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32 Epic Elopement Ideas for Couples Who Want More Than Just a Ceremony 

ByHenry Tieu May 5, 2025August 28, 2025

Your special day is more than your ceremony and should feel 1000% yours. Here are 32 wedding and elopement ideas to make your day your own!

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Guests sit at a wood table under string lights in the forest during a Washington micro wedding reception dinner.
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How to Plan a Micro Wedding in Washington State

ByHenry Tieu March 31, 2025August 28, 2025

Want to include guests in your wedding, but don’t want to have a big wedding? If that’s you, click to read this blog post and learn how to plan a micro wedding in Washington state!

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Bride and groom stand on the edge of a mountain cliff during their elopement in the Italian Dolomites
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How to Elope in the Dolomites [Updated for 2026]

ByHenry Tieu March 10, 2025November 17, 2025

Planning an elopement in the Dolomites? Follow these 6 steps and learn everything you need to know about how to elope in the Dolomites in Italy!

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How to Tell Family You’re Eloping
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How to Tell Family You’re Eloping

ByHenry Tieu January 27, 2025August 28, 2025

Wondering how to share the news of your elopement with loved ones? Read this post to learn tips on how to tell family you’re eloping.

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Bride adn groom stand on a mountain trail during their Washington elopement at Mt Rainier
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Top 17 National Park Wedding Venues in the U.S.

ByHenry Tieu January 6, 2025August 28, 2025

Looking for the best national park wedding venues for your adventure wedding? Visit the blog to see the top 17 national park locations in the U.S.

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34 Best Micro Wedding Venues in the U.S. 
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34 Best Micro Wedding Venues in the U.S. 

ByHenry Tieu December 30, 2024January 5, 2026

Planning a small, intimate wedding? Read this article for a list of the top 34 micro wedding venues in the U.S.

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A Complete Guide to Planning Your Elopement Timeline
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A Complete Guide to Planning Your Elopement Timeline

ByHenry Tieu October 28, 2024August 28, 2025

Choosing to elope is one of the most meaningful decisions you can make. Click to read all our elopement timeline tips to help you make the most of your day!

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Two grooms stand at the edge of a tarn at the base of Mt Rainier
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34 Best Places to Elope in Washington State

ByHenry Tieu September 23, 2024August 28, 2025

Looking for the best places to elope in Washington State? Visit the blog to learn 34 of the best Washington elopement locations!

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Family portraits during Banff National Park elopement
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Elopement vs Intimate Wedding: Can You Have Both?

ByHenry Tieu August 26, 2024August 28, 2025

What is an elopement? What is an intimate wedding? Can you really have both? Visit the blog to learn the answer to these questions as well as what is the difference between elopement vs intimate weddings.

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Our Photography Booking Process
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Our Photography Booking Process

ByHenry Tieu November 20, 2023August 28, 2025

Check out this blog to learn all about our wedding and elopement photography booking process

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About Henry Tieu Photography: We are a Seattle-based team of destination elopement & intimate wedding photographers who specialize in honest storytelling, candid moments, and soulful portraits in breathtaking landscapes whether that's the mountains of Washington State or the wild beauty of faraway places across the world. Published in The New York Times, named Best Wedding Photography (2019 - 2025) and a Rangefinder Magazine Rising Star, we're honored to capture the kind of love that's deeply felt, artfully preserved and intentionally celebrated. As an Asian and LGBTQ-owned business, we believe your love deserves to be seen, respected, and remembered exactly as it is. Inclusivity, trust, and connection guide everything we do.

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The end of each wedding is always the saddest part The end of each wedding is always the saddest part. It feels like reaching the final pages of a book you deeply love. You know the pages will end so you read it slowly. Each word tend to fall further apart and the spaces between those words become the mixed feelings of wanting to hug goodbye just one last time but knowing we all have to part ways This year, as a team, we said hello and goodbye to 67 couples 5 countries and 4 States. I am speaking for Nick and Sergio when I say that with every hello and every goodbye, it tugs at our hearts. We forever hope these photos become something you can hold onto…as evidence of our existence…as mementos of beautiful memories…as stories you’ll return to again and again, especially when all our hair turns gray. Out of all the incredible photographers in the world, you chose us! That trust has allowed us turn a passion into a career, build lives with our own families, and continue finding joy in this world. Whether you’re family, a client, a friend, my team, part of our team, a peer, or a stranger on the internet who somehow found this page, thank you for giving us a life far greater than we could have ever imagined. Thanks for the making 2025 the best one yet! 2026 couples and families, we are so ready for you All digitals edited with @hdpresets
This life was once a wish. Now it’s our everyday This life was once a wish. Now it’s our everyday It’s only our second Christmas together but every Christmas with them feels like a chance to rewrite the story of this lifetime and to refocus on what truly matters May we move a little slower, May we stay a present a little longer. May we never rush past the ordinary moments that are, in truth, everything. From our family to yours, wishing you a holiday season filled with warmth, gentleness, and the kind of love that feels like home. ——— Digital and film 🎞️
I’m humbled to share that one of my images won the I’m humbled to share that one of my images won the 2025 Best of The Best Wedding Photos by @junebugweddings This is the 6th year I’ve won this prestigious award and yet, the feeling hasn’t changed. Still the same mixture of disbelief, gratitude, and vulnerability…because sharing art has always meant showing the parts of me that aren’t certain I didn’t think I’d need photography as much as I do. After all these years of documenting people’s stories, I’ve learned that whether in this life or in photography, it’s all about finding and appreciating the coexistence of light and shadow Without shadow, we don’t quite appreciate the existence of light Without light, there is nothing to immortalize Sometimes, light already exists, we just have to be aware enough to invite it in Sometimes, we have to find our own light even when darkness descends upon us…. If I can find light in photography, I know I can find it again and again in this lifetime. Because art, like light, only exists when we allow ourselves to be seen Thank you L and F for trusting in me enough to share the light on this day with me, for walking through the forest in their white dresses, for embracing the cold wind to see how beautiful Mt. Baker is during blue hour Thank you to Junebug Weddings and all the incredible judges @memorybox_photo, @belleartphotography,  @gpresets  I know choosing the top 50 out of thousands of images from photographers all over the world isn’t an easy job. I am honored to be one among these amazing artists. Photos on film and digital Digital photos captured on @sonyalpha and edited with @hdpresets Photography: @henrysdiary Florals: @tangledrootsfloral HMUA: @mstimssmakeupartist Venye: @mtbakerhyggehus
The elopement world has changed so much since 2020 The elopement world has changed so much since 2020, and part of me grew afraid that all these shifts might change the way I approach storytelling someone’s wedding day It was once a down low experience where people can break away from traditions, feel the courage inside their hearts to go after what they truly feel strongly about, let go of all the societal pressure, and arrive at the level of honesty they feel in their bones. Their truth, Their love, Their story, ….all stripped down to its most honest shape And slowly, somehow, it felt more and more like a glorified photoshoot. I stopped sharing work at a certain locations because it didn’t feel right to have a couple waiting in line…in nature…for photos. Then I found a page in my journal “Just because you understand a piece of thing doesn’t mean you understand the entirety of it” And it hit me. Just because I am an elopement photographer doesn’t mean I know everything about elopements. People have the choice to elope however way they want. The only thing I can fully control is how I show up, how I approach elopements, and how I honor their story, their intention, their. day. For P and C, knowing their family couldn’t be there, although they desperately wanted them to, I wanted to focus on the experience and photos they could take home and show their parents …to show how beautiful Tofino was on a cold September day, where the fog wrapped around the cliffs but never fully hid the sun …to show how they ran on the shoreline, tasted the silty mist on their tongues, and laughed like they were the only two people in the world …to show how quiet the forest became as they walked together…almost like the world softened a bit just enough to make space for them. …to show how they held onto each other, not for a photo, but just because the moment moved them. Because someday, when their parents flip through these photos, I hope they don’t just see what Tofino looked like. I hope they feel what their children felt…and that is more than I could ever hope for being a wedding photographer Thank you P and C for trusting me with your day Film and digitals Photography @henrysdiary on @sonyalpha / @hdpresets
I’m not going to lie. This year, I struggled creat I’m not going to lie. This year, I struggled creatively more than ever before I love creativity I love observing people and sprinkle their joy into each photograph I love being conceptual, playing with light, pushing the limits of what people think wedding photography should be But somewhere along the way, I think I scrolled a little too much. Social media tends to do that. It’s where I found my community, my people…Many of whom I’ve never met (yet)...we all live in different time zones…yet somehow, we all speak the same language of joy, art, small business grit, and that is how we lift each other up But social media is also where the world feels like it’s constantly screaming at you And for me, as a wedding photographer, I felt like I needed to do more…more flash, more editorial, more high end, more, more and more 8 years into photographing weddings yet somehow, the comparison game doesn’t seem to end now does it? And then I received an email from M and A: “We love the moody photos and the lantern photos…The more artistic the better” The night before their wedding, I sat alone in my hotel room going over all the emails we had and all the notes I prepared The one thing I never prepare in advance is what photos I’ll take The thing about creativity in weddings is that you can’t pre-plan everything You have to create space You have to leave room for moments to breathe In that moment, I felt this jolt of energy, almost like a permission to be free, to create, to fail, to go in without really knowing exactly what will happen next, and most importantly, to experience it all. I think that’s the true joy of photography And if we zoom out even further…it’s the true joy of weddings and elopements, too So I brought the lanterns They brought their glow-in-the-dark hair and tattoos And the Oregon coast brought some unexpected sunshine on a late October day. Thank you M and A for this freedom to create and congratulations again on your beautiful marriage Digitals on @sonyalpha and edited with @hdpresets Films developed and scanned by @gelatinlabs
Grateful for this season of life where parenthood Grateful for this season of life where parenthood teaches us that the greatest gift we can offer someone is that feeling of safety and the permission to feel at home in their own skin, to know their worth, to know that simply being who they are is enough. Grateful for my husband and his love language. Grateful for how he cares for all of us, whether we’re at home or a random hotel halfway across the world where I am documenting other people’s love stories. And even though traveling with twin babies isn’t always easy, we still get to be together…as a family. And that’s everything I ever need. Grateful for our family and friends for being the anchor we can lean on. Grateful for all of you, whether you are our clients or simply internet friends who happen to follow along the adventure that is our life, you help us achieve and live this quiet, ordinary-yet-extraordinary dream Grateful for this chapter, this day, this moment, this life! Thank you, thank you, thank you. Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours. 🍂🧡🍁 ——— Photographed on @sonyalpha a7iv, 28-70mm GM Edited with @hdpresets in @lightroom

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