Are you ready to think out of the box and create a complete experience for your Elopement, Micro Wedding or Wedding day? These 100 activity ideas can help you plan a unique to you experience that you love, full of lasting memories you never want to forget. Whether it be incorporating bucket list items such as skydiving or favorite past times such as wine tasting – do not hesitate to create the day of your dreams.

Gone are the days where a traditional wedding is the only option. From Adventure Elopements, Wedding Weekends and Destination Weddings to Eloping on the Oregon Coast and any other variation – the sky really is the limit to your Wedding or Elopement.

Celebrate your special day

At it’s heart, what makes your day special and important is that you are marrying your best friend. However what makes your wedding day even more special special is celebrating this moment in your relationship. You don’t want to just legally get married and call it a day. This is meant to be a special day and your marriage is worth celebrating!! The question is how do you two wish to celebrate? What do you love to do? What is special to you?

Create your ‘Must Have’ list

If your day is not going to feel complete or special without a first dance, and sharing dessert together – no problem! Reception or not, those activities are easily accomplished in a variety of ways! If including all your family and friends is a huge must on your day – then include them all! Your day should be unique and special to you both. It is great to have your ‘must have’ list determined from the start and if you haven’t yet, now is a great time to chat with your fiancé about your combined ‘must haves’ for your wedding day. What will make it special for you both? Once you have your list, bring these ideas to your planner, photographer and full vendor team. They can definitely help in bringing your dreams to life!

Create your Dream Day list

At this time you ideally have your ‘Must Haves’ list that you have created with your partner. Great! Now it’s time for one more list to create with your partner. For this list, you get to answer the question: What would be the most amazing day together? What would be included? What would it look like? I refer to this as your ‘Dream Day’ list because it can be so fun to brainstorm together and see what your joint dream day could look like.

Now that you have two lists – your ‘Must Haves’ list when you think of your wedding day and then your ‘Dream Day’ list when given free reign on what an awesome day together could look like… do you see overlap? Do you see ways to incorporate part or all of your dream day list into your wedding day? Or perhaps some other variation?

Permission to Focus on You

I want to take a moment to mention, in case it has not already been mentioned to you during your planning process, do know that you should be able to have whatever kind of wedding day that you both want. This is meant to be a celebration for you. You have permission to focus on you. You can include or not include guests of your choice. Truly – your wedding day is about you both and any compromising that may be taking place is hopefully between you two only. 😉

Incorporating True-to-You Activities into your Day

Planning your day with your lists in hand will hopefully shed an entirely new light on what your unique wedding day can look like and include. By keeping your dream day activities in mind, you can begin seeing how you can incorporate them into your day while not compromising your must haves (ideally). Of course, compromises may have to be made here and there but do not hesitate to reach out to your vendor team when it comes to brainstorming how to incorporate some unique activities. I especially love helping couples create their dream day! There is usually a way! 🙂

Choose activities that you two love! Have your own adventure – whatever that may look like! Have you always wanted to go sailing? Include a captained sailing trip or do a sunset cruise! Do nostalgic arcade games, sharing an ice cream sundae and taking a sunset stroll sound like the best activities to add to your day? Do it! Looking for gorgeous vistas but not interested in a hike? Not a problem! There are always some vista options with little to no hiking required. If your dream includes more than what you can feasibly fit into your actual wedding day, then include it in the honeymoon or turn your wedding day into a wedding weekend with loved ones! The options are endless!

Quick Note:

The activities below are ideas that can be incorporated into your day, day after, weekend, or more. What you will not see listed are the ‘traditional’ activities that make up an Elopement or wedding day (Prep, First Look, Ceremony, etc.). For complete Timeline examples, see further below.

100 Activities for your Elopement or Wedding Day

1. Air Tour
2. Amusement Park/Fair
3. Arcade Fun Time
4. Backpacking Trip
5. Bar Hopping
6. Beach walk
7. Bicycle Ride
8. Bird Watching
9. Board Games/Game time
10. Boating
11. Boogie-Boarding
12. Brewery Tour
13. Bungie Jumping
14. Campfire time
15. Camping Weekend
16. Champagne Pop & Toast
17. Chase Waterfalls
18. Dance in the rain
19. Deep-sea fishing
20. Dirt Biking
21. Drive-In Movie Theater
22. Ecotourism
23. Enjoy Dessert Together
24. Escape Room
25. Explore a National Park
26. Farm to Table Experience
27. Farm U-Pick
28. Ferry Ride
29. First Dance
30. Fishing
31. Float Plane ride
32. Geocaching
33. Get Couple’s Tattoos
34. Glass blowing
35. Go-karts
36. Golfing
37. Guided Experience
38. Guided Hike
39. Hang Gliding
40. Happy Hour
41. Helicopter Ride
42. Hiking
43. Horseback Ride
44. Hot Air Balloon Ride
45. Hot Springs
46. Hot Tub time
47. Ice Skating
48. Jet Skiing
49. Karaoke
50. Kayaking
51. Kite Boarding
52. Laser Tag
53. Listen to a Live Band
54. Live Wedding Painting
55. Microbrew Tasting
56. Motorcycle Ride
57. Mountain Biking
58. Off-roading
59. Paintball
60. Picnic
61. Play Mini-Golf
62. Popcorn & a Movie
63. Private Tour of Scenic Location
64. River Float on an Inner Tube
65. River/boat Cruise
66. Road Trip
67. Rock Climbing
68. Roller Skating
69. Romantic Getaway in an Airbnb
70. Sailing
71. Scavenger Hunt
72. Scooter Ride
73. Scuba Diving
74. Share a meal together
75. Sight-seeing
76. Skateboarding
77. Skiing
78. Skinny dipping
79. Skydiving or i-fly
80. Sleigh Ride
81. Snorkeling
82. Snowboarding
83. Snowshoeing
84. Stand up Paddle Boarding (SUP)
85. Stargazing
86. Stay in a Treehouse
87. Stroll through a Park
88. Sunrise watching
89. Sunset watching
90. Surfing
91. Swimming
92. Train Ride
93. Voluntourism
94. Wake Boarding
95. Water Skiing
96. Whale Watching Tour
97. Whitewater Rafting
98. Wind Surfing
99. Wine Tasting
100. Zip Lining

Example Timelines

Not sure how to incorporate some of these into an Elopement or Intimate Wedding day? Here at Myrtle Creative Co., I love working with you to put together Itinerary ideas for your specific day and I Would love to chat! Here are some example timelines to get you started:

Example Timeline for the Oregon Coast

Specific example for August on the Oregon Coast with couple and approximately 8 guests.

3:45PM	Groom Prep
4:05PM	Bride Prep
4:25PM	Bride to be getting into dress by
4:40PM	Groom to be at First Look location
4:45PM	First Look, followed by couples’ photos
5:00PM	Bride + Groom to have a few moments prior to ceremony for final touch up. Great time to hydrate, have a snack and refresh
5:10PM	Ceremony begins at beach in front of Airbnb
5:30PM	Ceremony complete approx.,
5:35PM	Signing of Marriage Certificate
5:40PM	Fun group photos with friends
5:55PM	Time to bustle dress if needed. Prep for dinner.
6:00PM	Dinner!
6:30PM	Toasts!
6:45PM	Prep for departing the Airbnb
6:50PM	Groom + Bride to Depart Airbnb for other beach location
7:00PM	Arrive other beach location for sunset adventure time. >First Dance above the ocean >Explore the sand dunes >Watch your first sunset together as husband and wife >Walk on the beach and have fun!
7:57PM	Sunset
8:00PM	Groom + Bride to Head back to Airbnb (approx.)
8:06PM	Arrive back at Airbnb to re-join guests >Dessert with friends! >Sparkler time on the back deck with friends! >Change and relax for beach campfire time with friends!
8:45PM	Official end of Photography time

Example Timeline for Sedona, AZ

Specific example for October with couple and guests throughout a full day and day after sunset adventure session.

6:00AM	Photography time begins Hot air balloon liftoff location >Sunrise hot air balloon ride begins with couple only >Bring a breakfast picnic!
6:30AM	Sunrise
9:30-10:00AM	Sunrise Hot air balloon ride ends approximately >Celebratory champagne toast upon completion
10:30AM	Return to Prep area for break + perhaps a nap *Photographer leaves you at this time to rejoin in early afternoon so you can fully relax!
12:00PM	Lunch!
2:00PM	*Photographer returns! Prep Time >Swap between each of you
3:00PM	First Look!
3:15PM	Prep for off-road tour before Ceremony with guests
3:30PM	Picked up by Pink Jeeps for off road tour/trip to ceremony site
4:30PM	Ceremony at designated location
5:00PM	Ceremony complete, approximately. Pink Jeeps pick-up and continue tour with guests to sunset location
6:00PM	Arrive to sunset location by this time
6:20PM	Sunset
6:30PM	Back in the jeep to return to town for dinner!
7:00PM	Dinner with guests!
7:30PM	Toasts!
7:45PM	First Dance under twinkle lights
7:50PM	Gather guests for sparkler photo fun to end the evening.
8:00PM	Official end of Photography time
Day After
3:30PM	Meet up at trailhead for sunset hike in the red rock
3:45PM	Begin hiking >Make sure to have headlamp, water, dinner snacks >Change of clothes, layers
4:00-5:30PM	Along the hike up we will stop for some photos, and enjoy the scenery.
6:00PM	Enjoy dinner snacks at the top, refresh and explore while enjoying golden hour and sunset time.
6:20PM	Sunset
6:30-6:40PM	Begin hiking back down
7:30PM	Return to parking lot and say goodbye! Official end of Photography Time

Example Timeline for SW Washington at a Farmstay

Specific example for October with couple only and vendor team at Thiselle Creek Farmstay yurt airbnb.

3:00PM	Photography time begins Couple’s Prep together
4:00-4:15PM	Ceremony
4:20PM	Champagne pop!
4:25PM	Roam around the farm
4:45PM	Groom + Bride to depart to nearby river/bridge area to explore
5:00PM	Time to explore! >Check out the bridge, waterfall and riverside
5:45PM	Head back to Airbnb Yurt
6:00PM	Return to yurt Airbnb to relax >Desserts >Song time (these two are musicians and singing to each other was the sweetest thing and something they wanted to include.)
6:23PM	Sunset
6:30PM	Change into cozy clothes for continued relaxing time >Wine + snacks >Cozy game time! >Enjoy popcorn and get ready for a movie night.
7:00PM	End of Photography Time

Next Step

I hope this has been helpful to you for your own day! Whether you are planning a snowy winter elopement that includes snowshoeing to a hot springs, or a summer beach wedding that includes ‘beach hopping’ and exploring all there is to offer in the area of your choice – do it! And also, don’t hesitate to let your vendors know you want to do something unique and chat about some options.

And finally, do bring your photographer along (me)! 😉 You don’t want to miss out on having these special moments captured and I love being your unofficial tour guide as needed! Are you ready to chat about ideas for your day? Would love to put together custom examples for you! Reach out here. Ready to plan your Elopement or Intimate Wedding Day? Check out my Four Step Elopement Guide here.

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