Beaty Creative Photography

Exciting news to share today 🥳

Not one ☝🏻 but TWO ✌🏻 of my images from 2025 elopements won Elopement Legend Awards!!

Fewer than 7% of entries are selected for an award, and I was fortunate enough to have two picked. ✨️🥹

Feeling so grateful for all the love my 2025 couples are getting. 🫶🏻

I have more exciting news to share with y'all, but those things will be saved for the near future. 👀

"No taksies backsies" 🫶🏻

S + Q traveled from Indiana to Arkansas with their family for an intimate elopement at Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs. They rented out a few cozy Airbnbs all clustered together just outside of the downtown area to spend a few days visiting one of the best towns we have here in the Natural State 🥹

Eureka Springs is seriously such a great place for an Arkansas elopement. Everything you need for a great trip and elopement experience is right in town. ✨️

This is for the couples who aren't afraid to elope in the romance of rain and mud 👀

Alaska will be looking like this in about two months.

Snow-capped mountains, lush greens, and moody rains. ✨️🌧

Dress soaking up the adventure, bouquet dripping with life. 🥾💐

I've seen Alaska under sun and clouds and I truthfully don't think I could pick a favorite for an elopement adventure.

These nature inspired glass chapels are some of the most beautiful wedding venues in the world. 🌎

💫 There's 360° views of nature through clear glass windows and unique architecture.

🌿 Being inside these glass chapels gives a sense of tranquility and connection to Earth, while enjoying the comfort of the indoors no matter the weather outside.

✨️ 'Ethereal' and 'Holy' are often words used to describe being inside these venues - if not for religion but the art of intention that came from the designs of famous architect E. Fay Jones.

Couples from all over travel to Arkansas for destination weddings and elopements at these three stunning venues. Would you? 👀

👉🏻 You can find links to info about Cooper Chapel, Anthony Chapel, and Thorncrown Chapel in my 'Arkansas Guides' highlights! Save this to look back on later to quickly access those links when you're ready to start deciding which you're gonna plan your dream day at! And then you can give me a holler to document the day since I'm frequently at all three 😉

Yes, that's a sock store sign we took a photo in front of 🧦 (Barefoot is their last name! 👣). The couple specifically requested it saying "this is gonna sound weird, but..." 😂

A + S wanted to elope in Eureka Springs. It's a great honeymoon spot, and a big bonus that it's so q***r friendly. But - they wanted to elope somewhere different from where everyone usually elopes in Eureka Springs.

✨️🦋🐚🔮 Enter Quigley's Castle 🔮🐚🦋✨️

Quigley's Castle was intentionally crafted by Elise Quigley in the 1940s. The woman was driven to have her dream home, to the point she asked her children to help her tear down their lumber home one day while her husband was away at work. 🫥 They had no choice but to start building the home she was envisioning. 😂

🪟 There's 28 huge windows for natural light (it took years to get these during the war, so they had to cover the openings to survive the winters).

🌸 There's bare earth along the edge of the living space to bring the outdoors inside - the oldest plants in here are 70+ years old!

🏡The house exterior was covered in fossils, crystals, arrowheads and more that Elise had been collecting since she was a child.

🦋 There's a bedroom with an entire wall of butterfly taxidermy

🎨 The property is full of homemade art and love for nature

❤️ Today, the house is registered with the National Historic Places on HGTV and owned by her great granddaughter, who has welcomed people inside to marvel at the family home as a popular tourist stop. It's truly a remarkable place with so much love and thought put into it.

This easily became one of my favorite unique elopement spots in Arkansas after this day.