Shirly, Ryan reached out looking for an adventure photographer to capture their intimate Vermont elopement. With a destination wedding planned for the future but the uncertainty of COVID travel restrictions, they wanted to take a step back from that stress and focus on what really matters – EACH OTHER.
They are dog people and they were down for a sunrise elopement. SIGN. ME. UP!
We tossed around tons of ideas – everything from a morning hike to watch the sunrise to a mid-morning ceremony – and eventually settled on an in-between: A sunrise elopement at Jay Peak Resort in Vermont.
I showed up at the condo they rented bright (well, still kinda dark!) and early to snag some getting ready shots. After a private first look, Shirly, Ryan and I spent some time exploring the resort and taking in the gorgeous VT foliage before meeting a few of their closest family and friends for “I do”.
When my husband, Sam and I decided to go through with our October wedding in 2020 (are you doing the COVID math? Yep, MID first spike), our vision had to change a lot.
The venue we booked was gorgeous but it wasn’t necessarily what I would have gone with if I knew our 200+ person wedding was actually going to be closer to a 35 person wedding. Our small and intimate day probably would have looked a LOT more like Shirly and Ryan’s vision if we could have done it over again. I think that is one of the reasons I loved capturing this Vermont elopement so much.
The intimacy of a small mountain condo + lower key ceremony was EVERYTHING. They nailed the perfect combination of elegant and mountain-y from the gorgeous bouquet right down to Shirley’s hiking boots.
[…] think I literally asked them, “I’ve been driving to Jay Peak a lot recently and keep passing a really pretty barn. It is next to the rail trail so I’m […]