{"id":38332,"date":"2017-08-03T06:01:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T06:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=38332"},"modified":"2017-08-03T06:04:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T06:04:15","slug":"new-way-to-wed-engaged-couples-opt-for-help-from-elopement-planners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/smart-living\/new-way-to-wed-engaged-couples-opt-for-help-from-elopement-planners.html","title":{"rendered":"New way to wed: Engaged couples opt for help from elopement planners"},"content":{"rendered":"

New way to wed: Engaged couples opt for help from elopement planners<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

New way to wed: Engaged couples opt for help from elopement planners:- Some engaged couples who feel overwhelmed or disenchanted by the cost and stress of a traditional wedding are opting to elope and are turning to experts for help.<\/span><\/p>\n

This new style of elopement may have less in common with what the term has traditionally meant \u2014 running away in secret to marry \u2014 and more with just a small, simple wedding with minimal emotional baggage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lorie Smith and John Tremaine had a change of heart about their dream wedding after they began planning the ceremony and saw the likely price tag.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m looking at ‘weddings on a budget,’ and they’re like, ‘Have a wedding for $10,000,’ and that was a small wedding. And I was like, ‘Oh, whoa, no,'” Smith told ABC News. “We just decided, ‘Let’s just elope.'”<\/span><\/p>\n

The couple came across The Elopement Co., based in Charlotte, North Carolina, which specializes in helping plan what may be actual elopements or just simple weddings, including at courthouses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Charity Parrish, the company’s founder and creative coordinator, organized Smith and Tremaine’s nuptials in three days. She told ABC News that her company provides a service similar to traditional wedding planning but on a “much smaller scale.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“I don’t have to think of things like caterers and a band and a dance floor and linens on a table,” she said. “Most of it is stuff that I can handle by myself. I bring the cupcakes. I bring the officiant. I make the flowers myself. I put it all together. I work with amazing people in town to get dresses and locations.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Parrish worked with Smith and Tremaine to help make their ceremony at McGill Rose Garden in Charlotte stress-free and celebratory.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We didn’t have to do anything,” Tremaine said.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I didn’t have to worry about a bridesmaid and what they were going to wear and what this person was going to think if I didn’t ask that person and all that stuff,” Smith said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Parrish believes she has found a niche market for people who would rather spend less money on a wedding but still want to mark their union in a festive way.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I think a lot of couples these days are trying to be really smart about their decisions. And instead of spending [$20,000] to $30,000 on a wedding, they’re putting that money toward a house, a car, having a child, going on a great vacation,” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Smith’s dressmaker and makeup artist for the big day said they have noticed an influx of interest in eloping or having scaled-down weddings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Smith’s dressmaker and makeup artist for her big day said they also noticed an influx of interest in eloping or having scaled-down weddings.<\/span><\/p>\n

“A lot of our newer clients are from brides eloping,” Erin Foley, a dressmaker for RCB Fashion, told ABC News. “It’s gotten to the point where we almost have to turn down work. We’re so busy,”<\/span><\/p>\n

“I’m seeing more clients who are eloping,” said Lindsay Pizzuti, the bride’s makeup artist. “To me, it totally makes sense, especially for people who are more laid back and nontraditional.”<\/span><\/p>\n

While running away to Las Vegas may never be out of fashion, Smith said she would recommend planned elopement to others.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Eloping was really fun,” she said of her and Tremaine’s midweek marriage ceremony. “Everyone else is at work, and we got to run off and get married.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Lifestyle\/wed-engaged-couples-opt-elopement-planners\/story?id=48983758<\/span><\/p>\n

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