elopement
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The Janet Jackson that “Control” unleashed on the world was a teenager shaking off the dust of two forgettable pop albums and a misguided elopement with another pop star, James DeBarge, when she was 18.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2026
When she shot her first elopement in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park, she was transformed.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
The two heard no warnings, so they pressed forward with their elopement plans, driving south to a beach just past Wailea, where they exchanged vows under perfect blue skies.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 11, 2023
Dear Miss Manners: My daughter and her fiance are having a planned elopement.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 9, 2023
Not a syllable had ever reached her of Miss Darcy’s meditated elopement.
From "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen
During the elopements, her husband Bill takes photos via drone and shoots video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2025
She switched to shooting only elopements and micro-weddings and decided to do that permanently.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 23, 2023
Some look like elopements or first-time trips for nervous couples; others look like tearful reunions or contemplative solo journeys.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2021
Mary Ellen’s father, Thomas Love Peacock, had been close to the poet Shelley, whose life, writes Johnson, “was a harried one of bailiffs, angry parents, elopements, death, delusion, passion, semi-madness, wife-sharing, and suicides.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2020
It put me in mind of ladies’ bowers, and knights, and cavaliers, and elopements; and dreaming, as I did, I almost began to fancy myself a damsel in distress about to be rescued.
From A Fluttered Dovecote by George Manville Fenn
