CIARA & CHRIS

“We were so lucky to have you. Everything looked incredible and we had the most magical of times, created by you.”

An easy delight of a micro-wedding back in difficult times

An At-Home Micro-Wedding by the sea

Some days feel like they’re always meant to be small, and Ciara & Chris’s Dublin micro‑wedding was exactly that kind of day. When it became clear that lockdown restrictions were going to linger far longer than anyone hoped, they decided not to wait for a bigger party, and instead leaned into the beauty of a celebration at home. With the ceremony in Chris’s much‑loved family garden and dinner in the high‑ceilinged reception rooms, it felt intimate, layered and completely theirs.

We came on board so that Chris’s family could be guests in their own home, not hosts juggling logistics in the background. That meant thinking about everything from guest flow through the house, to how the ceremony would feel as guests stepped into the garden, to the tiny touches that make a family space feel just a little bit elevated for a wedding day.

Ciara grew up in West Cork and wanted to weave that wild, coastal energy through a very Dublin setting. The starting point was simple: the wildflowers that line every boreen at home. From there, the flowers became loose, textural and joyful, spilling off tables and sideboards in a way that felt like they’d just walked in from the fields.
Once florals set the tone, the rest of the design followed. We built a palette around soft, buttery creams and vivid, garden‑bright colour, with stationery quietly nodding to one of Chris’s favourite things in the world – a classic Victoria sponge. On the tables, we echoed the house itself: eclectic, warm, a little mismatched in the best possible way, as if every candlestick and glass had a story.
The result was a day that never tried to pretend it was anything other than what it was: a small, heartfelt celebration in a home that holds a lifetime of memories, dressed just enough to mark the occasion but never so much that it felt like a set. Those are our favourite kinds of weddings – the ones that feel like an extension of real life, just with better flowers and a very good excuse to open the special bottles.