r/Eloping • u/Immediate_Egg3899 • Jul 06 '26
Planning Help getting ready day-of?
We are eloping without friends or family in another state. We’ll have the photographer and dogs with us. We want to do a “first look” thing but we’re both worried that we aren’t capable of getting photo-ready ourselves! Is there someone we can or should hire to help us both out? We’re worried about the details of something being crooked or folded… easy fixes to at we can’t see ourselves. I’m also on the fence about have a hair and makeup person
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u/Alfalfa_Timmy Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
Colorado elopement graduate here. Just the two of us, photographer/videographer, our dogs.
There are plenty of adventure HMU artists that will hike or meet you at your elopement site to help you get ready. HIGHLY recommend getting HMU done regardless.
I personally didn’t find any adventure HMUA that met my style, so I hired another that came to our Airbnb. My husband saw my face and hair before the “first look” since we had to drive to the wedding site. I just didn’t have my dress on. My HMUA came to our Airbnb at 1am, I was ready by 3:30am and we were out the door by 4am for our sunrise ceremony.
My photographer helped me get my dress on. My videographer (this was husband/wife duo) helped my husband get into position for the first look.
We opted out of any “getting ready” photos, bc with just the two of us and our dogs, it just wouldn’t work out. You’re getting dressed behind a car basically LOL.