While traditional weddings follow a fairly standard script that most people have come to anticipate, one of the most beautiful aspects of an elopement ceremony – much like an elopement day itself – is its flexibility. But that freedom to create your own ceremony sometimes leaves couples wondering: “What exactly happens during an elopement ceremony?”

Lately I’ve been seeing an influx of posts in the wedding community online of couples looking for officiants for their small, intimate weddings or elopements. Having moved to Colorado from Iowa, and getting married here after the move, I had a perception of the marriage process that many of the state’s transplants do. That a […]