We often hear that a wedding is about thanking and showing off the couple's closest friends and family members, which it certainly is, but young couples are urged not to forget that the wedding is ultimately only about you - so whether you celebrate it as a couple or with 100 guests, the most important thing is that everything is exactly how you wanted it to be.

LĪGAVĀM offers the experience of three brides on how to make your wedding even more special.

Without wedding rings

Wedding organizer Gunta Skalberga / Pop Up Sense celebrated her fifth wedding anniversary with her husband this summer. She has organized weddings for many years and admits that the most important thing she recommends to couples is

to do as you like. This applies to everything from the smallest details to the guest list.

The wedding day is not about the wishes of parents, friends and relatives, but about how the young couple imagined this day. For Gunta and her husband, one such, perhaps unconventional wish was the absence of wedding rings.

"The wedding ring is a tradition accepted in society and a certain kind of confirmation of the status of the relationship. I did not criticize this tradition in any way, but we had a mutual feeling that we do not need wedding rings in everyday life, because society does not have to prove anything.

In our opinion, the only thing that matters is the promise we made to each other and what we feel for each other," assured Gunta Skalberga.

The most special moment – wedding vows

Rebeka and Toms Liepiņi got married just last week. Moreover, they did it in a completely unconventional way - only they, the photographer and the pastor took part in the wedding ceremony. They all boarded a plane and flew from Latvia to Iceland to say their "YES" right there. Why? Because that was exactly what they both wanted.

"I think that the most special moment in both big and small weddings is the wedding vows, because what you say and do to the other person are not simple words that evaporate somewhere in the air.

These are words that are written in heaven and in the other person's heart for life. These are big and responsible words, so even before we wrote them, we thought a lot about what we were going to say, so that it really coincided with what we felt and thought. And we believe that if you stick to these words and also live according to what you promise, then you can go through all the difficulties and storms that will come in our lives," Rebekah is convinced.

Tourists as wedding guests

Rebecca says that despite the slightly unconventional concept, the wedding day went by very quickly. "Perhaps a little more difficult in our situation was that we had to do the make-up, the hair and everything from the smallest detail to putting on the dress ourselves. In the end, I managed well because everything was thought of in time - my sister had written me a whole essay on how to properly apply make-up. The first meeting followed, which mostly consisted of the moment when Tom grabbed me and didn't want to let me go.

But the ceremony itself, which I think is not easy for any couple to describe, will remain in the memory and is recorded in our hearts for life. Perhaps unusual for other weddings, although the ceremony was only for the two of us, there was no lack of spectators at all - there were several tourists who smiled and took many pictures and clapped when they should have clapped and were happy when we said our "YES" words to each other.

As the end of the evening for our wedding day, there were neither fireworks nor a path of miracle candles, but the northern lights, which were apparently given to us," recalls Rebecca. She points out that it was exactly the wedding day they both had dreamed of.

The most special moments from the wedding - time together

Make-up artist Viktorija Breakša and her husband Regnars got married this summer and admits that although they enjoyed the wedding day with their closest friends, the most special moments are associated with being alone.

"One of the most special moments on our wedding day was definitely the moment when my husband and I got into the car after the wedding ceremony and nobody bothered us all the way from Jelgava to Riga.

Also, another fantastic moment was when we both went to the hot tub. In addition, we specially did it naked so that no one would call us to dance or anything else. Those are the moments that I will always remember. As well as the morning preparation - although I was originally scheduled to have a make-up artist, I'll be honest - on the morning of the wedding I was sleepless, tired, annoyed and decided to do my own make-up. And maybe it was even better, because it also served as a meditation for me, that I would spoil myself for my husband," says Viktorija Breakša.

Photographers: LUCIJA ROŠANE, KRISTINE GRÍNVALDE , ALEXANDER PUZIY