Adrianne Miller is an elopement blogger at SimplyElope.com and we discuss why we love elopements.
This episode’s drinks:
Adrianne was drinking Death Wish coffee and I was drinking a vanilla latte.
Topics we covered:
- How Adrianne came to blog about elopements
- What makes an elopement different from an intimate wedding
- How Adrianne and I discovered each other
- Why we love elopements so much
- Dream elopement locations
- We gush about the romance of weddings as dedicated romantics
- Officiant blindness (you know I’ll rant about this)
- The pre-ceremony pow-wow I do before the wedding
- Why wedding coordinators and planners are so necessary on wedding day
- What is a concierge elopement service?
- What makes an amazing elopement
- Why professionals make all the different, even for an elopement
- I share several wonderful and ridiculous elopement stories with Adrianne
- Common misconceptions about elopements
- Big weddings are a fairly new concept
- Ethnic and cultural wedding traditions
- How we’ve experienced different people breaking down on wedding day (if they do at all)
- How loved ones unwittingly create stress for the couple on wedding day
- The one thing that Adrianne asks wedding guests to NOT do at the wedding
- What Adrianne recommends to keep in mind for your elopement
- Why so many couples elope and then have the big wedding later (you can have both!!)
Links to the awesome things and people mentioned:
- Death Wish coffee (http://bit.ly/drinksdeathwish)
- Bethel Nathan of Ceremonies by Bethel (http://bit.ly/bethelisawesome)