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You haven't done family photos in a few years and you're starting to feel it.

You've been waiting until you lose the weight, redo the living room, get the kids in better moods, find the right outfits. (You don't need to wait. None of that is what you'll notice in the photos later. I promise.)

Your husband is "not really a photo person." (Most of mine aren't, going in. They almost always are by the end.)

You have a baby who won't be a baby for much longer.

You have a parent or a grandparent who's getting older, and you've started to quietly notice it.

You moved into the house and you haven't taken photos in it yet.

Something in your life is about to change, and you can feel it, and you want to remember this exact version of your family before it does.

You haven't had real photos taken of just the two of you since the wedding. (And the wedding was a while ago.)

You're approaching an anniversary that feels like it deserves to be marked.

You're about to have a baby, and you want photographs of just the two of you before everything beautifully changes.

Your last kid just left for college and you're looking at each other thinking, okay, it's us again.

You've been long distance and finally aren't, and you want to remember this exact stretch.

You're together again after a hard year and you came out the other side of it stronger.

You don't have a reason. You just want photos of the two of you, because you've never had any that felt like you, and you're tired of not having them.

You're eloping because the big-wedding version of this never felt like you.

You're eloping because someone in your life is sick, or older, or far away, and you want the people who matter most there with you instead of three hundred people you barely see.

You're eloping because the wedding industry got loud and overwhelming and you both quietly looked at each other and said what if we just didn't.

You've been engaged for a long time and you finally just want to be married.

You want to elope somewhere that matters, the trail where he proposed, the city you fell in love in, a place neither of you have ever been but always wanted to go.

You're planning a destination elopement. (Italy, the Dolomites, Iceland, Greece, the Scottish Highlands, the coast of Maine. I travel happily, and I love the couples brave enough to make a day like this happen somewhere far.)

You want photographs of this day that look like you, not like a wedding magazine.