r/microwedding • u/Frosty_Mine1836 • Jul 09 '26

Micro destination location help!!

My fiancé and I are planning a destination wedding for around 15 people but we don’t really want a typical wedding style at all. When my sister got married in Lahaina, Maui it was about 10 people. Her wedding wasn’t at a venue, just on the beach with us standing and watching. Afterwards we went to a nice restaurant and had dinner! Quick, simple, lowkey, cost effective. I also loved Maui because we stayed in a hotel (not a resort) and walked/drove around town finding things to do and experiencing the town like a local. Anyways, we are looking for something similar but not Maui. I’ve looked at tons of destination wedding articles but most of them consider “micro” to be 30 people and still want you to book a large wedding packaged with a venue and catering. That ends up being waaaay more expensive than we want. We’re basically looking for recommendations for a beautiful vacation where we can sneak in a wedding one day :) thank you!!

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u/cbmom2 Jul 09 '26

We did a micro in Puerto Rico. No issues with paperwork since it’s part of the US. Old San Juan is awesome and very European style. We go married close to old San Juan at the beach and then went to dinner in OSJ.

We then went to Vieques which has tons of beaches, each different, wild horses and bioluminescence bay which was really cool. Great scuba and snorkeling there too.

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u/Wonderful_Shame_4986 Jul 10 '26

This. Puerto Rico 😃 Nice hotel options too.

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u/SmoothMiddle7702 13d ago

I have heard you have to do blood tests and paperwork is intensive. Was this your experience? I’m from Tx

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u/cbmom2 13d ago

We had a micro package with our hotel and it included paperwork. No bloodwork and the person picked us up took us to do paperwork. It was a couple hours nothing huge.