Meet Brian + Hollis. Brian is the interior designer of the HGTV dream home and Hollis is on the costume + wardrobe design team The Walking Dead, Halt & Catch Fire, and more. They lead pretty busy lives full of planning, design, and deadlines, so it?s not too surprising that they wanted to do away with all of that when it came to their wedding. So, when Brian began planning a bucket-list trip to Antarctica (by way of Chilean Patagonia, where they officially got engaged) to celebrate his 40th, it was pretty natural for him to start dreaming up how they could say I Do along the way.
Scroll on through for the scoop on how Brian + his groom pulled off such an adventurous elopement, along with the epic photos Rustic White Photography captured of their day:
Brian says, When I first booked the excursion back in August 2016, my polar specialist told me that absolutely nothing is guaranteed, and some people get all the way down to Chilean and Argentinian Patagonia, and never make it to Antarctica because the weather conditions have to be nearly perfect to ensure safety to fly there; if there is too much wind, you could be stuck in Patagonia for days or weeks. So, I kept the entire plan loose, and to ensure I would make the most of getting there and experiencing the seventh continent, I paid extra fees for kayaking and snowshoeing. That allowed me the assurance of getting into the water if it was calm enough, or just walking on the continent if the seas were too rough. I was ...