A Quiet Case for the Smaller Wedding

At sixty guests, you can seat everyone within sight of the ceremony fire. You can serve a menu that was actually cooked rather than assembled. You can afford a level of material quality that would be impossible at scale.

Smaller weddings also change the schedule. There is time for a long breakfast, an unplanned afternoon, a second round of speeches nobody prepared. Those are the hours couples describe to us years later.

None of this is an argument against a large wedding. It is an argument for deciding the size deliberately, rather than inheriting it from an invitation list nobody edited.