You picture a destination elopement as booking a flight and a photographer and showing up.
Underneath that are legalities, permits, vendors, and timing that vary in every country.
A destination elopement has real moving parts, and the whole thing gets simple the moment one person owns all of them.
What actually goes into it
There is the legal question, whether you marry there or at home; the paperwork and any translations or apostilles; the permits for the site; the season and the light; the local vendors; and the shape of the days around the ceremony. In every country these differ, and a mistake in any one can unravel the trip.
The decision that makes it simple
The single decision that changes everything is having one person plan, book, permit, and document the whole thing, instead of stitching together a planner, a fixer, a photographer, and a videographer across a language barrier. When it is all one person, the country stops mattering and the day just works.
That is exactly the role I built. As your Elopement Curator I plan the trip, handle the legalities and the logistics, and both photograph and film the days, anywhere in the world. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, the couples who let one person own it all had the simplest trips of anyone.
Elopement Curator
Vancouver · Medellín · Worldwide
