Elopement

Melissa & Rackley | Kapiti Coast backyard Wedding

Mel & Rack. Where do I even start. These two weren’t even going to have a photographer, Mel found me by goggling flower crowns, so I feel pretty fortunate about that one time I photographed a flower crown workshop, and blogged it, and it came up when Mel goggled flower crowns, and then she went into a deep dive of my website and decided they should have a photographer after all.

They had been dealing with some pretty heavy shit that life had blindsided them with when Rackley popped the question. They planned a backyard wedding in under two weeks. A team effort from a truly amazing family to pull this one off. I walked into that family home and could feel all it’s years of history and love, it was like getting hugged by a house, what a perfect place to have a wedding. I’m going on about the house, but of course it’s the people that make it, what a brilliant bunch of folks these two have surrounding & supporting them. so. much. love. So ridiculously happy that they picked me to document their perfect little wedding for them.

Flowers | Flowers Manuela Celebrant | Jamie Nilsson

Roxy & Dion | Havana bar, Wellington City Wedding

Roxy & Dion’s Wedding, wasn’t so much tiny as non traditional. They squished all their besties into Havana bar. A Wellington icon, such a massively cool place to get married and throw a party. They put it more succinctly that this, but it wasn’t a wedding, that totally was actually a wedding. Doing away with wedding traditions, they got ready at home together, arrived together, (I drove them!) had some photos first, greeted all their guests together, didn’t have a sit down dinner, and opened the floor for speeches… a risky game, but they clearly know their friends and family well. Congrats Roxy & Dion on having a fun as all hell not wedding.

Venue | Havana, Flowers | Flowers Manuela, Celebrant | Prue Lamason

Wendy & Matthew | Wellington Elopement

Wendy & Matthew stealthily married in a field of long grass and wild foxgloves, underneath Brooklyn wind turbine. With just two of their best friends, Ros their Celebrant, and me as witness, it was totally perfect, and very personal. I hear their families took the news well.