You start planning your elopement by imagining how the photos will look posted.
That instinct quietly steers you toward the wrong decisions.
The couples who are happiest years later planned around how the day would feel to live, not how it would look online.
The trap of planning for the feed
When the goal becomes the post, you start choosing the location that photographs best over the one that means something, staging moments instead of living them, and measuring the day by its likes. The photos might look great and the day itself can still feel hollow, because it was built for an audience that was never there.
What to plan for instead
Plan for the experience: the place that matters to you, the pace that lets you breathe, the moments you actually want to have. The paradox is that a day built to be lived also photographs better, because real presence and emotion are what the camera loves most. Plan the feeling, and the images follow.
As your Elopement Curator I plan the day around how it will feel, then both photograph and film what that produces. Twelve years and 240+ couples in, the couples who planned the experience over the post are the ones who never regretted a thing.
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Elopement Curator
Vancouver · Medellín · Worldwide
