Megan Young, Mikael Daez share tips on how to have a small yet meaningful wedding

Megan Young and Mikael Daez have shared some tips on how couples could achieve a small but meaningful wedding.

In their latest “Behind Relationship Goals” podcast, the Kapuso couple, who tied the knot in an intimate ceremony in January 2020, gave some tips on how to have a small wedding amid the pandemic.

“I think people nowadays are open to just getting married in city hall, which is a stark contrast because couples are normally thinking, oh no let’s have this destination wedding or et cetera,” said Mikael.

“Now it has become more acceptable to a certain way [that they no longer feel the] pressure to have a certain kind of wedding,” he said.

Talk about what’s important

Mikael and Megan said the couple should have a conversation on what’s important in their wedding, be it the food, event, or the destination.

“For you and me, we had this conversation and the most important thing is we were getting together and we just want to celebrate that [even if it’s just us, it was OK, but of course] it was always nice to have our siblings and our moms there,” said Megan.

The couple said they already had an idea of what type of wedding they wanted early in their relationship.

Have a criteria on who you would invite

“My opinion on this is I personally had confidence in the people whom I love that just because they weren’t invited to that church wedding didn’t mean that our relationship, and friendship with each other is going to end,” Mikael said.

“That’s how much confidence I had in this inner circle that I had. ‘Dude I love you but this is the wedding that I want. We’re going to see each other, I’m still going to love you after this, but it’s just the way it is,’” he added.

Mikael said he had the “confidence [that] no matter who I invited and whom I didn’t invite, those who I love and those who love me back, it’s going to be the same, it’s not going to change just because of an invite or an invite that was not sent.”

Megan said they made a list a year before their wedding.

“Every month and so we would constantly go back and forth on the list. How important is this person in my life and how important am I to this person? Like, do they know about our relationship, do they know the details about us?” she said. “It’s nice to have people that know about the both of us.”

Megan said they both had different groups of friends and they wanted to invite people who “knew our relationship and us growing as a couple.”

Take out things that stress you out

Just because it’s tradition, it doesn’t mean you have to include it in your event.

For instance, Megan said she thought having an entourage would stress her out, which was why they decided not to have one.

The actress said thinking about each member of the entourage and checking if they were already present at the event would be stressful for her.

Megan said their priority was to focus on getting married, which was the number one thing, “because if we put our focus on something else, we would get stressed.”

Another thing they did away with was the group shots, where the couple had to take photos with people on each table before they could eat.

After their church wedding, their guests ate immediately at the reception.

Be creative

Small weddings may be the norm at the moment due to the pandemic, but Mikael said that should not stop couples from getting creative.

He said they could explore ideas that would work on a small group of people, such as getting married on a mountain, a pool party, and many more.

Creativity knows no boundaries, he said.

He also suggested creatively asking for e-wallet gifts through a QR code instead of tangible presents.

The Kapuso couple tied the knot after being in a relationship for more than eight years.

They had two wedding ceremonies, one in Batangas on Jan. 10, 2020, which had only 10 guests, and another on Jan. 25 at San Roque Church in Subic. – RC, GMA News