Creative Elopement Ideas
& perhaps unconventional
Could be of course relevant for a wedding or pre-wedding
You can have your photos taken anywhere!
This might be obvious, but you don’t have to take your wedding photos in or near the city chambers it could be in a pub, an arcade, the street, the top of a building, a museum, a farm, a grocery store and in Scotland where you have the right to roam it could be any outdoor location you can think of! The style might seem a bit intimidating and what I hear a lot is that people don’t know how to pose or are awkward. The awkwardness I find disappears when you are genuinely having fun and you are comfortable with your photographer. I’d say my most important skill is the ability to get my clients comfortable and I can have a funny conversation with anyone that gets them to forget about the “awkwardness” of taking photos in public. I treat everyone as if we are already best friends and the majority, after a while, relax into the shoot and we can take more posed photos in between candid moments.
Your photographer should be able to not only take the photos but also help you create the scene and help with the creative process for fun elopement or pre-wedding photos.
A fun location has so much potential for candid and unique photos that it doesn't matter if you haven’t been in front of a camera before, just enjoying the place and with a photographer who is confident to direct you through the photoshoot you can get amazing creative photos that no one else will have and I swear it’s worth it!
If you are unsure about locations, we can discuss options together based on your theme, style and personal preferences and I can get in touch with the place as well, so you need only show up!
Ditch the conventional Colours
This of course is not an elopement-only idea but if you aren’t having the traditional wedding you also don’t have to wear the traditional attire. You could have a colourful veil and shoes, a mini dress, or ditch the white altogether
Create Your Own Traditions - Wedding or Elopement
Make your Own Wedding Rings
There are a lot of jewellery creators that have open days for people to create their rings and I think it’s a great way to spend a day of bonding and making your rings even more special. They will guide you through every step to make sure they are well made so you don’t need any experience in jewellery making. I can imagine passing them on to your children as something you both made with your own hands. The heirloom of all heirlooms.
Create your ceremony the way you want it
The "marriage part” is in the signing of the legal documents but your vows, and ceremony can be anything you want it to be. You can include a celebrant either secular or spiritual/ pagan/religious or you can have a friend do the the ceremony (could just be saying a few words or reiterating your love story) and you have your vows, which can be a song, a poem on in a foreign language. just for the two of you. You can have any ceremonial display of your bond, such as handfasting, sharing a drink, exchange of gifts or getting a tattoo! Anything you can think of can be your ceremony or you can skip this part all together.
Take your wedding outfits every time you travel for a photoshoot
A few of my clients had opted out of spending their budget on a big wedding but chose to travel instead, taking their wedding attire with them and having a wedding album that spans from cities to continents! You don’t have to necessarily do it at your honeymoon but it could at any point of your marriage! Think of it as a vow renewal around the world
Choose a creative form to be a yearly anniversary tradition
I watched a video of a man showing a collection of painted portraits that he had commissioned from different artists on every anniversary of their marriage. Not only they were beautiful and creative but also took away the stress of having to pick a new gift for their anniversary.
In the same way, you can paint your own portraits, write each other a poem or a story or anything you both love doing together!