Your wedding day is a celebration of your unique love story, whatever that looks like to you. We offer wedding photography + videography for weddings of all shapes and sizes throughout NorCal. But, if you want to take a walk on the wild side and get away from it all with an adventure elopement, we’ll even help you plan it. As a California elopement photographer, we offer all-inclusive elopement packages for extraordinary couples in Lake Tahoe, Yosemite, Big Sur, the Redwoods and throughout Northern California.
Let’s Adventure Together
We're happy you're here! Angie is the planner and the photographer. Lee is the videographer, officiant and live musician. Together, we make one incredible elopement day team.
We specialize in elopements throughout breathtaking Northern California.
California elopement Photographer + Videographer
In truth, we are adventurers to our core and wanderlust runs through our veins. Our journey began when we sold our house, bought an RV and hit the road for a music tour! We played live music in countless venues for ten years while exploring every inch of the US and National Parks along the way. We fell in love with the great outdoors, so much so that we began documenting our adventures through photography.
Over time we started capturing other couples' journeys, leading us to our passion for adventure elopements, wedding photography and videography. Creating an unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime wedding experience for couples just like us is a dream come true!
We're thrilled to call NorCal our forever home as husband and wife, but it wasn't always that way.
Are you ready to get back to what matters most on your wedding day? Celebrate your union with just the two of you, and send everyone the photo + video later! (You are also more than welcome to bring along friends and family if you wish!) Our customizable California elopement packages can include elopement wedding photography and videography, an elopement location guide, live music, an officiant, picnic lunches, a champagne toast and more! As your elopement planner in Lake Tahoe and NorCal, we'll help create your dream elopement day experience.
Begin the rest of your lives together surrounded by your friends and family in beautiful Northern California. Our documentary lifestyle wedding photography and videography capture each heartfelt detail of your wedding day for you to relive again and again for years to come. Whether you're getting married at a fun local venue or opt for a picturesque background with an adventure wedding, we'll document all of the genuine emotions of the first day of your forever.
Wedding photography isn't just about capturing the details of your wedding day, although that is part of it. For us, wedding photography is about celebrating and commemorating the beginning of the next phase of your adventure together. So, along with the dress and the cake, we'll also document the genuine, raw emotion of your elopement or wedding day. Your photos will bring you back to your special day, allowing you to relive the moment again.
If photos are worth a thousand words, what is a video worth? To us, wedding cinematography is priceless. Wedding photography freezes a snapshot in time, allowing you to display it on walls and in albums. Meanwhile, wedding videography transports you to the moment where it all began. Hear the pride in your parents' voices, relive the tears of joy, and commemorate your first kiss as a married couple.
For us, happy couples, adventures and beautiful scenery are what life is all about.
We'd love to join you and help you remember every detail of your wedding or elopement day.
For us, happy couples, adventures and beautiful scenery are what life is all about.
We'd love to join you and help you remember every detail of your wedding or elopement day.
So far, we've had the pleasure of documenting over 300 weddings and elopements— here’s what a few of them had to say!
Angie takes breathtakingly, beautiful photos. She's so creative and has an eye for beauty. She took us on an adventure around lake tahoe to various beautiful destinations. It rained, snowed and shined. She captured the happiest day of our lives and she was so FUN to work with. I thought i was going to be nervous in front of the camera but her easygoing personality and creative poses put me right at ease. Her husband, Lee, our officiant, spoke words that resonated so much with our love. What an amazing husband and wife team! Angie even made us a custom charcuterie board. I can't find enough words to thank them for such a perfect day and perfect photos. I've only received my sneak peak and they are AMAZING so I can only imagine what the remaining will look like. I recommend that everyone do an adventure elopement/ceremony with Mindful Media Photography 📸
Amanda & Jeremy
Angie and Lee were amazing to work with for our wedding. They made the entire wedding day process so pleasant. If you’ve ever been in a wedding party, you know that photographer & videographer are the two vendors you will be around most as the bride and groom, and they were an absolute pleasure to work with all day. My husband and I both agree they were our favorite vendors we hired and couldn't stop saying it to each other after the wedding. They remained professional but also fun and light at the same time. We got our sneak peaks back, and we are obsessed with the photo quality and all the moments they were able to capture. I love how Angie does not over edit the pictures. The pictures perfectly capture the moment, and I would not have wanted it any other way. Also I did a lot of research on photographer and videographer services in the Tahoe/Reno area, and I feel their prices are unbeatable but the quality of services are not lost in the slightest. I would recommend them 10 times over to anyone hosting a traditional wedding or eloping anywhere in Northern California.
Kayla & Jacob
"Angie and her husband went above and beyond to make our elopement a stress free dream come true! From helping me plan out the day and suggesting an itinerary to scoping out locations and hikes the day before, Angie made the day seamless. This dynamic duo can do it all- photography, videography, officiating and first dance music. Hiking with Angie and her husband just felt like we were hanging out with two friends and taking some photos along the way. She definitely knows her stuff around Yosemite and I am so pleased with the stunning and EPIC photos we were able to capture. Thank you Angie for making our wedding so special!"
Ami & Ajay
"When we decided to elope we knew we wanted to hike to a gorgeous spot to do it, but was concerned about finding a photographer willing/able to hike and document it. I did some internet searching and found Mindful Media Photography/Angie. She was more than willing to join us for our adventure elopement. Then the Dixie fire changed all our plans, the location of our wedding burned and the state closed all of the forests for our scheduled date. Angie worked with us to find a date that she was available before the likelihood of snow in the high country. When she showed up she felt like an old friend. She welcomed my six year old daughter to be right next to her taking photos with her kid camera like Angie while she photographed flowers/jewelry/etc. We are not really people who love to be in front of the camera, but she made us feel comfortable and the photos show it in the relaxed look. The photos and the are stunning and the experience was wonderful! I can't speak highly enough of Angie."
Jon & Audrey
"My husband and I couldn't have asked for a better photographer to capture our wedding! Angie is a truly gifted artist! We had multiple people come to us after the wedding with nothing but praise about her and her amazing ability to somehow be everywhere at once. I don't think a single moment wasn't captured. She kept in constant communication with us leading up to the event, so we never felt stressed or worried in that department of planning; she had us covered. On the day of the wedding, when I finally got to meet her in person, it felt like greeting an old friend! She has such a beautiful personality! Even after the wedding, she stayed in contact with updates and sneak peaks of photos. The final results were breathtaking! My favorite thing about her photography style is how natural and candid everything feels while still being edited to have fantastic lighting and colors. 10/10 would highly recommend her to capture your special day, she's incredible!"
Lindsey & Kevin
"I have so many good things to say I don’t know where to start, we used Mindful media and photography for our family photo shoot back in April and the pictures were literally breathtaking. Angela It’s such a wonderful person to be around it just makes for such an easy and natural photo shoot! Her pictures are so wonderful, even after edits there’s still so much energy and depth to them... she captures more than the moment but the emotion in the moment. I’ve used other photographers and Angela is definitely my favorite."
Barbie & Justin
"If you are looking for a wedding photographer and you have come across Mindful Media and Photography stop looking! Angie is absolutely wonderful. She is so sweet and very professional. She was very timely and captured everything I ever wanted and more from the important moments such as our first kiss as husband and wife down to the little details such as our dessert table, centerpieces, seating chart, flowers, our rings, ect. Every time my husband and I look at our wedding gallery we get to relive the best day of our lives. Her style is so authentic, she captured so many precious moments from beginning to end. Book your special day with Angie and you will not be disappointed!"
Amy & Stephen
"Angie and her husband are so talented and made us feel so special on our day! They continued to ask us how we wanted the day to go/what specific photos we wanted and were very good with helping us pose in the photos! My husband and I are very awkward but all of the photos and our video flowed so well and looked amazing! They even got drone footage for us that looked UNBELIEVABLE. We are seriously going to look back on these images years from now and are going to be able to reminisce every magical moment of our day! Which is great because it went by sooo fast. Thanks to the both of you for capturing it so wonderfully!!"
Ashley & Alex
Get excited for your upcoming elopement day with sneak peeks from recent sessions, Lake Tahoe and NorCal elopement tips and more with our adventure elopement blog, Let The Adventure Begin.