SAVANNAH PROPER ELOPEMENTS
Intimate wedding experiences thoughtfully planned, beautifully orchestrated, and artfully documented in Savannah, Georgia.
Curated Savannah Elopements and Micro-Weddings
Savannah has a way of making intimate moments feel extraordinary. Beneath its live oaks, among its historic squares, inside its elegant hotels, and above the city on its romantic rooftops, even the simplest ceremony can become an unforgettable wedding day.
Savannah Proper Elopements brings together local insight, thoughtful planning, internationally awarded photography and filmmaking, officiant services, and a carefully selected collection of Savannah professionals. From a quiet ceremony for two to an intimate celebration with family and friends, we make the experience feel personal, beautiful, and remarkably easy.
More Than a Ceremony
Your elopement can still feel like a complete wedding day.
Choosing an elopement does not mean giving up the moments that make a wedding meaningful. You may still want the anticipation of getting ready, the emotion of seeing one another for the first time, a beautiful bouquet, live music as you exchange vows, portraits through Savannah, and champagne and cake as the sun sets above the city.
Some couples want only a meaningful ceremony and extraordinary photographs. Others imagine an entire Savannah experience that begins at their hotel and continues through dinner, rooftop cocktails, or a romantic evening beneath the city lights.
Savannah Proper allows you to begin simply and thoughtfully add the moments that matter most to you.
Savannah Elopement Experiences
Begin with the experience that feels most like you.
The Essential Savannah Elopement
A relaxed and meaningful ceremony created for couples who want to keep everything beautifully simple.
Includes:
• A pre-elopement planning consultation
• Location and timing guidance
• A professional wedding officiant
• One hour of photography by Charles or Jennifer Maring
• A private online gallery
• Final photographs delivered within two weeks
Beginning at $1,425 in Forsyth Park or a selected Historic District square.
A ceremony and portrait experience that allows more time to explore the beauty and atmosphere of Savannah.
The Savannah Story may include your ceremony, an extended portrait experience through the Historic District, a bouquet and boutonnière, a small wedding cake, champagne, or another thoughtful moment designed around the two of you.
This experience is ideal for couples who want more than a one-hour ceremony without planning an entire wedding day.
The Savannah Story
The Savannah Wedding Day
An intimate wedding can still have a beginning, middle, and beautiful finale.
Your experience may begin with candid getting-ready photography at your hotel, followed by a first look, a ceremony beneath the live oaks, portraits throughout Savannah, and a private cake cutting or champagne toast. Live music, transportation, cinematic film coverage, dinner planning, or a rooftop sunset can be woven into the day.
Every Savannah Wedding Day is shaped around the couple rather than a predetermined formula, and extending the experience allows for editorial style storytelling within your photography.
Savannah Proper Micro-Weddings
For couples celebrating with their closest family and friends, Savannah Proper creates intimate weddings that feel considered, welcoming, and complete.
Micro-wedding experiences may include venue guidance, ceremony planning, permits, flowers, live music, cake, champagne, guest transportation, photography, filmmaking, accommodations, dining, and day-of coordination.
Because guest counts, venues, and hospitality needs vary, each micro-wedding is individually designed and quoted.
The Savannah Dream Collection
Four distinctive ways to imagine your intimate wedding.
Garden Romance
Exchange vows beneath Savannah’s live oaks or within one of its historic squares. Soft florals, acoustic music, luminous photography, and a private champagne toast create a timeless Savannah experience.
Gilded Savannah
Historic architecture, elegant interiors, refined florals, and fashion-inspired portraiture come together in an experience that feels intimate, artistic, and quietly luxurious.
Above the City
Begin beneath the oaks and conclude above Savannah. A ceremony in the Historic District can be followed by sunset portraits, champagne, and cake overlooking the city from a rooftop or private terrace.
Savannah After Dark
Designed for couples drawn to cinematic atmosphere, Savannah After Dark follows the city into twilight through glowing streets, historic architecture, silhouettes, shadows, champagne, and editorial portraiture.
These collections are creative starting points rather than fixed themes. Colors, flowers, music, locations, and personal details can be refined to reflect your own style and story.
A REAL SAVANNAH MICRO WEDDING
From Private Vows to a Rooftop Celebration
Tim and Daniella exchanged vows beneath the live oaks of Forsyth Park with their closest loved ones before exploring Savannah’s Historic District for portraits. The celebration continued at Churchill’s with dinner, live blues, cake, and dancing among family and friends. Their wedding offers a beautiful example of how an intimate ceremony can become a complete and deeply personal Savannah experience.
Photography and Film by Maring
The experience is thoughtfully created because the way it will be remembered matters.
Created across extraordinary celebrations and destinations around the world, this portfolio reflects the experience, artistry, and editorial perspective behind every Savannah Proper Elopement. Charles and Jennifer Maring bring decades of internationally recognized photography and filmmaking to each intimate wedding, approaching every celebration with the same imagination, care, and uncompromising attention to detail.
Photography and filmmaking for Savannah Proper Elopements are provided by Maring Visuals, led by internationally awarded photographers and filmmakers Charles and Jennifer Maring.
Their work has been recognized with the Grand Award of the International Wedding Photography Awards, three Kodak Gallery Awards, and two Fuji Masterpiece Awards. Over decades of photographing weddings and celebrations, they have been trusted by Presidents, celebrities, renowned planners, and discerning families around the world.
Their approach combines honest documentary moments blended with refined editorial portraiture. Getting-ready candids, ceremony emotions, architectural grandeur, movement, atmosphere, and the fleeting moments between the expected ones are woven together into a complete visual story.
Photography and film are created with one visual language, allowing your wedding to feel cohesive, cinematic, and unmistakably personal.
Explore Savannah elopement photography and film by Maring Visuals
Thoughtful Additions
Personalize your celebration with the details that matter to you.
Your Savannah Proper Elopement may be enhanced with:
• Getting-ready photography
• A first look
• Bouquet and boutonnière
• Wedding cake
• Champagne toast
• Ceremony guitarist, vocalist, violinist, or other musician
• Photography in additional Savannah locations
• Ceremony and romantic filmmaking
• Content creation coverage
• Fine art infrared black and white photography
• Same-day photography or film delivery
• Hair and makeup recommendations
• Classic or private transportation
• Rooftop portraits or celebration
• Private dining arrangements
• Wedding albums and framed portraits
Availability and pricing vary according to the date, location, and professionals involved. We will help you select additions that genuinely enhance the experience rather than add unnecessary complexity.
From Arrival Through “I Do”
Savannah Proper can help your wedding become part of a complete Savannah stay.
For many couples, an elopement is also a romantic destination experience. Through our relationship with Squire Travel and Events, Savannah Proper can assist with accommodations, flights, transportation, restaurant recommendations, private dining, rooftop experiences, guest itineraries, and honeymoon planning.
Squire Travel has served travelers for more than one hundred years. Jennifer Maring is a certified travel advisor who understands how the wedding day and the surrounding journey can be planned as one seamless experience.
Whether you envision a quiet historic inn, a sophisticated luxury hotel, a coastal stay on Tybee Island, or a full Savannah weekend with the people closest to you, our team can help bring the pieces together.
A Simple and Thoughtful Process
One trusted local team from the first conversation through the final photographs.
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Share your date, guest count, preferred setting, and the moments you would like to include.
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We will help you select the appropriate starting collection and thoughtfully personalize it.
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Depending upon your plans, we will bring together the officiant, photographer, filmmaker, florist, musician, baker, travel advisor, coordinator, or hospitality partners needed for your day.
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We will develop the timeline, confirm locations, discuss ceremony preferences, and make sure everyone understands the plan.
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When your wedding day arrives, you can experience Savannah and one another while trusted professionals take care of the details.
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Your photographs and films will preserve not only how everything looked, but how the experience felt.
Why Savannah Proper?
Local knowledge, worldly experience, and an artist’s eye.
Savannah Proper was created by Charles and Jennifer Maring as a curated lens on the art, history, culture, hospitality, and experiences that make Savannah extraordinary.
As longtime photographers, filmmakers, travelers, and storytellers, Charles and Jennifer do more than recommend beautiful places. They understand how locations change with the light, how the city moves throughout the day, which settings feel intimate, and how an experience will translate into photographs and film.
Years ago, Charles and Jennifer worked alongside celebrated wedding designer David Tutera and Disney to help bring Disney Couture Weddings to life. That experience reinforced an idea that continues to shape their work today: couples appreciate having a beautifully imagined starting point, but the most meaningful celebrations ultimately feel like their own.
Savannah Proper Elopements brings that same philosophy to intimate weddings in Savannah.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Yes. The Essential Savannah Elopement includes officiant services, planning guidance, and one hour of photography by Charles or Jennifer Maring. Additional elements are entirely optional.
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Yes. Getting-ready coverage can be included within an extended elopement experience. These moments add anticipation, atmosphere, and a meaningful beginning to the visual story.
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Yes. Small groups can be included in many experiences. Larger guest counts, seating, décor, or organized setups may require a city permit, security, additional coordination, or a private venue. We will help determine what is appropriate.
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Yes. We consider guest count, time of day, season, privacy, accessibility, photography, atmosphere, and any permit requirements when recommending a location.
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These elements can be incorporated through Savannah Proper’s preferred local professionals. Offerings depend upon availability and the details of your experience.
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Yes. Maring Visuals provides integrated photography and filmmaking so both are approached with a consistent editorial and cinematic style.
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Yes. Squire Travel and Events can assist with hotel accommodations, transportation, flights, guest travel, dining recommendations, Savannah experiences, and honeymoon planning.
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Outdoor elopements are planned as rain-or-shine celebrations. Clear umbrellas can create beautiful photographs during light rain. For more elaborate experiences, we can explore private locations or hotel partnerships that provide an indoor alternative.
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Simple weekday elopements can sometimes be arranged with relatively short notice. Micro-weddings, rooftop experiences, hotel celebrations, musicians, and other enhanced plans should be arranged as early as possible to secure availability.
Your Savannah Story Begins Here
Tell us what you imagine, and we will help bring the experience together.
Your wedding does not need to be large to feel extraordinary. It simply needs to be personal, meaningful, and created with care.
Whether you envision quiet vows beneath the live oaks, getting ready inside an elegant Savannah hotel, a musician performing your favorite song, portraits through the Historic District, or champagne above the city as evening arrives, Savannah Proper will help you create a wedding day that feels entirely your own.