Top 10 Reasons to Elope
1) Just “Us” Experience: By choosing to elope you are removing the strain of planning a large wedding, figuring out the guest list and all the potential upset, forgotten or left out people. And you’re opening the door for a day of uninterrupted intimacy.
2) Authenticity: Perhaps you feel that a large wedding just isn’t YOU. The idea of being alone with your partner allows you to get lost in each other, spend quiet time with one another in the setting of your choice. For some of us, that’s our true authentic selves.
3) Intimacy & Intention: When you elope you’re in the movement together. You’re free to fully express yourselves. You avoid the chaos of guests, expectations, and the countless hours you’ll spend worrying about if everyone’s having a good time, or having to have 400 “small talk” conversations. Eloping allows you to be fully immersed in the moment, there’s nothing more intimate than that.
4) Less Family Drama: Let’s be honest here, most families have a little something going on that no one talks about. If you know it exists in your family, and you don’t want to risk hurting anyones feelings by not inviting them, or risk anything happening during your big day. Then you may ask yourself why iinvite it into your space at all? It’s meant to be a celebration of love and two people coming together to begin their own family, you can always skip the guest lists go out into the location of your choice and Elope! Just you and your partner.
5) Valuing Experiences Over Stuff: We often ask ourselves what’s important to us? For some of us it’s our house, a new car, the furniture we buy and gadgets we collect. But for others, it’s experiences, the people we’re with, and the journey of life itself. If you’re a person that prefers experiences over things that’s a big deal when deciding whether to elope or go the traditional route. Just know, you always have the option to choose to get married the way YOU want.
6) Less Stress & Anxiety: We have all heard the stories, how stressful weddings can be. And that starts before you even get to the wedding day. Wedding planning, finding a venue, finding a caterer, the DJ, the chairs and decor, the cake… the list goes on and on. Anxiety runs through the roof out of control worrying about all of the little details when really you should be focused on enjoying yourself fully.
7) Too much planning: Planning becomes overwhelming, it seemingly never ends. You plan one thing and there’s always something else waiting for your attention. How can you fit all of your ideas into a time frame that seems impossible. It’s no wonder different cultures have weddings that last several days. But even then, time never seems to be on your side. The slightest thing goes wrong and your whole timeline falls apart.
8) Not the Center of Attention: Let’s face it; not everyone desires to be the main focus of a large group. For some of us that’s downright a nightmare idea. Just another valid reason to elope…. It’s just YOU! There’s no crowd of people staring at you, it’s just the two of you lost in a moment together.
9) Life is Meant to be an Adventure: Most people that choose an elopement over a traditional wedding live life a certain way. You may not subscribe to the ‘norm’ (whatever that is) you live life your way, on your terms. Treating life as a journey you find yourself traveling the world and living in the moment. You’d rather experience life through travel, adventures and exploring the unknown.
10) Amazing photos: Couples who choose this route want the experience over things. Which often means they highly value documenting their day in a way that expresses who they truly are. Having a photographer on your adventure with you means your beautiful natural moments are captured in the best way. And of course so may want a little creativity splashed in there and hold out of that amazing view of a sunset
