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The Quiet Beauty of Second Marriage Elopements & MicroWeddings

While a first wedding is often shaped by tradition and external expectations, a second marriage is a choice rooted in clarity, resilience, and joy. It doesn't need the noise, the spectacle, or the performance.

Lesbian wedding couple wearing white boho dresses and colorful bouquets stand barefoot in a creek with a rock wall behind them.

Elopements

Emotional medium shot of Kara reading her wedding vows from a small booklet, looking up at Jon with a smile during their intimate Hocking Hills elopement.

Spring Cedar Falls elopement

Full-length portrait of a wedding couple embracing on a rocky summit with layers of blue ridges waking up behind them.

Summer Blue Ridge Mountains Elopement

Entering this next chapter takes real courage, and your wedding photographs should feel completely relaxed and natural.

Second Marriage Elopements & Weddings

An intimate moment of a couple reading elopement vows at Lower Falls in Hocking Hills, Ohio. The scene is surrounded by fall foliage and the natural stone textures of the gorge.

How to Write Your Own Elopement Vows

Weddings

An artistically blurred photo of the backs of a couple walking towards a Tudor mansion entrance in fall. The groom is wearing a maroon suit. The bride has a flowing and dramatic veil.

Fall Wedding at Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens

Ash Cave summer micro wedding ceremony with waterfall, dog, bridal party, guests and reception at Among The Trees Lodge Cedar Falls Engagement Session

Summer Ash cave & lodge Wedding

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A mature couple walks across the Japanese Stepping Stone Bridge at Old Man's Cave Gorge. Above them, the A-frame bridge frames the scene. The woman is wearing a red dress for her Hocking Hills elopement.

Second Marriage Elopements & Weddings

Upper Falls Ceremony Waterfall Hocking Hills Elopement Spring May Private Vows Romantic

How to Write Your Own Wedding Vows

Engagements

A double exposure of an engaged couple standing before the rushing white water of Cedar Falls in Hocking Hills. The image is layered with delicate spring ephemeral wildflowers, creating a translucent, magical fairytale effect where the couple and the forest seem to merge into one mystical scene.

Spring Cedar Falls engagement

An engaged couple leaned inward on a column and they examine the woman's engagement ring. The column supports a cascade of green ivy. The location is Schiller Park in German Village, Ohio.

Fall Schiller Park Engagement

A black man and white woman embrace at Ash Cave as dramatic light rays illuminate them from behind.

Summer Ash CAve Engagement session

A man and woman reach their hands for each other. The woman wears an engagement ring. Behind their hands is a red hibiscus flower.

guide to hocking hills engagement photos

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Surprise Proposals

A man and woman crouch on their knees after he proposed to her by the waterfall at Ash Cave.

Spring surprise proposal at ash cave

An asian couple walks in front of Upper Falls at Old Man's Cave in May after a surprise proposal.

Summer upper falls surprise proposal

A couple embraces on the drawbridge at Ravenwood Castle in winter following a magical surprise proposal.

Winter Proposal at Ravenwood Castle

A black couple sits on a sandstone cliff after their proposal at Upper Falls in the Hocking Hills.

fall proposal at upper falls at omc

Vow Renewals & Anniversaries

A couple holds a baby and stands next to a stone fireplace and a wooden pergola at Hocking Hills Wedding Chapel in spring. The couple renews their vows on their 5th wedding anniversary.

Spring Vow Renewal at Wedding Chapel

A woman sits on a counter in the modern open plan kitchen of Dunlap Hollow A-frame. The man leans in and kisses her on the lips.

Spring anniversary session at dunlap hollow

A couple walks out of the pink Silversmith's Lodge at Ravenwood Castle on their way to renew their vows on their 35th wedding anniversary.

Spring Vow Renewal at Ravenwood Castle

Epic wide angle shot of Ash Cave during a Queer Anniversary Vow Renewal in the Hocking Hills.

Queer First Anniversary Vow Renewal

High-angle shot of the couple sitting together outside The Pine cabin, with the brilliant orange and yellow November sunset filtering through the tree canopy behind them. The fire in the pit smokes in the evening light.

Fall Hocking Hills Cabin Anniversary

A couple stands in Conkles Hollow gorge for their 25th anniversary portraits. They are dwarfed by rock walls and vibrant green.

Summer Anniversary Photos at Conkles Hollow

Published Work

Photo of wedding couple walking across Ash Cave crosswalk with vibrant fall foliage around them and the photo looks a bit like the iconic Abbey Road photo.

WANDERING WEDDINGS: Intimate Adventure at Ash Cave

A bride with a dress train dangling off off a bridge edge leans into her husband . The photo is taken at the Japanese Stepping Stone Bridge in Old Man's Cave Gorge in the Hocking Hills.

Wandering Weddings: Elopement at Hocking Hills

wedding day: A LUSCIOUS, ECO-FRIENDLY HANGAR elopement

Haven at Cedar Grove Styled Shoot Flower Mohawk Hocking Hills Ohio

wedding day: THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX WITH THIS ROMANTIc ELOPEMENT

A vintage style black and white photograph of a couple with their foreheads pressed together on their wedding day at Ravenwood Castle in Hocking Hills, Ohio. The lighting is ethereal and soft.

KIND WORDS

"Choosing Elizabeth was by far the easiest decision we had to make when planning our wedding day at Ravenwood Castle! She was so much fun to work with and truly made me look and feel good! Our wedding photos they left us speechless! Every photo came out truly magical."

-DEVON

Feeling Inspired?

If you're ready to turn vision into a reality, I'd love to hear all about it!

Dark romantic styled photo shoot inspiration with pink and yellow tapered candles, nature cloche, flowers, and muted tones at a historic mansion in Ohio.

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