Coronado Beach elopement at sunset. A bride and groom at the sand dunes.
Bride and groom holding hands, gazing at the park scenery during Joshua Tree elopement.
bride and groom during ceremony in oahu beach elopement

Chrissy and Alec traveled from my home state of Texas for their Oahu beach elopement! I love their story – they graduated from the same high school, but didn’t know each other until meeting in college! I’m always amazed when couples tell me they went to the same high school together but didn’t meet there. […]

Erika and Nick had a life long love story that lead to their Hawaii adventure wedding. They were just 10 years old when they met at school. They were paired together in class forĀ  an “icebreaker” exercise to interview each other. Erika said she was secretly hoping she would be paired up with Nick, and […]

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Adventure Elopement in Hawaii | Rachel + Patrick This couple right here is the definition of adventurous, and untraditional. We hit up my two favorite locations for adventure sessions which was like DREAM DAY for me. They wanted to do things a little different. So they had their first dance at a lookout, before hiking […]

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Utah Elopement Photographer | Mai + Dustyn Mai and Dustyn are two of my fav people. I originally met them when they were living in Hawaii and they actually helped kick off my adventure photography career by modeling in an elopement styled shoot for me. So when they asked me to photograph the REAL THING […]

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Marly and Andrew’s Elopement on Oahu all started with a right swipe! I’m so here for online relationships resulting in a vow exchange. Their love of travel is what landed them on the islands of Hawaii for their intimate elopement. It was just the two of them and one of my favorite officiants, Wesley with […]

Getting to know and photograph Marci and Ryan’s elopement was a treat! We had so much in common, from our love of The Office, to our obsession with travel. And when I say obsession with travel, I mean that they might love it even more than I do! They’re constantly on the go and dreaming […]

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