{"id":4697,"date":"2022-03-10T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espacestudio.ca\/backyard-wedding-sites-from-gardens-to-glass-houses-lavender-magazine\/"},"modified":"2022-03-10T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T08:00:00","slug":"backyard-wedding-sites-from-gardens-to-glass-houses-lavender-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espacestudio.ca\/en\/backyard-wedding-sites-from-gardens-to-glass-houses-lavender-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Backyard Wedding Sites: From Gardens to Glass Houses | Lavender Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When two people decide to embark on a new life together, there\u2019s always cause for celebration. While media (both past and present) feeds us the idea of a grand wedding fit for royalty, the realities of hosting and paying for these kinds of events gives many couples pause. People want a day they will always remember, a day they set aside to celebrate their love with their family and friends\u2014not necessarily one that\u2019ll put them thousands of dollars in debt. Enter the micro-wedding (also called a mini-mony), a new craze that helps couples find the balance between the elegant and the economical.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to be a small traditional venue,\u201d says Carolyn Germaine, Co-Founder of Backyard Wedding Sites, along with Louise Nyquist. \u201cWe\u2019re not talking about repeating all the pieces of a big wedding. We\u2019re just going to do a ceremony\u2014you might have champagne and cake afterward or you might bring in a caterer, if you have 40 people or more.\u201d The official standard for a micro-wedding is less than 50 people and gives the couple much more flexibility with the itinerary.<\/p>\n

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Thank of BWS as a sort of Airbnb for private wedding venues, a service that connects like-minded couples with a site that fits their personalities, vision and budget. It started in 2019, when an engaged Germaine started looking for a private garden where they could throw a small wedding ceremony. She didn\u2019t want something overly traditional, but was still hoping for something more special and private than a public park. She figured somebody must\u2019ve conceptualized this already, and that it\u2019d be as simple as a Google search.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI thought that list has to exist!\u201d Germaine says. \u201cAnd so I\u2019m looking all over for it and, lo and behold, it doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d Fast forward: it\u2019s after the wedding, and she\u2019s contemplating this conundrum: How can couples seeking a non-traditional local wedding venues browse them on a user-friendly interface? Why doesn\u2019t this exist? And why couldn\u2019t she be the one to create it? While putting some feelers out to local gardeners, she met Louise Nyquist, who was immediately on board.<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Carolyn Germaine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u00a0\u201cThere are people who are disenfranchised that need a place,\u201d Nyquist explains. \u201cThat\u2019s what we really wanted to rise to, is offer more places for smaller venues, for a smaller [carbon] footprint. So, people could really enjoy their company, the people that mean most to them.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

For these two women, that environmental aspect is key.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Carolyn Germaine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

According to Kate Harrison\u2019s\u00a0The Green Bride Guide: How to Create an Earth-Friendly Wedding on Any Budget<\/em>, the average nuptials creates about 400 pounds of garbage and 63 tons of\u00a0CO2<\/sub>. When you consider that approximately 2.5 million weddings take place every year in the U.S., those numbers reach astronomical proportions. As longtime environmental advocates, Germaine and Nyquist wanted to create a company that did its part to decrease those impacts. And so BWS was born, which offers both green and Covid-conscious wedding experiences.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are people who are going to want larger weddings, medium-sized weddings and smaller weddings,\u201d Carolyn concedes. \u201cWe just recognize that we\u2019re filling a void between public weddings and traditional venues.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Photo courtesy of Carolyn Germaine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The world and its goods and services are changing. For those of us looking for more unique, fun and oft-budget-friendly lodgings, we have services like Airbnb and Hipcamp. Same goes for BWS, which caters to the creative and environmentally conscious set. Not to mention those non-traditional couples looking for a totally inclusive venue: \u201cWe embrace weddings of all race, religion and sexual orientation,\u201d adds Germaine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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