Our Minimalist & Sustainable Wedding The Story

Congratulations

Good for you two .... you know who you are. Beautiful photographs, and you couldn't beat the price! Awesome!

Thank you for sharing. I think what you did was just perfect. The question of how to deal with toxic family members when it comes to weddings can be super stress provoking. My husband and I have one daughter and I can’t imagine what it will be like if she ever decides to get married. We have several very toxic family members. My husband and I have been married for over 30 years, however, I have been completely rejected by my husband’s family. They do not acknowledge my existence yet my husband continues to interact with them. Can’t really imagine what I will do at a wedding with them present. Obviously it will be up to my daughter and her partner to decide what kind of wedding they want and I will 100% respect their wishes but I’m having difficulty getting my head around how it will go if my husband’s family is present. Namaste.

What a beautiful story! Thank you for sharing 😊

woow the photooos

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Most beautiful pictures I've ever seen. Gorgeous and very memorable 🎉

I’m from Southern California where we have a severe never ending water shortage. In the 70’s we were told not to flush the toilet at night. So recycling paper and plastic makes more sense than wasting tons of water washing dishes. Think globally. If you’re one of those people patting yourself on the back for driving an electric car do some research. Electricity is made with coal which is a brutal industry to the environment and people and finally Johanna all this flying around the world, how big is your carbon footprint.? No patience with virtue signaling.

I think you put the arrows on your cover page so you wouldn’t puff yourself up above your husband. You are so Swedish! Me too!
I do think it’s OK for a bride to soar on her wedding day. The groom soars because he is marrying the most beautiful woman in the room.

I wish I had found this video (or something like it) 11 years ago. Thank you so much for this!

What a wonderful story. Well done ! The pictures taken later on in this manner : perfect.

Not allowing toxic people to interfere with our most precious moments seems like an obvious thing to do but this goes on everywhere as we cater to traditions that favor appearance and concerns that have nothing to do with the two persons getting married. Stress, huge spending, crazy logistics, catering to guests' idiosyncrasies and self obsession : why would anyone subject to that today ?!

The focus was you and me together, joy and intimacy. What else ?

Saga, you are so wise! We did the same wedding with parents and the closest friends. We saved on banquet but invited the best photographer. After 20 years, we are still together. If I need to repeat the wedding, I do the same. ❤❤❤

Toxic Families? Some things tell me the families have legitimate concerns such as the families living in different countries and the possibility of their their child or loved one relocating... and if travel restrictions are a result of war it would be like experiencing a death in the family. Then there's religion... some religions tolerate polygamy. Then there's the enthusiasm of a minimalist lifestyle... are you doing that to appease an impoverished spouse or if it is to eliminate clutter and stay organized will it develop into a obsessive compulsive behavior that deprives your spouse. Then there is the topic of that ring... it looks like it came out of a luck charms cereal box. Seems like the families are concerned about deprivation from every angle imaginable while the couple is fixated on sexual appetite and nothing more... except interior design of a minimalist which entails taking a room and making it empty.

Kinda like im 35 never married and like if I was to then it World be werry low key and minimalist sermoni , Cheers to you tow❤

😅 my dream

婚禮是一種祝福，但應該要在兩個人都覺得幸福的儀式中舉行
如果是傳統繁文縟節的方式舉行
可能是讓人覺得厭煩的方式
而且很多人都在這樣的儀式中進行磨合爭吵
好像真的沒有必要～～

Beautiful ❤❤🎉

Seems like you've made the best decision ❤❤❤😊I love that you shared it and the story behind it, thank you.💗 and your pictures are incredibly beautiful! I had a non traditional wedding too 😊

You have beautiful pictures of the both of you. Does not matter when they were taken. You are married, so that is what counts. The Lord will bless your family you have created.🙏😄❤️

I love your dress!!

My wedding dress came from a thrift store, we had it professionally cleaned, flowers from a silk greenery outlet and my aunt made the cake, photos were taken by whomever.

Absolutely perfect! We did a similar thing and my dress was $12 clearance, flowers I did myself, very minimal. Our rings were from a Art Show.

Congratulations girl 🎉🎉🎉
I wish you a lot of success and progress in your new life and new adventure ✨️ ❤
Thank you for sharing your beautiful journey with us .
This is just the beginning of a very beautiful journey 👌🎊🤠

Beautiful ❤

How interesting (and funny) that our "wedding stories" are so similar! Just like you and your husband, we have troubled family lives and we didn't really care if any of our families will attend. We arrived in the U.S.A., went to the courthouse in the town we lived in and scheduled to be married the next week. My family was in Poland, my husband's family 3 long days of driving away. We told them, but of course they didn't have time /or initiative to come and join us. I bought my dress in Poland, so I already had that. It was a simple ceremony with only 3 friends. My husband likes to joke that it was the best $35 he ever spent 😉. We soon left for our honeymoon/camping adventure in the western part of the U.S.A. (in an old Toyota Pickup). While on that trip I bought another "wedding dress" in a thrift shop in Arizona and Steve, my husband took some photos of me in that dress in the desert (probably the coolest photo shoot I've ever done, I am not a professional model though). Later, about 3 years later, we decided to have a "real" wedding photo shoot and instead of hiring a photographer we used a tripod. We chose a beautiful, old fort on the Atlantic coast beach for the location. I used the same thrift shop dress and bought some flowers. We made an all day adventure out of that! Of course we had to take many, many photos to have a few that turned out well, since you can imagine that without a photographer sometimes we would stand in the wrong place or get in the shot too late (for the camera timer)😅 It was a lot of work, but we got a few (probably 15-20) really awesome photos that we'll treasure forever... By the way, what a wonderful wedding photo shoot you and your husband had... Amazing location! Wow! You both look stunning!!!

So beautiful! We also had a vegan wedding in 2018, relatively small in my husbands' small home town. It was magical, and many of the guests still talk about it as the best wedding they have ever been to. Love from Norway. :)

Very beautiful

Saga. A while ago a you mentioned that you were saving to buy a house. A friend of mine didn't have money to buy a house so bought a barn in Brittany France and made it into living space. Would that work for you?

I'm a Catholic/Orthodox traditionalist when it comes to Marriage - particularly when I am getting Married. I'm also a childless widower and she was a fellow Catholic. My fiancee is Russian Orthodox and when we get Married, I want it to be a good small Church Wedding without too much showy, expensive, material costing fanfare afterwards. I wish you two made one well in your Married life together, and I look forward to seeing another one of your videos!

Wonderful to hear you married.. 💐❤️
All the best !

I really appreciate your valuable and open remarks.. and it's so inspiring and good to hear how you overcome toxic environments and realise something of your own which is respectful and based on love. I think this is so important because people tend to step in the pathways set and do things the way they experienced them.. of course I write this without judgement because I can imagine that it must be very difficult to break out of toxicity because childhood and youth forms us so much. Still, we do not have to bring the trauma from past relationships into the new ones. I really like your open dialogue on this and I'm happy to see how you two question what you experienced/ learned to be the right way and create the environment which suits you.. if it comes to living, travelling, marrying..
Such a good contribution.. I wished you had more people listening..

Grattis 😊😊

Twenty one years ago we invited 9 of our closest friends and family to a late summer gazebo in a public park for our wedding. My dress was a black gauze with fall colors, and my new husband wore a brandywine shirt with black jeans. It was very simple with no food. I believe that it is not about the wedding but the marriage and relationship that two people share. Your picture shoot was absolutely gorgeous and the fact that you did it three years after the original, if I understood you correctly, is the proof of at least the start of a great marriage. May your lives be intertwined, yet separate, and may you grow old as we have together. This grandma approves 💕

Such a beautiful and down-to-earth couple. Thank you for sharing your heartwarming story with us.

What a beautiful dress

You shared some really interesting ideas!

Congratulations!!

I absolutely ADORE this perspective and action-approach, Saga! So simple, so luxurious and truly a wedding-personified. THIS is the true definition of love, union and marriage; I am so inspired by it, and you -- to celebrate any occasion through a quintessential, personal lens!

Absolutely stunning. Gorgeous photos and clothing. I’m so happy for you both. Congratulations!!!🎉

Que bonito video, al final una boda debe ser al gusto de los novios, felicidades

Thank you Saga the photos were really beautiful. People with okay families dont always understand families where there are problems and I admire the way the two of you fitted in with your own circumstances. I am much older but your ideas may well suit younger family members. Bless your marriage.

This was the attitude of my grandfather and my father. My Grandfather was first generation born here in the USA. He married a first generation Swedish lady. He had this no waste about everything. No extravagant spending or usage anywhere. My Grandfather had a very correct view of everything is limited in its' existence here on earth. He was a farmer that was all about saving natural resources when possible. My Dad was like that as well. He let that morph into being quite a penny pincher as well. That just about drove my Mother crazy. He let it morph into his political views as well. That put him squarely in the path of being bamboozled by the narrative of the robber barons.

Hey Saga! I'm so glad to hear this news, I wish you a lot of happiness!! I really appreciate your ideas and lifestyle.
I think minimalist people are doing a great job of curbing the global warming that threatens our future, or delaying it until a permanent solution is found.
Happiness is not found in material stuffs, but in social relationships and goals. We should avoid consumption that is not really necessary. Of course, this will be reflected in our wallet as well :))

Lovely video and wedding photos!My partner and I got married last year with just our 4 kids, one of our son’s girlfriends and our 3 dogs. We rented a house for a weekend on Lake Michigan and got married on the patio. Each of the kids contributed to making the wedding happen. Best of all it has inspired our teen age/young adult kids to consider sustainable and minimal weddings for themselves.

I love this so much! My family is very messy and we ended up eloping to Paris and hired a photographer. No regrets :) Came back home and got "legally" married at the court house and then had a small reception with family a couple months later at a wildlife conservation.

Great video! Simple Wedding ist the best.
We had a corona wedding with 15 people in total and a barbecue in my mamas backyard. It was the best day ever! It reflected us how we are…Simple, lovely and funny.❤
Do what you want and not what other people want!

I love this! Our wedding was very similar. We had 9 guests in attendance and invested in a great photographer. I'm glad to know that there are more likeminded people out there. The marriage after all is the most important part, not the wedding. ❤

Godmorgon! Thank you so much for sharing!

Kudos to you for making yourselves happy!!! 💪❤️😍

Thank you Saga. You have answered a load of my questions about you and your story. The photos are quite stunning and anyone would believe you are a super model from them. You have so much natural born beauty. Please keep sharing other parts of your story, for example what jobs you did in the various countries that you have lived, and how you came to live in them. Peace and joy to you both.🙂