Kortney + Ben’s Telluride Adventure Wedding
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Kortney + Ben’s Telluride Adventure Wedding

As someone who shoots tons of destination weddings in remote places I always joke that the best way to tell if your people REALLY love you is by making your wedding an adventure to get to. NEVER has that been more true than with Kortney and Ben’s Telluride adventure wedding. Ben and Kortney moved to…

Beth + Joe’s Colorado Hiking Elopement
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Beth + Joe’s Colorado Hiking Elopement

Beth and Joe are criminology professors from St Louis who have been friends for over 20 years. They both LOVE the outdoors and the mountains so it only made sense for them to elope in the heart of the Rockies! I was SO stoked when they contacted me about working together for their Colorado hiking…

Questions to Ask Your Elopement Photographer
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Questions to Ask Your Elopement Photographer

As adventure elopements become more trendy it seems like every wedding photographer is trying to become an elopement photographer! And man, I get it! Every day in photography groups someone asks the question “I really want to start photographing adventure elopements! HOW do I get started?”. Its easy to understand why so many people want…

Winter Rocky Mountain National Park Adventure Session – Matthew and Sabrina
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Winter Rocky Mountain National Park Adventure Session – Matthew and Sabrina

Matthew and Sabrina came out to Colorado from Austin, Texas, to get married in our mountains! They had a beautiful wedding in Estes Park (stay tuned for pics from that!) but first we snuck in a quick winter Rocky Mountain National Park elopement style adventure session! It takes a special kind of crazy couple to…

Why I’m Bucking the Digital Trend
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Why I’m Bucking the Digital Trend

A little while back I wandered into my office and found my son sitting on the floor, flipping through a book he had pulled off a shelf. It was a little photo book that my mom had made for us a few years back with pictures of my childhood. My family at Disney. Fishing in…

Savannah + Dylan’s Snowy Intimate Colorado Wedding
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Savannah + Dylan’s Snowy Intimate Colorado Wedding

I’ll never forget the day that Savannah and Dylan first reached out about being their Estes Park wedding photographer. They told me that they were planning an intimate Colorado wedding with their closest family and friends – all of whom happen to be “crazy Cajuns”. A laid-back mountain wedding with a bunch of crazy Cajuns?…

6 Really Good Reasons to Elope (and one big reason NOT to)
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6 Really Good Reasons to Elope (and one big reason NOT to)

  Updated December 21, 2023 As a photographer who specializes in elopements and itty bitty intimate weddings I’m always curious about WHY my couples made the decision to skip the big wedding and elope instead. The reasons to elope are pretty much endless but here are a few of my favorites! Before we dive in,…

Jeff + Wendy’s Rocky Mountain National Park Elopement
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Jeff + Wendy’s Rocky Mountain National Park Elopement

Jeff and Wendy are a super fun, free-spirited couple who love dogs and skateboarding. They flew out to Colorado from their home in Houston, Texas, for their Rocky Mountain National Park elopement. I had an absolute blast being a part of their day! We began their day at the Estes Park Resort where they were…

How to Make Your Elopement Feel (Extra!) Special
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How to Make Your Elopement Feel (Extra!) Special

As a destination elopement photographer I spend a lot of time talking with my couples about planning their elopement and one of the questions I get asked the MOST is about how to make your elopement special. I hear people who KNOW eloping is the right choice for them – but they’re also a tiny…