Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/honeybeeretreats
Website: https://www.sarahelizabethphotography.us/new-page/
**Note: there are two companies using the name Honeybee Retreats this is referring to the styled shoot/workshop one that doesn’t have much of an online footprint, instead it is hosted on Sarah Elizabeth Photography’s website**
Here we are in with yet another disaster of a workshop/styled session/retreat/whatever-the-fuck-cutesy-name-you-want-to-call-it, this time featuring Honeybee Retreats which is run by Sarah Elizabeth Photography based in NE Georgia.
Much like similar international retreats with Julie Paisley and Sallee Photography, Honeybee’s international retreats have not gone anything like the attendees thought it would and the chatter has been growing and growing.
Originally I was going to cover it on the Substack but, surprise surprise, they used images not from their styled shoots/owners to advertise with, leading to a lot of confusion over a location so we’re on the blog instead.
Update 5/3/2024: Rewrote a bit (Sarah I know you’ve already got your screencaps) as things were cleared up/clarified after talking more with the photographers, listening to their story on Slow Shutter Podcast and researching more, added more receipts (literally and figuratively)…
Update 5/6/2024: It just doesn’t end. Added more information for previous styled shoots this happened with when Sarah ran Stylized Shoots with Sarah Elizabeth Photography (who is based in Georgia).
Update 5/7/2024: The Shoot and Sip podcast talked about their experience in Greece and I updated the information for that section. Added Tulum stolen photos. Slow Shutter Podcast also released a recap episode after their 3 episode interview with some of the attendees.
Update 11/25/2025: It’s been a while but shit has just kept going with Sarah Elizabeth Photography / Sarah Elizabeth Rutherford and her retreats.
Update 11/25/2025: It’s been a few months since I’ve updated about Sarah Elizabeth Photography // Styled Shoots by Sarah // Sarah Elizabeth Rutherford but apparently I need to update this post.
- Moved things around so the timeline is chronological.
- Added a styled session in 2019 she did not show or refund for after she was in jail.
- Added 2020’s brides that allegedly did not receive photos from Sarah Elizabeth Photography.
- In May Sarah commented to The Vendor Table claiming that styled shoots don’t equal wedding experience while at the same time posting images from Scotland to her feed claiming they were elopements.
- Added the mess in May 2025 with Chateau de Michellia.
- 8/2025’s Great Marsh Estate was cancelled and not all clients were refunded.
- Sarah now only will accept payments that can’t be disputed.
- More stolen images are used without permission AND fed into Google’s Gemini AI to create an ad for her Ireland Retreat in 2026.
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