Imagine this.
It’s the morning of your wedding. You start dreaming of what the day is going to hold for you. You think of the first time you see your significant other, who you’re going to celebrate with today, all the fun activities planned, and your heart is so full it feels like it could explode.
As you move throughout your wedding or elopement day, you try to take in as much as you can, but the day flies by and it’s already time to head home. Here’s the thing. Your wedding day is one of the BEST days of your life, and because it’s so special and monumental, the day is going to fly by in a blur, and the end is going to come much sooner than you wanted it to.
You deserve to remember your wedding day, including the parts you didn’t see.
You’re investing not only in someone to be there on your wedding day, but you’re investing in your memories. These memories of your wedding day deserve to be captured and remembered forever, even if you missed them the first time.
You want this day to last forever, and I can make that happen.
We’re not sure if we want a wedding or an elopement…
First of all, what is an elopement?
An elopement is an intimate, intentional, and meaningful wedding day that truly focuses on the couple. In other words, elopements are solely focused on the love + connection of you two.
Eloping in Colorado is one of the most intimate and intentional ways to start your married life together. Being in one of the most beautiful states in the country surrounded by sky-high mountains, evergreens and flowing rivers while trading your vows is an ethereal experience that I recommend to every engaged couple.
Contrary to popular belief, you CAN have guests at your elopement! Even I did! 20 guests or less is considered an elopement.
I specialize in curating a personal + intentional experience for my eloping couples, and promise to be your elopement guide and help you wherever you need.
Ready to elope?
We’re wanting a wedding!
Everyone has their idea of their dream wedding; an intimate Colorado mountain wedding, a huge party on the beach, and just about everything in between. I have shot PLENTY of weddings to know one piece of advice to give you: don’t settle on your wedding day. Do ALL of the crazy - creative - adventurous - wild things you want to do, because you’re only going to do it once.
Your wedding day is going to fly by in a blur, and I’ll be there to capture it all. Every tear, every belly-laugh, and every tiny moment you’ll want to remember forever.
I specialize in intimate settings, so the weddings I shoot are typically 75 guests or fewer. I am available for travel worldwide, and will fly wherever your heart desires for your big day!
Wedding bells ringing?
Yes, an elopement photographer who actually eloped!
There are infinite reasons I can list to you why my now husband, Ian, and I decided to elope. But first, let me tell you a bit about our perfect elopement weekend.
We traveled out to Crested Butte, CO with our families and closest friends for 5 days, and all stayed in a huge AirBnb together in the mountains. On our actual elopement day, we all woke up and had a big breakfast together, drank coffee, and watched the day wake up together. Ian and I said our goodbyes, and we went our separate ways. The AirBnb we stayed in actually had an apartment attached, so the boys went to the apartment, and the girls got ready in the main house.
As I got my hair and makeup done, we drank mimosas and ate charcuterie together. When we were all ready, I shared a first look with my dad, and then with Ian outside the front door of the house (which was a stunning view, look for yourself).
We then were sent off to elope by ourselves, and my dad even got to walk me down the “aisle” to our getaway car. We traveled to a lake and shared a private, personal. and emotional ceremony together, without an officiant, and our photographer was our only witness.
After exploring the mountains a bit more and letting it sink in that we were officially MARRIED, we went back to the house, where we ate pizza and cupcakes, had a bonfire, soaked in the hot tub, and had a good ass time together.
From someone whose actually done it, here’s why we decided to elope, and why we’re glad we did.
we wanted an intimate, nature based setting.
Ian and I are biiiiig nature buffs. We wanted to get married somewhere where the scenery took your breath away. For us, Crested Butte was the winner. We would much rather spend time outdoors than in a ballroom, so that made the most sense to us.
We also only wanted about 17 people in attendance. Yup, you can elope and still have guests! We invited our immediate families and our closest friends that we couldn’t imagine our day without.
We wanted a stress-free wedding experience.
Fun fact, Ian was a wedding DJ in college! He DJ’d over 100 weddings, so with both of us having LOTS of experience in the wedding industry, we started to notice patterns through our experience. A lot of stress went into this one day, and a lot of the times, the couple didn’t get to have as much fun as everyone else did. We did not want to worry about details and making sure things ran smoothly on our day. We didn’t want ANYONE to stress or worry about anything, but only to have a good time. The more pieces you add to the puzzle (ie, the more people you invite), the more complicated it becomes, and then you end up inviting people you don’t even want to be there, and that’s not at all what we wanted.
We value experiences over things.
Ian and I would MUCH rather spend our hard earned money on memories and experiences than material things. For this wedding weekend, we were able to house our closest people and give us and them a 5 day weekend to remember forever. We got to spend an extended amount of time soaking in the mountains, and being with our favorite people in the world.
We did NOT go into this experience hoping to save money. We just put the funds we WOULD have spent on a traditional wedding towards things that genuinely made us happy.
