Real weddings
Real Wānaka weddings
Case studies written for planning value: the running order, the weather call, what worked and what the couple traded away.
Beside the lake at Lochnagar. Photograph: Wonder Weddings.
Two of these days used the same alpine landing. For the planning detail behind it, read the Coromandel Peak wedding guide.
Case studies
Weddings we helped run
Tom + Lorena
A private, unhurried day with no guests: vows somewhere remote, time together in the mountains, and no traditional wedding structure to perform.
Joy + Hubert
Spring
Both halves of a destination wedding: a private alpine chapter for the two of them, and a full celebration with the people who had travelled to be there.
Wānaka wedding film
A Wānaka day, on film
The written stories below cover the decisions. This trailer covers the feel of them, filmed around Wānaka by Eureka Films, a brand in the same group as this guide.
Talk to a planner
If one of these is close to what you are picturing, a planner can tell you what it took to run.
Planning by Wonder Weddings, an affiliated brand.
Want a day planned like these?
Wonder Weddings plans and runs weddings in Wānaka and the wider Southern Lakes. If you would rather talk it through than read another guide, start there.
Planning and photography by Wonder Weddings, in the same group as this guide.
This guide is written, maintained and funded by Wedding Machine Group, founded by Cristian Batista. Enquiries sent from this site go to Wonder Weddings, the planning and photography brand in the same group, and some readers become its clients. Heli Elopements and Eureka Films are also brands within Wedding Machine Group, sister companies, not independent recommendations.