Available in the Blue Ridge Mountains, COLORADO + select destinations in the Southeast
Intimate Wedding & Elopement Experiences that feel natural, meaningful, and fully your own
Completely custom wedding experiences, backed by full-service planning from the very beginning — so the day can feel effortless and fully your own.
We help you turn that feeling into a completely custom wedding experience — shaping the location, timeline, logistics, and photography around what matters most.
Because the experience is designed around you, the planning has to be just as intentional. Whether it becomes a just-us elopement, an intimate gathering with loved ones, or a multi-day destination experience, we help make the pieces work together from the beginning.
Your wedding doesn’t need to start with a template.
It should start with how you want it to feel.
This is your chance to build a wedding around what matters most to you — not around a template, a venue package, or someone else’s idea of what the day should look like.
The freedom is in making it completely your own. The full-service planning is what allows that freedom to actually work.
And a day that feels this natural doesn’t happen by accident.
our wedding day doesn’t have to feel like something you’re managing or performing your way through. Imagine waking up excited, not stressed, knowing the day ahead was built around the two of you.
Maybe that means private vows somewhere beautiful. Easing into the morning together. An adventure out in the wild. Dinner with the people you love. A few meaningful traditions — or none at all.
There is no formula for what belongs in the day. The point is that every part has a reason for being there — because it reflects who you are and how you want to experience your wedding.
This is the kind of day you’ll wish you could live over and over again.
From Mary & Brian — Sunrise elopement in the Blue Ridge Mountains
"Their deep knowledge of our elopement location, including hidden trails and secret waterfalls, added a magical element to our ceremony that we never could have planned on our own.
Their attention to detail was beyond anything we could have imagined."
You know you want something more personal. The harder part is figuring out how all the pieces actually work together.
How do we actually make this happen?
But now you might be wondering...
With StoryBright, you’re not left to research, coordinate, and connect every piece on your own.
We turn the feeling you’re after into a fully planned experience — finding the right setting, shaping the timeline, guiding vendor decisions, planning guest flow and logistics, and building in the contingencies that make the day work.
- What kind of setting actually fits the experience we want?
- How do we include guests without losing the intimacy?
- What vendors do we really need?
- What happens if the weather changes?
- How do we make the whole day flow naturally?
Renewing our vows in Glacier National Park
Psalm 95:4-5
Mark & Carolyn
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After more than 100 elopements and intimate weddings, we’ve learned that the value of a planner is not simply answering questions. It is knowing what to research, what to anticipate, what to rule out, and how to make every part of the day work together.
From finding the right setting to shaping the timeline, vendor team, guest experience, logistics, and backup plans, we help carry the complexity so you can stay focused on what the day is supposed to feel like.
Meet Mark & Carolyn
We don’t just photograph the experience. We help plan the experience from the beginning.
Couples often tell us they felt calm, cared for, and fully supported.
That feeling is intentional.
We’ll be taking care of you every step of the way.
100+
Elopements and intimate weddings expertly planned, photographed+filmed with care
27+
Years of marriage and partnership
shaping the way we care for couples
One Team
Planning, photography, film, and wedding-day support
working from one connected plan
Find the wedding experience that fits your vision
Which one feels closest?
Choose the Experience that feels like what you're imagining
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Adventure Elopement
Intimate WEdding
All-Inclusive
Adventure Elopement
You don’t need to fit into one narrow version of an elopement. From private outdoor adventures to guest-inclusive gatherings and destination-style experiences, we help shape the right path around what matters most.
A completely custom elopement with full-service planning, essential vendors, and logistics thoughtfully brought together for you.
A custom, guest-inclusive wedding with full-service planning for the venue, vendors, guest flow, logistics, and experience as a whole.
A custom, fully planned elopement for just the two of you or a small group — with the freedom to choose the vendors and details that fit your day.
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This is how we design Intimate Wedding & Elopement Experiences from the ground up.
Each story began with a different vision, a different set of priorities, and a different planning problem to solve.
See how we helped each couple find the right setting, shape the experience, and work through the decisions that made the day feel like theirs.
Explore the stories below to see how each day took shape:
- What mattered most to them: the vision behind the day
- How the experience was designed: the key decisions that shaped it
- How it all unfolded: the moments that made it feel like theirs
Start with the one that feels closest to you.
Featured Stories:
Mary & Brian
Just-Us Sunrise Elopement & Waterfall Adventure in Asheville
Brittany & Cale
Intimate Airbnb Wedding & Waterfall Adventure in the Smokies
Camille & Arthur
Private Vows & Intimate Wedding in Shenandoah National Park
Hannah & Dominic
Waterfall Adventure Elopement in the Carolina Mountains
Jamie & Ross
Private Waterfall Airbnb Elopement in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Naomi & Scott
Multi-day Destination Wedding Adventure at Pretty Place
Lauren & Sam
Multi-day Colorado Airbnb Wedding & Adventure Elopement
Sarah & Michael
Off-road Colorado Jeep Adventure Elopement in Crested Butte
Sarah & Michael — Colorado elopement
"Mark & Carolyn truly listened to my vision for our day and bent over backwards to ensure that all of our dreams for our wedding day came true.
They honestly took the stress of planning a wedding completely and totally away. From helping us pick our wedding location to helping us plan the timeline for the day, we could not have done this wedding without them!"
Hope & Justin — Charleston, SC elopement
“We felt heard, seen, and accepted for how we wanted to get married. Mark and Carolyn were extremely accommodating to our vision, and their organization, planning, and attention to detail made our day so stress free and enjoyable!”
What Couples Say About Their StoryBright Experience
Words from couples who wanted something deeply personal — and trusted us to help make it work.
Fill out the inquiry form with your ideas, even if they’re still taking shape.
We’ll hear what you’re considering, answer a few initial questions, and see whether our approach feels like the right fit.
If it does, the next step is a full planning consult ... where we slow down, explore your vision and priorities, talk through possibilities, and help you see what your wedding experience could actually look like.
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