Commission
Elopement & Private Ceremony
Two people, a witness or two, and a photographer who knows when to stop walking.
An elopement is not a small wedding. It is a different event with a different centre of gravity: there is no room to work, no schedule to hide inside, and nothing happening in the background to photograph while you decide what to do next. It is the two of you, and it is either honest or it is nothing.
One photographer, usually. A second person on a cliff in Big Sur with four people present is a crowd. We plan the hour rather than the day — where the light will be, how long the walk is, what happens if the weather turns — and then we largely disappear into it.
Discretion is the default here rather than an option. Nothing from a private ceremony is published, shown to a prospective client, or entered anywhere, unless you write to say it may be.
- Coverage
- One photographer, three to six hours, the two of you.
- From
- $6,500
What it covers
Included in every commission.
- One photographer, three to six hours
- Location planning against sunrise or sunset for your date
- Permit research and, where one is required, the application
- The complete edited set within four weeks
- Full-resolution files and a private archive
- Nothing published without your written consent
In particular
Elopement & Private Ceremony photography, place by place.
Pages written for one commission in one place, with the venues, the permits and the hour the light actually goes.
- Elopement & Private Ceremony in Big Sur & CarmelUnited States
- Elopement & Private Ceremony in Scottish HighlandsUnited Kingdom
- Elopement & Private Ceremony in SantoriniGreece
- Elopement & Private Ceremony in Jackson HoleUnited States
- Elopement & Private Ceremony in VeniceItaly
- Elopement & Private Ceremony in Gstaad & St. MoritzSwitzerland
Everywhere else
All twenty-eight destinations.
Elopement & Private Ceremony is available in every place we work.
New York
New York, United States
The Hamptons
New York, United States
Newport
Rhode Island, United States
Nantucket
Massachusetts, United States
Napa Valley
California, United States
Big Sur & Carmel
California, United States
Santa Barbara & Montecito
California, United States
Aspen
Colorado, United States
Jackson Hole
Wyoming, United States
Charleston
South Carolina, United States
Palm Beach
Florida, United States
Savannah
Georgia, United States
Lake Como
Lombardy, Italy
Amalfi Coast
Campania, Italy
Tuscany
Tuscany, Italy
Venice
Veneto, Italy
Puglia
Apulia, Italy
Taormina & Sicily
Sicily, Italy
Paris
Île-de-France, France
Provence
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
Côte d’Azur
Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
Mallorca
Balearic Islands, Spain
Santorini
Cyclades, Greece
Mykonos
Cyclades, Greece
Gstaad & St. Moritz
Bern and Grisons, Switzerland
The Cotswolds
England, United Kingdom
London
England, United Kingdom
Scottish Highlands
Scotland, United Kingdom
Elopement & Private Ceremony — questions
Do you help us choose where?
Yes, and it is most of the value. Tell us the month and roughly where in the world; we come back with two or three places, the hour each one works at, what the walk involves and what the permit costs. The choice is yours, the research is ours.
Will you be a witness?
Where the jurisdiction allows a photographer to sign, yes, and we have done so. It is worth confirming with your officiant, as some states and countries require a witness unconnected to the vendors.
What if the weather is impossible?
We agree a second hour and, if the place demands it, a second day, before you travel. Fog on a headland is a photograph. Horizontal rain on an exposed summit is a risk to your dress and our lenses, and we will say so rather than let you walk up it.
Tell us the date and the place.
We reply to every enquiry personally, usually within two business days. We take a limited number of commissions each year, and we would rather say so now than manage a waiting list.