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Real Colorado elopements, location guides, and practical planning help for Rocky Mountain National Park, Ouray, Telluride, Breckenridge, and beyond.

Eloping at Great Sand Dunes: A Practical Planning Guide

Locations

You can see the dunes from miles away on the drive in. Then you start walking, your feet sink into the sand, and you realize that the ridge you picked out is farther away than it looked. If you’re thinking about eloping at Great Sand Dunes, that’s a useful introduction. The views are worth the […]

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Bride and groom sit together in a canoe on a calm lake, the groom paddling while the bride smiles softly surrounded by flowers in Dillon, Colorado.

Colorado Elopement Without Hiking

Elopement Ideas

Let’s get one thing out of the way first: this post is not here to talk you out of a hike. If you want to spend your elopement day climbing a mountain, that is a beautiful choice and we can absolutely make it happen. This post is for everyone else. The couples who want to […]

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Bride and groom share their first kiss on the red rock formations at Garden of the Gods with sweeping Colorado mountain scenery and blue skies in the background.

Garden of the Gods Elopement

Locations

What to Know Before You Go Most couples who find Garden of the Gods on their venue research list have the same worry: it looks stunning in photos, but will it feel like a tourist attraction on the day they say their vows? That is a fair question, and it deserves a real answer. A […]

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Couple stands together on a rocky overlook during a winter elopement in Rocky Mountain National Park, surrounded by mountains and pine trees.

Rocky Mountain National Park Wedding Permit

Locations

What to Know Before You Apply Before you can finish your Rocky Mountain National Park wedding permit application, you need a date, a ceremony site, and a two-hour window. That sounds simple until you’re looking at the form thinking, “Wait, how do we know what time we want to get married when we haven’t planned […]

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Cassie Peterson is a Colorado elopement photographer based in Boulder, helping couples plan and photograph elopements in Rocky Mountain National Park, Ouray, Telluride, Breckenridge, and throughout the Colorado mountains.

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