Some of the best moments in life are when you're fully free to be yourself with your person! The inside jokes and laughter that makes your cheeks hurt. The meaningful glances and touches. The way you can just sit together in silence and it still feels comfortable, because you're just... together. Quality time and connection shape everything I value in my own marriage, from the carefree date nights to the hard conversation that deepen our relationship and story over time.

After experiencing my own big wedding first hand and photographing many more over the years I noticed a pattern. A lot of one-sided planning, stress slowly replacing excitement and then finally on the big day, the couple rarely spent meaningful together. This was the 'norm' and the more I saw the more it made me sad.

Then I photographed my first elopement and was hooked! I started seeing couples who were BOTH excited about planning a day that reflected them and their interests. The wedding days became more intimate, personal, and unrushed. They were free to be themselves without worrying about outside opinions or eyeballs. Elopements reflect everything that I value in my own relationship and being able to help couples create a day centered around quality time, being themselves, and experiencing something meaningful is such a honor.

Hey, I'm Donna

(if you haven't seen That 70's show... well, this is awkward... disregard!)

your local Alaskan elopement expert and hype girl!

or hot donna...