ELOPEMENT photography

ELOPE AND MAKE ALL YOUr WILDEST WEDDING DREAMS COME TRUE

ELOPE (verb)

e·loped, e·lop·ing.

  1. to run off secretly to be married, usually without the consent or knowledge of one's parents or family.

  2. to get married in a small ceremony with few or no guests.

  3. also referred to as; micro wedding, tiny, small, little, intimate, untraditional.

If the thought of planning a big wedding has filled you with dread and you’re dreaming of something less traditional, you should totally have a wedding that is everything you want and nothing you don’t. Only invite the people you can’t imagine not being there. Get married somewhere that’s perfectly you two; city, country, riverbed, top of a windswept hill, winery, your backyard, the bach.

Please come at me for brainstorms. Coverage can be of your ceremony, family group photos, and a wedding party / couple shoot, and can also include toasts, a cake cutting, your reception and party. I have Elopement packages starting from 1 hour of coverage for registry office style weddings. My most popular Elopement package is 3 hours of coverage.

I’m obsessed with capturing the uninhibited joy & emotion at little weddings

Get married your way

FAQs

  • It's all about you! You want to get married how you want. You want to do away with traditions that don't make sense for you. You don't want to have to please anyone except yourselves. You want only your most important VIP family and friends in attendance. You don't want to blow a house deposit on your wedding. You want a little, fun, relaxed, wedding that doesn't take you months to plan and become a big, overwhelming, decision making, ordeal.

  • I’m based in Lower Hutt, Wellington. Travel fees are included for the Wellington region, Wairarapa, and Kapiti.

    1 Hour wedding coverage is for very little registry office style weddings within 30 minutes drive of Lower Hutt.

    For 3 hour + weddings I mainly shoot in Wellington, Wairarapa, & Kapiti but I'm always down for a mission further afield when the stars align. Travel expenses are added for anywhere north of Masterton or Levin, or the South Island. I will get on a plane for a wedding.

  • 1 hour little registry office style weddings NZ$950

    3 hour little weddings NZ$2250

    Engagement shoots from $850

    Fine Art Albums from $1700

    Please fill in my contact form and I'll send you my full pricing guide. Custom quotes are available as well.

  • 1 Hour little registry office style weddings; under 10 guests.

    3 Hour little weddings; under 25 guests.

    Rules are for breaking, my packages can be customised to suit your day.

  • Since 2020 registry offices are no longer available for Wedding ceremonies in New Zealand. So what I mean by a registry office style wedding is a wedding with under 10 guests, where your celebrant conducts a short legal ceremony, and you sign your marriage certificate.

  • But you want to capture your day, and you think some beautiful photos will calm the masses when they find out you got married without them there. Couple photos are 100% at your discretion, anything from total documentary coverage, to 5 minutes of couple photos, to 1 hour at sunset on top of a mountain.

    And the thing is you don't have to pose for photos, you can just be hanging out with the hottie you just married, and I'll pipe up with some gentle direction if you're looking a little lost.

  • I'll come armed with a literal car boot full of umbrellas so we can brave it. I do recommend coming up with a Plan B if you are having an outdoor ceremony. This is Wellington after all.

  • First, fill in the contact form, I'll get back to you within a day with the pricing and my availability. Then we can meet up for a drink & chats, in person or a zoom. I know you're busy, and maybe not even in NZ, we don't have to chat before you book, we can just email, but I push for it ‘cause it's hard to miss the photographer at a little wedding and I want us all to be a good fit. We'll get to know each other and suss out how long you want coverage for on the day.

    Fill in the booking form with a few more details, a 25% booking fee and signed agreement secures your date. I help you out with planning & the timeline in the lead up to your day.

  • Yes I do! You can add 35mm & 120 medium format film into your package right in the booking form. I'll shoot 'hybrid' a mix of digital and film.

  • Two or three days after your wedding I'll send through some peeks so you'll have some sweet photos to share pretty pronto. Your finished gallery is always chocka full of precious photos, more than what I'll say I’ll give you.

    Full delivery takes up to 8 weeks. Your photos are delivered in an online, password protected gallery, in both big/high resolution and small/web res Jpeg files for sharing online. You can share, download the files, & order archival prints. - This is a pretty sweet feature 'cause you can give Mum the gallery link and she can order prints of your wedding photos ‘til her heart's content.

    Your photos are all edited by me and you'll get a mix of colour & B+W. And just when you're thinking ‘I'm going to log into the gallery and look at the photos again!’ A little gift will show up in the letterbox with some actual legit printed photos you can magnet onto the fridge, and some yummy choccy.

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