Top Ten Reasons Maggie Valley Brides Elope

1.    Want to get married outdoors in the mountains

2.    Just want a meaningful, intimate ceremony

3.    Her mother

4.    It's romantic to keep the wedding their special secret

5.    Too many people telling them what their wedding should be

6.    Not all the family on both sides could attend

7.    All the family on both sides could attend

8.    Rather spend the budget on the honeymoon

9.    His mother

10.  Nothing more breathtaking than a bride emerging from the forest

A stolen streamside kiss

Why yes, we *are* deep in the forest.

Timberwolf Creek
Maggie Valley Weddings
Maggie Valley, North Carolina

Gotta love the boots. Gotta.

Absolutely have to love the boots. The boots ROCK. I love it when the wedding couple has a sense of humor. These two are going to laugh together their whole lives. I wish they lived right next door. Don't you?

Timberwolf Creek
Maggie Valley Weddings
Maggie Valley, North Carolina

Makes YOU smile, too, doesn't it!

Nothing better than True Love. :)

Timberwolf Creek
Maggie Valley, North Carolina

A breathtakingly beautiful bridal portrait

Sometimes, it just all comes together - even without a studio! A beautiful bride, an exquisite gown, and a gently removed background. She was simply aglow, and deserved to be the only thing in the portrait.

Timberwolf Creek
Maggie Valley Weddings

Outdoor Wedding with Five Bridesmaids

If there were a prize for Most Attendants in our little outdoor wedding chapel, this one would win --hands down. Ten! Imagine! In our tiny chapel!

And I have to say, it was beautiful, it was wondrous, it was magical - to see the forest adrift in women in lovely gowns accompanied by tuxedoed gentlemen. They each emerged from the top of the clearing, floated along the stone path by the pond, down the steps, and followed the curving pathway to the altar. One would be approaching the alter, as the next was in the middle, just coming down the stairs, and another appearing from deep within the forest. Again, and again, and again.

Like a dream.

Sunny day in Maggie Valley

We had to move this couple's wedding to their reception site because it was raining like mad. The ceremony was still lovely, the friends and family and celebration just as warm, but OH how wonderful that they wanted to come the next day for their photo shoot on the property! All the guests at Timberwolf Creek had checked out, and we had access to everything. The bride and groom were so happy to be in the sunshine, that they climbed right down to the edge of the creek for the shot of the year. Doesn't this one just take your breath away?! And they had lots of fun coming up with innovative ideas, like the bride up in the balcony of the upstairs gazebo, with the groom standing on the ground below. "What light through yonder window breaks? Tis the East, and Juliet is the sun." Sigh! Such romance.

Getting her complete attention

Wow.

Handsome Groom in Smoky Mountain Wedding

Well, of COURSE all our grooms are handsome men, and we do enjoy taking their pictures. But there was no way I was going to let this one get away without a tip of the hat. I do wish all our grooms would wear hats, sigh! This one is timeless.

Mountain Elopement filled with Laughter

We never laughed so much with a wedding at Timberwolf Creek.  Ever.  This entire event was wreathed in smiles and overflowing with the sound of laughter!  My very favorite moment?  When the somewhat nervous bride murmured to her new husband that she wasn't sure how to cut the cake.  The groom was overheard quietly reassuring her that she could slice it any way she liked, and it would be just fine...  Until she actually touched the knife to the cake and he cried out, "No!  Not there!"

What a great day.  What a wonderful, warm, fun-filled beginning to a lifetime together.  Congratulations, y'all

Our Wedding at Timberwolf Creek

The picture just says it all. Ah, true love!

What a GLORIOUS day for a wedding!

Now, I knew it was a spectacularly beautiful summer day in the mountains.  But when I saw this photo, I asked asked Larry, "Is this retouched?"  Because just look at that sky.  But he just smiled and said, "Nope.  We live in paradise."  And surely heaven smiled on this wedding day.  Glorious is exactly the right word.