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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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Elopement Photographer Kit

Elopement Planning

Everything I Carry So You Don’t Have To There’s a moment at nearly every wedding or elopement where something goes sideways. Not catastrophically. Just enough to send a ripple of stress through an otherwise perfect day. At one event I used toupee tape on a mother of the bride whose boob tape had completely given […]

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Couple together on a rocky overlook in Rocky Mountain National Park during their Colorado elopement, with mountain peaks stretching across the background.

Rocky Mountain National Park Elopement

Locations

What It’s Really Like There is something about Rocky Mountain National Park that gets into your bones. I first hiked these trails as a kid at summer camp, and I have been coming back every year since. When couples ask me where to elope in Colorado, RMNP is always part of that conversation. A Rocky […]

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Bride and groom hold hands while reading their vows during an intimate wedding ceremony at Garden of the Gods in Colorado.

Should we Elope? The Real Pros and Cons No One Talks About

Elopement Planning

Getting engaged is exciting until someone asks where you’re having the wedding. Then you start to think about the venue, catering, guest list, timeline, budget. And somewhere in the middle of all that, a quiet voice asking: is this actually what we want? If you’re here, you’re probably listening to that voice, as you should. […]

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