Melissa & Rackley | Kapiti Coast backyard

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.

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