Antioquia · Colombia · Elopement Curator
Medellín
6.25°N · 75.57°W
Not a photographer for hire, a curator for the whole day: I design it, plan it, book it, style it, photograph it, film it, and hand it back to you. A complete companion to eloping in Medellín.
Medellín has more range than any city I photograph: the murals and escalators of Comuna 13, quiet fincas in the coffee-green hills, the flower farms of Santa Elena in the cloud line, rooftop Poblado at blue hour, and El Peñol's granite monolith an hour east. All of it wrapped in the eternal-spring climate that makes weather stress optional.
This is also my Colombian home base, which changes what you get. I do not just show up to shoot. I design the day around you, book every piece of it, the officiant, the florals, the finca, the guide, the dinner, then photograph and film it and deliver the record. One person, start to finish. The ceremony is symbolic, the legal marriage stays simple, and the Medellín day is only the part that matters.
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The curationEnd to end
Packages from$7,800 USD
Guides on file11
Why an elopement, and why me
The Spiritual Union
An elopement is unlike a wedding. Whereas the wedding is purely focused on aesthetics and performance, elopements are about the spiritual merge: the two of you, a place that means something, and a day built to be lived instead of performed. Done right, it is the most honest set of photographs a couple will ever have. Done by committee, it falls apart in ways you only see later, in the pictures.
Buy a package from a planner
and the day is beautifully arranged, but there is no real “photographer” involved. The pictures come back looking like they were taken on a smartphone. You planned a film and got a receipt.
Bring your own photographer
and you get a good eye with no say in the day. There is a disconnect between what the plan was and what the pictures turn out to be, because the person shooting it did not build it.
Work with me
and you get the best of both worlds. I am a photographer first who plans the entire thing, then brings it home. The person who designs the light is the person standing in it with a camera.
Everyone else plans a day around an activity.
I write a story and play it through one.
It starts with your story, never a location. Before I plan a single thing, I sit with you and listen: how you met, what you are like when no one is watching, the small private details no one else would think to ask for. I write that into a narrative, and then I design the day to play it out. The hike, the boat, the drive up the mountain, that is only the vessel I run your story through, here in Medellín.
This is why the film and the album land the way they do. They are built to carry your story, beat by beat, so that years from now they still move you. Anyone can film two people doing something photogenic in a beautiful place. Turning who you actually are into a film and a set of stills that mean something is the harder thing, and it is the whole of what separates me from everyone else.
What it means to just be present.
Every extra person on an elopement is a seam. A planner to update, a second photographer angling for the same shot, a small crowd of vendors to be aware of. Each one pulls you a little out of the day, and the pictures inherit that split. The reason I hold the whole thing, the plan and the camera, is so that on the day there is no one to manage and no one to perform for.
Present means you are only ever looking at each other. You are not thinking about the schedule, because I am. You forget the camera is there, and that is the exact moment the real frames happen.
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11 dispatches on fileThe Directory
Everything I have filed about eloping in Medellín, organized by what you are trying to figure out. Start with the photography guide, then come back for the specific pieces as your planning develops.
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Four days in MedellínReal Elopements
Four elopements from the Medellín archive, written the way I remember them: the light, the location, what the valley gave us that day. Open any card to read the full story.
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Three tiers · all-inclusive*, priced in USDThe Packages
One person plans, books, styles, photographs, films, and delivers your Medellín elopement. A curated experience rather than photography hours. Three tiers, each all-inclusive* of what I run on the ground, and each with its own album. And because Colombia's on-the-ground costs run well below Mexico or Costa Rica, each tier here carries noticeably more: richer florals from the flower capital itself, more experiences across the fincas and rooftops, longer coverage. The same budget simply buys a fuller day in Medellín.
Three ways to elope in Medellín. Each is the whole experience, designed, planned, booked, styled, and shot by one person, and each comes with its own album. The tier sets how many days the trip runs and how much of it becomes a honeymoon. Everything is listed. There is no hourly meter and no add-on column.
Tier I
Essential
$7,800 USD
1 elopement day · all-inclusive*
The Keepsake Album · 20 pages
- ✓One designed elopement day, start to finish
- ✓Symbolic ceremony, officiant and styling
- ✓One signature location: a hillside finca or a Poblado courtyard
- ✓Photography with videography, shot by me alone
- ✓Planning, permissions, local fixer and transport
- ✓A curated, hand-edited gallery
- ✓Available add-on: The Studio Editorial, from $2,500
Tier II · Recommended
Curated Signature
$13,500 USD
2 elopement days · all-inclusive*
The Signature Album · 40 pages, layflat
Everything in Essential, plus:
- ✓A second day, so the story has room to breathe
- ✓A cinematic film of the day, cut by hand
- ✓Richer florals, hair and makeup
- ✓A local fixer with you throughout
- ✓The Studio Editorial session, included (a Colombia exclusive)
Experiences woven in
- ·A guided Comuna 13 golden-hour walk
- ·The flower farms of Santa Elena
- ·A private finca dinner above the valley
Tier III
Curated Adventuremoon
$19,000 USD
4 elopement days · elopement + honeymoon
The Heirloom Album · fine-art, boxed
Everything in Signature, plus:
- ✓The elopement and honeymoon woven into one four-day journey
- ✓Upgraded photography, film and design moments
- ✓Full fixer support across the whole trip
- ✓The Studio Editorial session, included (a Colombia exclusive)
Experiences woven in
- ·An El Peñol and Guatapé day trip
- ·The metrocable over the valley
- ·A rooftop Poblado blue hour
- ·A coffee finca afternoon in the hills
Signature locations in Medellín
The quiet fincas in the hills above the valley · El Poblado's flower-lined courtyards · Comuna 13, with a local guide · The flower farms of Santa Elena · Rooftop Poblado at blue hour · El Peñol and Guatapé, an hour east
*All-Inclusive covers everything I curate and run: planning, the symbolic ceremony, styling, activities, the dining on your itinerary, permits, local transport, and photography with videography. It does not include airfare or accommodation, which you book yourself. I am glad to recommend where to stay, but for legal reasons I do not book travel or lodging on your behalf.
Start here
Find your elopement archetype first.
Before the date, the tier, or the locations, take two minutes and find the kind of day you are actually after. It is where every day I design begins, and it tells me exactly where to point you in Medellín, Colombia.
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What you will actually doThe Experiences
This is what you are really paying for. A handful of extraordinary days I design, book, and run for you, each one a chapter of the elopement. Turn the album: the photograph on one page, what it is on the other.
The Experiences
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The ceremony · golden hour
A Courtyard in El Poblado
El Poblado hides its best rooms behind walls: courtyards of brick and vine and bougainvillea that hold the afternoon light like a bowl. We stage the ceremony in one of them, a celebrant, two witnesses, and the eternal-spring air doing what it does every single day of the year. Warm, green, and completely private.
Included in every tier
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The day itself
How your elopement day goes
Once you have your archetype, here is how the day itself actually goes. Nothing here is your job to arrange. It is already arranged.
The slow morning
No rush, no room full of people. You get ready in your own time while I quietly catch the first frames: the note, the shoes, the light coming up.
We begin the story
We do not work a shot list. We live the day I designed around you, and I document it as it unfolds across Medellín, chasing the light I have already mapped.
The vows
Your words, out loud, with no audience but the place and me. This is the quietest and the most important part of the day, and I shoot it from a distance so it stays yours.
Through the activity
The hike, the boat, the dinner, the drive. This is where the story plays out and the best pictures live, because you are doing something real together, not posing beside it.
The last hour of light
I plan the whole day backward from it. When it arrives we are exactly where we need to be, unhurried, with time to spare.
The record
It comes back not as files but as a finished thing: a curated gallery, and on the Signature, a cinematic film and a printed album. The day, kept.
The full guide · free
The Colombia Elopement Guide
Before Medellín, the bigger picture. I wrote the complete guide to eloping in Colombia: the Caribbean walled city, the eternal spring of the Aburrá Valley, the high Andean capital, how the symbolic ceremony works while the paperwork stays simple, and what it honestly costs. It is the same thinking behind every day I design, in one place.
Read The Colombia Elopement Guide →
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A sample plan, counted backward from your dateThe Timeline
A Medellín elopement has fewer moving parts than couples expect, because the climate cooperates and I handle the ground. This is the order it runs in, from the first decision to the day itself.
Date, location, and curator
Medellín's climate forgives almost any date, so the finca, the courtyard, or the rooftop, and me to design and photograph it, are the real first decisions. December's alumbrado lights and August's flower festival book earliest.
Settle the legal path
Most couples sign the legal paperwork quietly at home and keep the Medellín ceremony symbolic. If you want the marriage to be legally Colombian, this is when apostilles and official translations start, because the notarial route runs on document time.
Book your flights and stay
Airfare and accommodation are the two things you arrange yourself, for legal reasons. I will point you to the right corner of El Poblado or Laureles, and I build the itinerary around where you wake up.
Fincas, guides, and light
I confirm the finca, the Comuna 13 guide, the Santa Elena farm, and the exact minute the sun drops behind the western ridge. The whole day is choreographed around the valley's borrowed twenty minutes of glow.
Eternal spring, all day
We move from courtyard to hills to blue hour without fighting the weather, because Medellín rarely picks that fight. Your only job is to be in it. I bring the valley home with you.
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The ones couples ask firstQuestions
The questions I hear most often from couples planning a Medellín elopement, answered plainly. If yours is not here, it will be in my first reply when you reach out.
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Medellín dispatchesFrom the Journal
Longer reads for couples who want to go deeper: the eternal-spring climate as a planning tool, the metrocable day, and what each Medellín setting actually delivers.
Guide
Eloping in Medellin: The Photography Guide
The golden courtyards of El Poblado, the murals of Comuna 13, Guatapé's monolith, and the eternal-spring light. Everything for a Medellín elopement, and the part I run.
5 min read →
Field
Medellin, the City of Eternal Spring
Twenty-two degrees, every month of the year. Why Medellín's climate is the most underrated planning advantage in destination elopements, and how I design days around it.
4 min read →
Field
A Medellin Metrocable Elopement
A cable car over a city of orange brick, the whole Aburrá Valley below the cabin. What an elopement built around Medellín's airborne transit actually looks like.
4 min read →
Guide
The Best Places to Elope in Medellin
El Poblado's courtyards, the hillside fincas, Santa Elena's flower farms, and the rooftops at blue hour. What each Medellín setting gives you, and how they combine.
4 min read →Tell me about your day in Medellín.
Share your date and I will come back within 48 hours with availability, an honest estimate, and the fincas, the farms, and the rooftops I would point you toward.
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