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Real Colorado elopements, location guides, and practical planning help for Rocky Mountain National Park, Ouray, Telluride, Breckenridge, and beyond.
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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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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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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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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Everything You Need to Pack and Plan You’ve picked your location, booked your photographer, and now you need to make sure nothing gets forgotten on the actual day. This Colorado elopement checklist breaks down everything to pack and plan, section by section. (Grab the free printable PDF version at the bottom of this post.) Your […]
