Some places don’t have names on a map — and that’s exactly the point. To make the most of some photo-friendly weather conditions Scott flew Georgia and Bradd to one of his secret alpine spots on Vanguard Peak. What unfolded was the kind of wedding day that feels less like an event and more like a dream you’re not quite sure you’ll ever wake from.

August in the Southern Alps can mean still days and a hushed quiet that only comes when the mountains are covered in snow and wrapped in cloud. And on this particular morning, Vanguard Peak was perfectly, spectacularly shrouded — wisps of cloud drifting through the surrounding mountains like smoke.

They were, quite literally, above the clouds.

Celebrant Sarah Noble has a gift for making a mountain feel like the most intimate place in the world. She’s warm, funny, and just the right amount of irreverent.

There’s no audience at an elopement. No rows of chairs, no one checking their phone. Just two people, their words and the mountains looking on. The Simple is Beautiful package is exactly that: everything you need, nothing you don’t, in one of the most spectacular settings on earth.

The winter light at altitude has a quality that doesn’t exist anywhere else. Soft and diffused it flattens shadows and softens edges. The images from this elopement are exactly what a winter mountain wedding should look like: ethereal, quiet, deeply romantic. The kind of photographs you’ll still be looking at in thirty years, wondering if it was really real.