There's a particular kind of quiet that only exists when it's just the two of you. No program, no seating chart, no hundred small obligations pulling your attention in a hundred directions. Just the place you chose, the light doing whatever it's going to do that day, and the two of you standing in the middle of it — finally still, for what might be the first time in months.

The best elopement photographs are never really about the location. They come from the quiet in between — the walk to wherever you're standing, the moment right before you say anything, the way two people look at each other when there's no one else left to perform for. They come from someone who knows when to stay completely out of the way and when to be close enough to catch it anyway.

Everything else, we can sort out between us.