Have you heard of an artist statement? Basically, it’s a written statement that drives your work, and something that represents you as a photographer. If you don’t have one, it can definitely change the game for your elopement photography business. 

 

Writing an artist statement can sometimes feel like a struggle, but my guest, Colorado-based elopement photographer, Meagan Lawler, breaks it down in a way that’s easy to understand. Meagan shares her artist statement, how to begin writing your own, and the importance of taking time to figure out what really inspires you.

 

If you want to feel even more connected to the work you’re already creating, then you’re going to want to hit play on this one! 

 

Connect with Meagan:  Website: meaganlawler.com Instagram: @meaganelawler TikTok: @meaganelawler

 

Connect with Megan: 🔥 Join Stoked Academy! The only membership community for elopement photographers ready to hit six figures in their business without hustling on social media.     All for less than the cost of a new memory card for your camera.     🔥 Learn more about The Elopement Photographer Mastermind™️.     If this episode made you feel stoked, be sure to share it with a friend, leave a review, or DM me on Instagram at @‌stokedwithmeganmacphail and let me know your thoughts.     You can also connect with me on my website:www.meganmacphail.com     STOKED with Megan MacPhail guides entrepreneurs in scaling their elopement photography business to achieve six-figure income, financial freedom, and adventure-filled travel while growing their photography career.

Does booking your first $5K elopement feel impossible? Well, what if I told you it’s totally doable? In fact, the photographers I work with have been doing it even faster than I was able to do it on my own! Today, Todd and I are revealing the 5 steps - align, attract, convert, funnel, and plan - to successfully book your first $5K elopement.

 

You will learn how to know your worth and target the right clients, get a clear roadmap to optimize your website and implement effective marketing strategies, and hear proven tips to create an incredible elopement experience that clients will rave about.

 

Plus, we provide an exclusive look into The Elopement Photography Mastermind, which is now accepting applications! This program is designed to elevate your business with coaching, resources, and community support.

 

Hit play now to start booking those $5K elopements you’ve been dreaming about!

 

Connect with Megan: 🔥 Join Stoked Academy! The only membership community for elopement photographers ready to hit six figures in their business without hustling on social media.     All for less than the cost of a new memory card for your camera.     🔥 Learn more about The Elopement Photographer Mastermind™️.     If this episode made you feel stoked, be sure to share it with a friend, leave a review, or DM me on Instagram at @‌stokedwithmeganmacphail and let me know your thoughts.     You can also connect with me on my website:www.meganmacphail.com     STOKED with Megan MacPhail guides entrepreneurs in scaling their elopement photography business to achieve six-figure income, financial freedom, and adventure-filled travel while growing their photography career.

Are you debating whether you should be using AI for your elopement photography business? Here’s something you may not realize: if you’re using Instagram, Facebook, or Lightroom, you are already using AI. So, this episode isn’t about whether you should be using AI or not, but how you can use it strategically to save you time and energy. 

 

From editing and culling to streamlining your marketing, we walk you through the ways AI can actually support your business while still holding onto your creativity. We share how AI tools like Aftershoot and Imagen AI can save you hours of your time, what tasks we have chosen to use AI for (and which ones we still hand off to humans), and how your use of AI may not be impacting the environment as much as you think.  

 

Tune in now to find out how AI can become a powerful and game-changing part of your elopement photography business. 

 

Get 1500 FREE image edits with Imagen AI

 

Connect with Megan: 🔥 Join Stoked Academy! The only membership community for elopement photographers ready to hit six figures in their business without hustling on social media.   All for less than the cost of a new memory card for your camera.   🔥 Learn more about The Elopement Photographer Mastermind™️.   If this episode made you feel stoked, be sure to share it with a friend, leave a review, or DM me on Instagram at @‌stokedwithmeganmacphail and let me know your thoughts.   You can also connect with me on my website:www.meganmacphail.com   STOKED with Megan MacPhail guides entrepreneurs in scaling their elopement photography business to achieve six-figure income, financial freedom, and adventure-filled travel while growing their photography career.

As elopement photographers, our job is more important than you may think. Yes, we are taking beautiful photos, but it’s so much more than that. It’s about preserving memories, telling stories, and capturing emotions that couples will hold onto for the rest of their lives.

 

In today’s episode, I chat with Gabriela Hotzel, a Las Vegas-based elopement photographer, but shoots all over the western U.S. Gabriela shares her story about how she fell in love with photography as a kid, and how she found her true calling in elopements. 

 

She also opens up about one of her most meaningful elopements she’s ever photographed - a couple planning their wedding after the groom was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. 

 

This episode is a reminder that the work we do as elopement photographers matters. Press play now to hear this powerful story. 

 

Connect with Gabriela:  Instagram: @hotzelphotography Website: www.hotzelphotography.com TikTok: @hotzelphotography Anna’s story on Big Talk

 

Connect with Megan:

🔥 Join Stoked Academy! The only membership community for elopement photographers ready to hit six figures in their business without hustling on social media.

All for less than the cost of a new memory card for your camera.

 

🔥 Learn more about The Elopement Photographer Mastermind™️.

 

If this episode made you feel stoked, be sure to share it with a friend, leave a review, or DM me on Instagram at @‌stokedwithmeganmacphail and let me know your thoughts.

 

You can also connect with me on my website: www.meganmacphail.com

Do you dream of booking beautiful destination elopements, but not quite sure how to make that happen? My guest, Gina Mangiante, a San Francisco-based elopement photographer, opens up about how she first fell in love with photography when she picked up a camera in college, and how that turned into her booking $10K elopements in Italy! In fact, she just got back from shooting not one, not two, but three elopements there.

 

Gina shares how she built a portfolio that actually got her booked in her dream location with her dream clients, all of the avenues her couples found her, and what it’s really like to shoot a 12-hour elopement day in Italy

 

If destination elopements are on your bucket list, then this episode is packed with the inspiration and insight you need. Hit play and hear how Gina made her dream a reality!

 

Connect with Gina:

Instagram: @‌mangiante.photography Website: www.mangiantephotography.com

 

Connect with Megan:

🚨 Applications are officially open for The Elopement Photographer Mastermind! 🚨

This is my high-touch, flagship program for photographers ready to level up their business, book more dream elopements, and build a sustainable, fulfilling life. We’re accepting applications now through June 25, so don’t wait—spots are limited and always fill fast!

Apply now → The Elopement Photographer Mastermind™️

If this episode made you feel stoked, be sure to share it with a friend, leave a review, or DM me on Instagram at @‌stokedwithmeganmacphail and let me know your thoughts.

You can also connect with me on my website: meganmacphail.com

STOKED with Megan MacPhail guides entrepreneurs in scaling their elopement photography business to achieve six-figure income, financial freedom, and adventure-filled travel while growing their photography career.

Does being an elopement photographer sound like a dream, but you’re feeling stuck where you are, and have no idea where to start? Today, I chat with Amanda Kluesner about how she completely changed her life after a tough divorce, moving across the country, and following her heart to go all in on elopements in Lake Tahoe.

 

Amanda talks about rediscovering her love for photography and finding her passion in elopements. She also opens up about experiencing imposter syndrome as an elopement photographer, why you can definitely be an elopement photographer even if it seems like the industry is saturated, and the supportive community she found through the Elopement Photographer Mastermind.

 

Hit play to hear how Amanda followed her intuition and created a life and business that light her up.

 

Connect with Amanda:

Instagram: @‌amanda_Kluesner_Photography Website: amandakluesnerphotography.com

 

Connect with Megan:

🚨 Applications are officially open for The Elopement Photographer Mastermind! 🚨

This is my high-touch, flagship program for photographers ready to level up their business, book more dream elopements, and build a sustainable, fulfilling life. We’re accepting applications now through June 25, so don’t wait—spots are limited and always fill fast!

Apply now → The Elopement Photographer Mastermind™️

If this episode made you feel stoked, be sure to share it with a friend, leave a review, or DM me on Instagram at @‌stokedwithmeganmacphail and let me know your thoughts.

You can also connect with me on my website: meganmacphail.com

STOKED with Megan MacPhail guides entrepreneurs in scaling their elopement photography business to achieve six-figure income, financial freedom, and adventure-filled travel while growing their photography career.

Do you feel like there are way too many elopement photographers out there for you to thrive in your business? We’re calling total BS on that! Todd and I are revisiting one of our favorite episodes, which is all about the myth of market saturation. While the original episode covered a range of online careers, we want you to look at it through the lens of an elopement photographer.

 

We talk about why a saturated market actually means there is demand, how to stand out in a crowded market by leaning into what makes you unique, and why there’s more than enough space for your elopement photography business to succeed.

 

Press play and let’s bust the market saturation myth once and for all!

 

Connect with Megan:

Join us for the Dream Destination Workshop, Moab UT, Nov 3-7, 2025

If this episode made you feel stoked, be sure to share it with a friend, leave a review, or DM me on Instagram at @‌stokedwithmeganmacphail and let me know your thoughts.

You can also connect with me on my website:meganmacphail.com

STOKED with Megan MacPhail guides entrepreneurs in scaling their elopement photography business to achieve six-figure income, financial freedom, and adventure-filled travel while growing their photography career.

What is a wedding content creator? And should you consider adding one to your elopement day team? Content creation for elopements is a growing service that not many couples, or even elopement photographers, know exists. However, my guest, Joy Sheehan, an elopement and wedding content creator based in the Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee, is here to change all of that for you.

 

Joy shares how she went from a wildlife biologist to a full-time creator and what makes elopement content creation so different and powerful. She talks about what wedding content creators actually do and how it’s different from hiring an elopement photographer, why more elopement photographers are partnering with creators to grow their businesses, and what goes into a content creation package.

 

Whether you’re planning your elopement or are a photographer looking to grow your business, this episode will give you new ways to capture an elopement day. Listen now to hear how content creation is shaking up the elopement world.

 

Connect with Joy:

Instagram: @‌createjoymedia 

TikTok: @‌createjoymedia 

YouTube: Create Joy Media

Book a content creation session 

 

Connect with Megan:

Join us for the Dream Destination Workshop, Moab UT, Nov 3-7, 2025

If this episode made you feel stoked, be sure to share it with a friend, leave a review, or DM me on Instagram at @‌stokedwithmeganmacphail and let me know your thoughts.

You can also connect with me on my website: meganmacphail.com

STOKED with Megan MacPhail guides entrepreneurs in scaling their elopement photography business to achieve six-figure income, financial freedom, and adventure-filled travel while growing their photography career.

Going to an elopement photography workshop can be an amazing way to build your portfolio—but not all workshops are created equal. The right one, with multiple styled shoots, solid education, and real access to the host for questions and mentorship, can seriously shift the trajectory of your business in ways you might not expect.

 

Before we even dive into why workshops are worth your time and money, Todd and I talk about some other ways to build your portfolio, like styled shoots and content days. We go over the pros and cons for each, what to look for before investing in any kind of portfolio-building event, and the details about the workshop we’re hosting later this year in Moab and why you should join us!

 

Hit play to avoid the mistakes we made early on and learn how to build a portfolio that not only looks amazing but actually gets you booked.

 

Connect with Megan:

Join us for the Dream Destination Workshop, Moab UT, Nov 3-7, 2025

If this episode made you feel stoked, be sure to share it with a friend, leave a review, or DM me on Instagram at @‌stokedwithmeganmacphail and let me know your thoughts.

You can also connect with me on my website:meganmacphail.com

STOKED with Megan MacPhail guides entrepreneurs in scaling their elopement photography business to achieve six-figure income, financial freedom, and adventure-filled travel while growing their photography career.

Are you tired of relying on referrals and trying to post on social media 24/7 just to stay visible, and you’re still not booking enough elopement couples? If that’s the case, you don’t have a booking problem, you have a marketing problem. But I promise there’s a better way to show up that doesn’t lead to burnout, and that’s omnipresent marketing - a smarter and more sustainable way to show up across multiple platforms, because let’s face it, if people don’t know you’re out there, they can’t book you.

 

In this episode, I break down why every elopement photographer needs omnipresent marketing, the role each platform plays, how to repurpose your content and show up across multiple platforms without going crazy, and the underrated power of YouTube for your business.

 

If you’re ready to be seen, booked, and trusted—without having to post constantly—this one’s for you. Hit play and let’s talk about how to build real momentum without the overwhelm.

 

Connect with Megan:

🔥 Learn more about The Elopement Photographer Mastermind™️.

If this episode made you feel stoked, be sure to share it with a friend, leave a review, or DM me on Instagram at @‌stokedwithmeganmacphail and let me know your thoughts.

You can also connect with me on my website: meganmacphail.com

STOKED with Megan MacPhail guides entrepreneurs in scaling their elopement photography business to achieve six-figure income, financial freedom, and adventure-filled travel while growing their photography career.