Your love, shaped by place.
Whether your story unfolds along the Santa Cruz coast, in the San Francisco Bay Area, among California redwoods, in Big Sur, on a trail, or somewhere across the world, your experience is documented with a documentary heart, creative direction, and an awareness of the landscape holding it.
A spacious, collaborative experience for vows, movement, portraits, details, and the honest rhythm of a day shaped by place.
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BASED IN SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA · SERVING CALIFORNIA AND WORLDWIDE
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ADVENTURE ELOPEMENTS
Your love, shaped by place.
Adventure elopements are intimate stories shaped by landscape, devotion, and the honest rhythm of the day. Based in California and traveling worldwide, I create space for vows, movement, portraits, details, and the wild quiet around it all.
ELOPEMENT EXPERIENCE
The Adventure Elopement
Starting at $4,500
Up to six hours of photography for couples creating a more expansive elopement experience shaped by movement, landscape, and intentional time together.
Includes
• Up to six hours of photography
• One lead photographer
• Extended planning consultation
• Location and experience guidance
• Custom timeline support
• Coverage across multiple nearby locations
• Ceremony and vow coverage
• Documentary, environmental, and creatively directed portraits
• Professionally edited high-resolution images
• Private online gallery · Sneak peeks within 48 hours
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ELOPEMENT EXPERIENCE
The Destination Elopement
Starting at $6,500
Extended or full-day photography for destination ceremonies, multi-location experiences, and stories unfolding across changing landscapes.
Includes
• Extended or full-day photography coverage
• One lead photographer
• Destination planning consultation
• Location research and guidance
• Custom timeline development
• Coverage across multiple locations or environments
• Ceremony, vows, movement, details, and environmental storytelling
• Documentary and creatively directed portraits
• Professionally edited high-resolution images · Private online gallery · Sneak peeks within 48 hours
Travel, accommodations, permits, transportation, and location-specific production expenses are quoted separately.
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STOCK VIDEO PLACEHOLDER — REPLACE WITH ELOPEMENT FILM
EXPLORE FILMS
Motion film can be added to preserve the voices, movement, atmosphere, and emotional rhythm of your elopement.
ELOPEMENT EXPERIENCE
The Intimate Elopement
Starting at $3,000
Up to four hours of photography for intimate ceremonies and slow, meaningful celebrations centered on presence, connection, and the people or places closest to you.
Includes
• Up to four hours of photography
• One lead photographer
• Planning consultation
• Location guidance
• Timeline support
• Ceremony and vow coverage
• Documentary and creatively directed portraits
• Environmental storytelling
• Professionally edited high-resolution images
• Private online gallery · Sneak peeks within 48 hours
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Every expression of love belongs here.
IMG Media welcomes LGBTQIA+ couples, multicultural ceremonies, chosen families, spiritual traditions, nontraditional partnerships, and people creating new ways of committing and gathering. Your identities, traditions, bodies, pronouns, relationships, and expressions of love will be met with care and respect.
Additions
Additional photography coverage: $750 per hour
Engagement session: $750
Welcome dinner coverage: starting at $950
Farewell brunch coverage: starting at $950
35mm film photography: $650
Super 8 elopement film: starting at $1,800
Signature heirloom album: $1,500
Parent album: $750
Framed archival print: $500
Two-week gallery delivery: $950
Second photographer: custom pricing
Permit and location fees: custom proposal
Destination travel: custom proposal
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