By Maureen Thomson | Elopement Tips & Advice
One reason that some couples hesitate to consider an intimate “just us” ceremony is because they fear hurting the feelings of unincluded family members. There’s not much benefit–and potentially quite a bit of harm–from swapping pre-wedding day stress for post-wedding day stress. At least the former has an ending date; the latter could go on […]
Continue readingBy Maureen Thomson | Colorado Elopement , Telluride Elopement , Winter Elopement
Brooke and Andrew live in Fort Collins, Colorado, so their Telluride elopement was not technically a destination wedding. However, a seven hour drive from home allowed them to have the feel of a getaway while still being married in their home state–a place near and dear to their hearts. And really, just because you live […]
Continue readingBy Maureen Thomson | Colorado Elopement , Elopement Tips & Advice
Some sites–like Maroon Bells in Aspen–can be tricky. They’re terribly crowded in summer and fall and inaccessible in winter. This gives us a very narrow window of time to take advantage of such sites.The question I get most often from eloping couples is “where are the best places to elope in Colorado?” And my answer is […]
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Scotty and Blaine rank up there in my Top 10 Favorite Couples of All Time so I took it quite personally when Mother Nature decided to get persnickety and interfere with their early spring elopement at Lookout Mountain. The weather was so bad that airports were closed across the Midwest and the two couldn’t even get […]
Continue readingBy Maureen Thomson | California Bay Area Elopement , California Elopement , San Francisco City Hall Elopement , San Francisco Elopement
Josh and Lisette wanted to be married at San Francisco City Hall amid its glorious architecture. But they also wanted photos around and about the city showcasing them at some of our fabulous icons. Piece of cake! We put together a San Francisco City Hall elopement package that included extra photo shooting time throughout the city. […]
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Jenni and Ben met in high school. But their lives after school were destined to take different paths…at least for a bit. Fast forward 20 years and Jenni, a divorced mom of two girls and Ben–a divorced dad with a son–reconnected. (Gotta love Facebook!) And the rest, as they say… Having both done the big wed-a-palooza with […]
Continue readingBy Maureen Thomson | Breckenridge Elopement , Colorado Elopement , Winter Elopement
It was a case of Cupid presenting himself via modern technology that brought Ashley and Lee together (via Facebook, of course) in early 2017. Fast forward 20 months and their Colorado winter elopement became a reality. Winter weddings can be tricky (I speak from personal experience–my own anniversary date is December 18th). It takes a certain […]
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When you’re on vacation in New Orleans and you bump into someone with whom you went to high school in Texas 18 years earlier, you know it’s gotta be fate. And so it was fate that led Kylie and Jack to their snowy Colorado wedding on a glorious sunny day in January.Having always dreamed of a […]
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“An intimate wedding not only gave us an opportunity to celebrate coming together as husband and wife with the closeness and realness we wanted without all the big wedding distractions, but it also was so budget friendly it was hard to think about doing anything else. We can take the money we saved and spend […]
Continue readingBy Maureen Thomson | California Bay Area Elopement , California Elopement
When Jocelyn contacted me in September of last year to talk about her vision of a San Francisco Bay Area destination wedding, she indicated she and Garrett were seeking a dramatic cliff overlook. “No toes in the sand,” she directed me. We connected them with the location that fulfilled their every desire just north of San […]
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