1. Intimacy
Eloping adventurously allows you as a couple the ability to be intimate. That’s right, don’t be shy, just be yourselves. If you’re choosing remote locations or “just us” adventures, enjoying each other is obviously one of your top priorities. Enjoy TIME, privacy, true togetherness, and closeness you wouldn’t be able to enjoy in a courthouse or by throwing a huge wedding.
2. Excitement
You deserve to be excited about your wedding. Even and especially if your wedding doesn’t look like everyone else’s. The only thing that matters is that you’re excited about it. If the typical open bar and catered meal doesn’t excite you, well, there’s always travel, and Michelin star meals, and museums, and kayaking, and planes, trains, and automobiles, and snowy mountains, and everything, because the world is your oyster.
3. Originality
There are wedding trends and traditions that may not be important to you. The great thing about eloping adventurously is breaking away from trends and traditions that hold no personal significance. Your story is unique and your wedding should be too. Your wedding should be meaningful and overflowing with the ideas that make you two you. It’s the experience of you, I like to call it. Nothing is off limits when you elope so you’re free to toss tradition to the wind, let your hair down, and just do what the hell you want to do. Literally.
4. Emotionality
Your elopement will be filled with emotion. It’s a day you’ll spend off your phone. Your elopement is a song dedicated to what your life will be like now that you have each other forever. You’ll want to scream from the mountains all of your love, you’ll want to cry hysterically at the luck you have in finding your person, and you’ll want to laugh out loud while you enjoy your time together. Eloping adventurously will allow you to indulge in the time in all of these emotions. In your intimacy, you’ll feel compelled to be all of your emotional self in the safety of your small guest list.
5. Exclusivity
For me, our guestlist was 10. Yup, just 10 people came to our wedding. (Read all about it here). That’s the extent of my tribe, give or take a few people. It all happened in the middle of COVID, as we were in the process of buying our first home. There was a lot going on. But I wouldn’t change it for the world because I love spending time with the people who allow me to be truly me. That’s who we invited, because quality over quantity any day, especially with our people. This is why this is the top reason we eloped adventurously ourselves.
6. Sustainability
One thing I love about eloping adventurously is that its weddings for minimalists. There isn’t any waste, neither financially nor materially nor even emotionally. You’re only bringing the things you need the most because the great outdoors is overwhelmingly beautiful and reflects your minimalistic style. With your VIP list you’re sending less paper in the mail or even choosing digital invitations. You’re not buying bulk items for party favors that people will turn around and throw away when they get home. You’re not creating waste with the process of decorating and feeding too many people. It’s a win for a minimalist and the environmentally conscious. Finally, you won’t waste your energy dealing with things you don’t want to do, whether that be during planning or during the wedding itself. If you plan with the two of you mind, it’s sustainable because you are only worrying about your needs.
7. Mobility
Being out in the great outdoors or running around the city means you get to explore. You’re not confined to a courtroom or a venue wherein you must be entertained or entertaining many guests. You get to be on the move, which means instead of bringing all of the best things to you, you can go out and see all of the best things, eat all your favorite foods, see all of the best sights, have any type of adventure. It’s like being on honeymoon but getting married on the honeymoon. Why wait to honeymoon?
8. Enjoyability
When you make time for yourself and create something meaningful to you, you’re more likely to enjoy your time. Don’t let those big weddings fool you, people are drama, family has a weird way of getting under your skin during planning, the food is subpar because it’s cooked for too many people, and that big party cost a whole lot and most couples will tell you it all went too quick to really enjoy it. The old adage applies – quality over quantity, especially for your wedding.
9. Flexibility
With a smaller guest list and so many options for a couple who wants to celebrate their way, there can be plans b-z and it won’t be too difficult to execute, especially if you have quick pivoting coordinators, like ourselves. Usually, the more people involved the less flexibility you’ll have to change plans at short notice. When there are fewer people involved communication is easier and making moves proves to be a little easier.
10. Splurgability
Firstly, I’m not sure if that’s even a word, but the ability to splurge is huge on the list of reasons to elope adventurously. Eloping adventurously is a splurge in and of itself. Splurge on the things that mean something to you.
Always wanted to ride in a helicopter? Include it in your elopement.
Do you want a day to enjoy all of your favorite foods? Enjoy them for your elopement.
Do you want to spoil yourselves and travel somewhere you’ve never been? Travel for your elopement!
This moment is all about you.
So do all the things – indulge in the love of your closest family and friends, eat all of the best foods and have someone cook them all professionally for you, don’t lift a finger for your elopement, see some great views and chill all damn day laughing with your people, hike a mountain to have a picnic with the most beautiful views.
