Queenstown, New Zealand
Heli-wedding locations
across the South Island.
Sixteen locations across Queenstown, Wānaka, Glenorchy, and Fiordland. Alpine lakes, hanging glaciers, remote ridgelines, and sea-level fiords. All accessible only by helicopter.
Every location,
why it matters.
The South Island has no shortage of dramatic terrain, but most of it is inaccessible on foot. These sixteen locations represent the sites we use regularly: places where the combination of terrain, light, and solitude makes for a ceremony worth travelling halfway around the world to have.
Each location sits within one of four departure regions: Queenstown, Wānaka, Glenorchy, or Fiordland. The region determines your departure airport, flight time, and overall cost. Queenstown and Wānaka departures cover the widest range. Glenorchy and Fiordland take you into increasingly remote and rarely visited terrain.
Some locations have private landing permits that restrict access to a small number of bookings per season. Where a location is permit-restricted, the detail page explains what that means in practice.
The Remarkables
A jagged alpine ridge rising sharply above Queenstown with panoramic Lake Wakatipu views. One of the most recognised skylines in New Zealand.
Cecil Peak
A broad summit above the western shore of Lake Wakatipu with open terrain and 360-degree views. Golden in autumn, snow-dusted in winter.
Bayonet Peak
A narrow exposed ridgeline with a dramatic drop on both sides. One of the most visually intense ceremony settings we offer in the Queenstown region.
Lake Hope
A remote glacial lake in the ranges above Queenstown. Still water, mountain reflections, and the kind of silence that makes a ceremony feel genuinely private.
Coromandel Peak
A private fenced summit above Mt Roy with Lake Wānaka directly below. New Zealand’s most iconic helicopter wedding location. Private landing permit required.
Twin Peaks
Two symmetrical summits above the Wānaka basin with unobstructed views in every direction. Wide, open terrain suited to a ceremony with space to move.
Lake Lochnagar
An alpine lake cradled by near-vertical mountain walls above the Wānaka valley. Dramatic and remote, with the kind of scale that makes a ceremony feel like a discovery.
Tyndall Glacier
A vast permanent snowfield at altitude above the Southern Alps. Ice-blue in summer, white and featureless in winter. Part of the Best of NZ flagship package.
Fog Peak
A quiet summit above the Wānaka ranges with long views south toward Fiordland. Less visited than its neighbours and genuinely off the usual circuit.
Earnslaw Burn
A hanging glacier melting into cascading waterfalls at the head of a remote Glenorchy valley. A Lord of the Rings filming location. Raw, powerful, and genuinely extraordinary.
The Humboldts
A remote mountain range above Glenorchy with sweeping valley views. Rugged and unvisited terrain with a genuinely wild character unlike anywhere closer to town.
Mt Creighton / Big Geordie
A broad mountain plateau above the Dart Valley with reflective tarns and long sight lines. Outstanding in winter when snow covers the plateau from edge to edge.
Lake Isobel
A high-altitude glacial lake above the Rees Valley inside Mt Aspiring National Park. Clear water, total solitude, and dramatic surrounding peaks on every side.
Lake Erskine
A glacial lake in the remote mountains of Northern Fiordland. Frozen solid in winter, shimmering baby blue in summer. One of the most otherworldly locations we access.
Madagascar Beach
A hidden black-sand beach inside Fiordland, accessible only by helicopter. Dark cliffs, dense native forest, and complete seclusion. Unlike anywhere else in the country.
Milford Sound
The most recognised landscape in New Zealand. Towering waterfalls, sheer cliff faces rising from dark water, and a scale that makes most landscapes feel ordinary by comparison.