Out the road in Juneau, where the pavement fades and the world opens wide, two people chose to elope in a blue canoe at Sunshine Cove. The Pacific stretched endlessly around us—quiet, powerful, and impossibly beautiful. Sea lions surfaced nearby, and if luck was on our side, the distant breath of a humpback broke the waterline.

There was no aisle, no crowd—just salt air, steady paddles, and vows spoken where land meets sea. I was lucky enough to stand with them in that moment, officiating their marriage and photographing it as it unfolded naturally, gently, honestly. A reminder that sometimes the most meaningful weddings happen far from everything—right where locals simply call it out the road.

Wild vows, spoken where the road ends and the ocean begins.