Yips of eager sled dogs + the stillness of an iceberg lagoon shape this Bear Lake Glamping + Glacier Dog Sledding Elopement. This two-day luxury Alaska experience is designed so you can slow down and truly celebrate. It’s immersive, romantic, and filled with thoughtful details — a wedding experience, built differently, on purpose.
Your story begins in Seward, where you’ll board a private helicopter bound for a snowfield glacier. The dogs are waiting — barking, yipping, and eager to run. Unlike most visitors who share their ride, your musher guides only you. Up to two hours of private time on the glacier: sled gliding across open white expanse, with the freedom to pause mid-journey and exchange vows with the dogs as your witnesses.
From there, your helicopter carries you deeper into the wild, where a hidden glamping camp rests on the edge of an iceberg-studded lagoon. For the next 24 hours, this is your home.
As you wave goodbye to your heli, your expert backcountry guide (aka “mountain butler”) welcomes you and helps you settle into your private yurt with real bedding, luxe linens, twinkly lights, and cozy blankets. Dinner awaits at your sweetheart table, set with china, silverware, and candles. Seasonal Alaskan delicacies (think slow-smoked ribs, or fresh-caught crab legs) are plated with care, paired with bubbly, and topped with a petite wedding cake carried in by heli.
As the midnight sun hovers on the horizon, walk the shoreline, cuddle under a Pendleton blanket by the campfire, and fall asleep to the sound of icebergs creaking in the lagoon.
Day Two begins slowly with breakfast delivered to your yurt by your mountain butler. The day stretches unhurried: a guided kayak excursion among icebergs, pausing for a shoreline picnic, or, if you’re feeling daring, a cold plunge in glacier-fed waters. As the afternoon unfolds, your helicopter returns — not to end the story, but to lift you high into the alpine above Resurrection Bay. Here, a premium charcuterie picnic awaits at a private overlook, the grand crescendo to your journey before descending back into Seward.
Across these two amazing days, your story — every big and beautifully small moment — is cared for and documented by an award-winning luxury elopement photographer who is also your coordinator, concierge, and partner in adventure. You stay immersed in the romance while your elopement is seamlessly designed, supported, and captured in gorgeous storytelling images you’ll carry forever.
