Intimate Wedding & Adventure Elopement Photographer
A day crafted around what matters.
Photos that hold your story forever.
More Than Beautiful Photos
How your wedding day feels is just as important as how it looks. As your wedding and adventure elopement photographer, my role goes beyond documenting your day. Elopements and intimate weddings call for a thoughtful, personalized approach. I believe your day should be crafted with intention, and I’m here to help you create an experience that reflects your story and what matters most to you. From planning guidance to the final images, my goal is to help bring your vision to life in a way that feels natural, meaningful, and true to you.
As your adventure elopement photographer, I’m here to help you create a memorable and meaningful experience, focused on what matters most to you.
A Beautiful Place Is Just the Beginning
Eloping is about more than just choosing a beautiful location. It’s about crafting a day that truly feels like your own. Whether you're eating pizza after your Amalfi Coast ceremony, hiking through Iceland’s highlands to exchange vows, popping champagne in Yosemite, or drinking mint tea in the Moroccan Sahara, every detail counts. As an adventure-focused elopement photographer, I value your entire experience as much as the photographs, and I’m here to help you create something meaningful and intentional while capturing it with honesty and care.
A Personal Connection to Eloping
When my wife and I got married in Yosemite National Park, it was the perfect, intimate wedding surrounded by our closest friends and family. We knew we wanted to get married in an epic place, in a location that is significant to our relationship, and more importantly, celebrate in a way that’s meaningful to us.
Having been on that side of it, choosing a place that meant something, keeping it personal, letting go of what didn't matter, I bring that same understanding to every couple I work with.
& How That Matters For Your Day
Elopements and intimate weddings provide a space to celebrate in a way that feels natural, personal, and true to you. That’s why this type of wedding experience means so much to me personally. I understand how meaningful it is to let go of external expectations and create a day focused on what truly matters. Before each wedding, I take the time to get to know you, your story, and what you want this experience to feel like. Wedding days need intention and flexibility, and I love helping couples bring those elements together in a way that feels effortless, meaningful, and completely their own. Whether you’re planning an intimate wedding with loved ones or an elopement for just the two of you, my goal is to help you craft something genuine and personal, then document it in a way that reflects who you truly are beyond the backdrop.
How things are done
My approach as your adventure elopement photographer isn't about perfect poses or ideal locations. It's about capturing the real moments between you, the small gestures, the in-between smiles, the happy tears, the way you exist together and look at each other. When a little direction is needed, I'm there for that too. But the photos that last are always the ones that feel like you.
Your story, your legacy.
My work as an elopement and intimate wedding photographer has never been about building a portfolio or chasing a following. Your story is at the center of everything I do on your wedding day, and my focus is always to capture it exactly as it is, honestly and without distraction.
What do I care to deliver?
Think about the photos you actually return to. The ones framed on your wall, tucked into an album, pulled up on your phone years later. These are the moments worth capturing as heirlooms to love, share, and pass on. The photos that tell your story, bring back memories, and take you back to a specific feeling, a moment in time, a version of yourself you want to remember. That is exactly what I strive to capture and deliver.
Behind each moment, photo, destination, activity, laugh, and happy tears are so much more than just an image. Your story matters, and my goal is to always create meaningful, genuine photos that become part of your legacy.
The Experience Starts Before the Big Day
Before your elopement or intimate wedding day, we connect. I take time to learn your story; what brought you here, what you want the day to feel like, and what matters most to you as a couple.
As your adventure elopement photographer, I'm not just showing up with a camera. I'll help you think through your timeline, suggest meaningful locations, and talk through any details still up in the air. Whether you're planning a California elopement, a destination wedding abroad, or an intimate ceremony closer to home, that groundwork is what makes the day feel easy, and the photos reflect who you are.
By the time we're together on your wedding day, you're not working with a stranger; you're with someone who already knows your story and is there to help you live it.
The Foundation of Great Photos
While your location is set, the outfits are picked out, and your vision is taking shape, what ties it all together is the connection we build before your day. Getting to know you as a couple, learning your dynamic, and understanding what matters most to you is what allows me to photograph you naturally and without reservation.
I am not a cookie-cutter elopement photographer, and that is intentional. I invest time in every couple I work with because the trust we build beforehand is what makes the difference on the day itself. By the time your wedding day arrives, I am not a stranger with a camera. I am someone you trust, someone who feels more like a friend, and someone who already knows your story.
As your intimate wedding and adventure elopement photographer, I see myself as a storyteller. My work is emotion-driven, and my approach is always intentional, focused on the bigger picture and finding meaning in what I photograph. After more than a decade of doing this, capturing your day is second nature, which means I can stay fully present with you rather than getting lost behind the camera. The couples I have photographed can speak to that better than I can.
Your wedding day will become one of the most special days in your life, and through photos, we can tell your story the way it deserves to be told
Let’s chat about your experience
Even if a few details are still up in the air, I’ll help you explore the best options for your day, from meaningful locations and activities to travel tips and coverage that fits your vision.