The Blueprints
Are Here
Two interactive planning guides for couples getting married in Northwest Montana. Everything I tell my own couples, in one place you can keep.
Every couple I photograph asks me the same handful of questions in their first month of planning. What does this actually cost up here? Which venues fit a hundred guests? When does the light go in September? Do you really need a permit to elope in Glacier, and where are you even allowed to stand?
I have answered those questions hundreds of times, over coffee, on phone calls, in long emails written at midnight. And every time, I wished I had one place to point couples to. Not a generic checklist pulled from a wedding blog in another state, but the real, local, slightly opinionated version. The one that knows Many Glacier is an hour from your hotel and that August can bring smoke.
So I built it. Two guides, actually, because a full Flathead Valley wedding and an elopement in Glacier are different animals. They are not static PDFs. They are interactive guides you open in your browser, with tools that do the math for you and answers grounded in how these days actually come together in this corner of Montana.
made for the couples I wish I could buy coffee for
I wanted to give couples the head start I give my own clients, whether or not they ever book me.
Two ways to plan your day
The Flathead Valley
Wedding Blueprint
For a wedding with guests, vendors, and a venue. The full picture, organized.
- A budget builder with real valley price ranges
- 20+ venues, mapped and filterable by style
- 60+ vetted local vendors across 11 categories
- A day-of timeline built around your sunset
- All 12 months broken down by light and pricing
- 20 interactive tools that save your progress
The Glacier
Elopement Blueprint
For saying I do inside Glacier National Park, with the logistics handled.
- The Glacier permit process, explained
- Ceremony locations by park district
- An interactive map of the best spots
- A month-by-month planning timeline
- The Montana marriage license, step by step
- Park rules, Leave No Trace, and access windows
both blueprints are waiting just below this post
A few quick answers
Are these PDFs?
No, and that is the point. Each Blueprint is an interactive web file you open in your browser. The maps actually pan, the tools actually calculate, and your progress saves as you go. A PDF could never.
Do I have to be local to use them?
Not at all. If anything, they are most useful for couples planning a Montana wedding or elopement from somewhere else. The local knowledge is the whole reason they exist.
Which one should I buy?
Planning a celebration with guests and a venue? Start with the Wedding Blueprint. Eloping in the park, just the two of you? The Elopement Blueprint. Doing a little of both? Many couples grab the pair.
Do I need to book you to get one?
Nope. The Blueprints are yours to use whether we ever work together or not. And if they make you want to chat about photography, my inbox is always open.
Plan Your Montana Day, the Easy Way
Here they are. Two blueprints, every answer, yours to keep.
One guide. The whole wedding. Venues, vendors, budgets, timelines, and 20 interactive planning tools, all built by the photographer who's at these venues every weekend from May through October.
One guide. Every answer. Permits, locations, vendors, packing lists, budgets, and timing tools, all built by someone who has hiked into these sites in dress shoes.