Moab Elopement Photographers

Arches National Park

Canyonlands National Park

Utah Public Lands

Meet your Moab-local elopement photographers

We know this area like it’s our backyard, because it is!
We’re comfortable in this landscape and confident in our ability to give you an incredible elopement experience in Moab
We’re well-versed on the local regulations, up-to-date permitting, and recent news that could affect location access
We know the weather patterns, norms, and how to handle surprises
We’re well connected with local vendors, lodging, and land management offices
We are involved in the local community and regularly give our resources, time, and money to support our small town

Hi! We’re Abbi & Callen Hearne, Moab locals with a true dream job: helping couples have the most incredible adventure elopement (or photo session!) in our backyard desert. We live a half hour from Arches National Park, an hour from Canyonlands National Park, and can literally walk out our door to access hundreds of acres of public desert land (which would probably be a National Park in any other state, but Utah already has five 😉). We spend most of our free time adventuring out here; we love rock climbing, canyoneering, pack-rafting, off-roading, camping, hiking, dirt-biking, even ice climbing and ice skating in the winter!

With these adventures, we’re always thinking of new ideas for elopements, finding remote locations, and gaining more experience to show up with when planning your elopement. When we’re coordinating location and adventure ideas with you in the months leading up to the big day(s), we can easily go out and get boots on the ground to really visualize and plan everything with you in mind. Living here means we can network with local vendors, stay up-to-date on land access and permitting with local management offices, and be aware of upcoming events when picking your specific dates.

When your elopement week finally arrives, we’re checking weather forecasts and watching the skies from home, always ready to make last-minute adjustments or suggestions as needed. We’ve lent jackets and accessories from our own closet, had couples ship items straight to our house, and even helped with lodging when things fell through last-minute. Our home is here and that means you’ll feel “at home” too when you’re working with us in this wild, remote place.

Arches National Park

Just a few miles north of downtown Moab is the entrance to Arches National Park, home to the highest concentration of natural arches anywhere in the world. There is truly nowhere on earth that compares to Arches and nothing can prepare you for the feeling of standing underneath these massive, natural sculptures. The park is a wonderland of narrow canyons, desert towers, sandy washes, and of course, sandstone arches! As locals, we know the best times to go into the park to avoid crowds, where to go for incredible photos (many just a short hike from the car - perfect for sunrise portraits), and quiet places to find solitude in this popular area. Being so close to town, it’s an easy option to add to an adventurous day.

Canyonlands National Park

Canyonlands National Park is often overlooked because Arches is (rightfully so) on everyone’s travel destination bucket list, but don’t sleep on this epic park. Our favorite section, Island in the Sky, is just under an hour outside of Moab and is aptly named: this area is the very end of a massive mesa jutting into the never-ending desert below. Positioned hundreds of feet above the surrounding landscape, it’s the best way to access huge cliffs, sweeping views, and my favorite sunset spots in Moab. Canyonlands has perfect locations to watch the sunrise behind the La Sal mountains to the east, or watch the sunset behind the Henry mountains to the west. Wherever you go in Canyonlands, the views will be epic and you can often find solitude in this lesser-known park.

Utah Public Lands

One of the unique things about Moab is that it’s not only the gateway to two National Parks, but also over 800,000 acres of BLM public land. Most of this land is open-access and is epic enough to be a National Park if it were in any other state, but Utah already has five parks so we get to explore this land with less regulations and more solitude. Some of our favorite places in Moab are on BLM land. Unlike in the parks, BLM land allows dogs, less regulated off-roading, drone photography, and even remote airplane access. But truly the best part about eloping on BLM land is the solitude; with this much land and two nearby parks to attract the majority of tourists, it’s incredibly easy to find epic, quiet locations that you’ll have to yourself on your elopement day.