It all STARTED WHEN MY TWO BESTIES ASKED ME TO BECOME A CELEBRANT SO I COULD MARRY THEM.
WHAT I DIDN’T KNOW WAS THAT ONE LITTLE “I DO” WOULD CHANGE THE COURSE OF MY LIFE.
WELL, HEY THERE.
I’M FRANKIE ORANGE — CELEBRANT, WEDDING CREATIVE + THE WOMAN BEHIND THE PETITE WEDDING CO.
And, somewhat predictably, I’m completely obsessed with weddings.
It all started when my two best friends, Jannah + Ry, asked me to become a celebrant so I could marry them.
I thought I was doing one very lovely thing for two people I adored.
Turns out, they accidentally changed my life.
I fell completely in love with it. The people. The stories. The big feelings. The tiny moments. Standing beside two humans on one of the biggest days of their lives + getting to tell their story.
And somewhere along the way, I started thinking about weddings themselves.
Why did everyone have to do them the same way?
Why did getting married automatically mean a hundred guests, a year of planning, seventeen spreadsheets + doing things simply because that’s what you do at a wedding?
Surely there had to be another way.
So I created one.
The Petite Wedding Co. started with a simple idea: weddings could be done differently.
Over the years, that idea has grown, changed + evolved right alongside me.
Today, Petite is home to everything from ten-minute legal weddings at The Registry Office, to completely bespoke ceremonies with me, beautifully planned Petite Wedding experiences + the occasional entire fucking hotel.
Different weddings for different lovers.
Because the wedding should fit the people getting married — not the other way around.
When I’m not marrying people or dreaming up increasingly elaborate ways for them to get married, I’m mama to one very cool kid, Maximilian, a celebrant + MC, a lover of excellent food, excellent parties + an excellent margarita. (I’m approximately 87% margarita.)
But mostly, I just really fucking love love.
Along the way, I’ve also collected an incredible bunch of humans from across the wedding industry — photographers, florists, musicians, venues, chefs + other ridiculously talented people who help me bring all these ideas to life.
So while I might be the orange-haired woman at the centre of this whole thing, The Petite Wedding Co. has never really been about me.
It’s about you two.
Your people. Your story. Your version of a wedding.
And making sure that however you choose to do it, it feels like yours.
xx Frank xx