What is an elopement wedding ceremony?

What is an elopement wedding, or elopement ceremony? Eloping has often been portrayed as a spur-of-the-moment wedding, often at the county courthouse, without any friends or family present. Have you seen this depicted in movies? Maybe you've heard of people running away to Las Vegas to elope, or find out after the fact that friends of your were married in a small elopement ceremony?

The thing with elopement weddings these days, are that you can make it whatever you want it to be! You can pick a nice outdoor destination, you can do a backyard wedding, you can get married in the forest, or on a mountaintop! With your officiant from Stay Gold Elopements, you can make your wedding as small, unique, intimate and special as you'd like it. Do you need witnesses for your ceremony? It depends on the state you live in. Maybe you want the celebrate the day with only your spouse and yourself, let us provide witnesses for you and keep your elopement ceremony between just the two of you. Maybe you want your two best friends, and dogs, there to watch you get married. Maybe you want to get married on the beach, or at the restaurant you first met at! You can do all of this with an elopement ceremony.

Elopement doesn't mean "running away" to be married. It doesn't mean a courthouse wedding, it means putting yourselves first and planning your wedding exactly how you want it to be - just on a smaller scale.