Adventure Elopements + Storytelling

Montana carried the energy of vulnerability and honest Love. It felt humbling and sincere. To me, Montana became a symbolic representation of Home. Not one that my human body has lived in, but a homely ground that my spirit is infused into. Intuitively, I knew that when Montana’s energy manifested in physical form in my life that I would indeed be at home within.

Read the why behind Montana becoming so important and our first matching tattoos:
“tie me tight in little strands of paradise” a nod to John Mayer and his lyrical verses.

There’s something about Glacier that holds you. Maybe it’s the way the mountains stand in quiet confidence, or how the wind carries a kind of stillness you didn’t know you needed. The land doesn’t ask you to perform. It invites you to slow down, to feel more deeply, to remember what brought you here in the first place—each other.

Eloping in Montana isn’t about skipping tradition. It’s about choosing something more aligned. Something that feels like your love: rooted, a little wild, and fully present. It’s walking into a vast, untamed landscape and saying, This is enough. You are enough. Together, that’s more than enough.

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n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

This is the long story short about our Colorado elopement location, meeting Dermot Kennedy, chasing the fullest version of ourselves, and a bookstore in Nashville.

Deagan and Alex committed themselves to a two-day backpacking elopement that would challenge their physical and mental strength on the strenuous hike to the summit of Mount LeConte. It was a representation of perseverance and reconnection to life force. An experience like this is bound to change you, but the time spent together unlocked more than we ever anticipated while planning the adventure elopement in the Smoky Mountains.

Life is transformation. We are stripped, fragmented, and fractured into our many moving parts time and time again. We are the watchers from within, sitting front row to experience the ever-changing nature of the Universe. This change, this pattern, shows itself throughout our external world. Indigenous people believe ferns represent new beginnings. The dense ferns that draped the entire forest floor on our first camping trip were present in the many unfolding moments of Us that followed. Our story is powerful, and the symbolic journey we see and feel reminds us that the world is alive and breathing.

It’s no surprise that the Smoky Mountains are a top choice for weddings and elopements in the U.S. With more than 800 miles of scenic hiking trails and 2,800 miles of winding streams, this stunning park offers an amazing backdrop for an unforgettable experience. In this guide, we’ll cover everything you need to know about tying the knot in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.