So me and my gf are planning wedding ideas (engagement is going to happen soon like before the end of the year) and we don’t want to do a 300 person south Asian style wedding due to not wanting that many people and not agreeing with the bows that feel as if they were written in the 1820s. So we’re planning on doing a micro wedding which was originally just going to be our immediate family as in no cousins or aunts or uncles, just immediate family. Then it evolved to having a few friends like 3 for each of us. Then it evolved into family, friends and spouses.

Our micro wedding is consisting of everyone getting ready at the venue, first looks, the actual ceremony, pictures with me and the soon to be wife and the family and friends then a first dance, possibly a speech, and then lunch or dinner depending on when we have the wedding.

Our original plan was to go to the mountains with the family to have them get to know each other since my parents haven’t met her parents. Which then evolved into the family and friends and then evolved into family friends and spouses. My parents don’t think it’s a god idea as there will be a clear divide between the friends and parents as two groups will form with nothing in common and that tour friends have never taken us anywhere with them so why should we

What are your thoughts and opinions on this. Do you agree that it should just be family only in the mountains or do you think it would make for a great time. All the 6 friends and 3 spouses (3 are not married) are out of state and would be traveling down. Just trying to gauge this idea