Elopement Options

Get ready to run away together

If you want to leave the wedding planning behind, you’ll find the elopement of your dreams at Lakestone Lodge.

Over two or three nights in the best available room, you’ll enjoy delicious three-course dinners, then awake to cooked and continental breakfasts. Against your choice of a mountain, lake or open landscape backdrop, our celebrant and two witnesses will formalise your love for one another.

Below are three different package options:

Mackenzie Elopement Package - Two nights for two guests NZ$4990 (valid until 30 September 2025)

Package for two guests includes:

Two nights’ accommodation in a Lake View Super King Room
Selection of outdoor locations for your ceremony (with an indoor backup if required)
Wedding celebrant
Two witnesses
Three-course dinner both nights for the wedding couple.
Daily cooked and continental breakfast
Bottle of Central Otago bubbly to celebrate
Picnic
Lakestone Lodge signature cocktails on arrival
Home made chocolates on arrival
Flowers in your room on arrival

Pukaki Elopement Package - Two nights for two guests NZ$6990 (valid until 30 September 2025)

This has all the items listed in the Mackenzie Elopement Package above, as well as:

Complimentary upgrade to the Lake View Suite with a private hot tub if available.
Bridal bouquet and button hole flowers
Wedding cake for two
Hair and makeup for the bride
Private dining on your wedding night
Lakestone Lodge staff photography to capture the special day (using top spec mobile phone cameras and you will receive photos on the day of the ceremony)
Late checkout 12pm

Aoraki Elopement Package - Three nights for two guests NZ$14,900 (valid until 30 September 2025)

This premium package has all the items listed in the Mackenzie and Pukaki Elopement Packages above, as well as:

An extra night (3 nights total), dinner, bed and breakfast
NZIPP Wedding Photographer of the Year 2022 award winner Chris Stanley/Focus Photography (depending on availability)
Private 1 hour helicopter flight with a snow landing from Lakestone Lodge
2 x 1 hour relaxation massages

Additional

Legal paperwork not included – please ensure this is ready before your ceremony (our celebrant will assist you with this)
We will allow for you to bring 2 extra guests as witnesses and to dine with you. Additional standard room and dinner costs apply.
For weddings over four people, please refer to our Weddings page.
$250 to set up a live stream of the ceremony

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What our other guests had to say

As soon as you walk through the doors of Lakestone lodge it becomes a haven of relaxation. Mike and Anna and their team are so welcoming and friendly ensuring they care for your every need. The lodge and rooms are stunning and oh so comfortable, the food is divine and our massages were the best...

gardinersnz

We throughly enjoyed our stay. What amazing views, waking up to see Mt Cook painted in soft pinks at dawn was truly special. We had a delicious meal, equivalent to any in an upmarket restaurant. Staff were attentive, but unobtrusive. Furniture and layout high quality. I’d love to...

Fiona T, Auckland

A stay at Lakestone Lodge was our reward for the grind of 2020. The accommodation and food were superb, and the hosts were friendly, attentive and well informed. The star of the show is the location – the lodge discreetly tucked away on a ridge above the road, away from other travellers...

David G

From the moment we arrived till the follow up visit to pick up our bikes that had graciously been looked after while we shot up to Christchurch, the service and hospitality was amazing. Mike met us and with his staff quietly looked after our every need. Food was delicious and very well...

Craig L

This small lodge has excellent and very helpful staff. the rooms are good and the food is excellent. However the crowning glory for my wife and I was the magnificent view along the lake with Aoraki Mount Cook central to the view surrounded by other snow covered mountains in the Southern Alps.

Peterm2014123, Auckland Central, New Zealand

A few days ago we treated ourselves to 2 nights at this luxurious little lodge (it only has 6 guest rooms) We chose it as a relaxing base from which we could access sections of the Alps 2 Ocean Cycle Trail & various walks. The location is stunning and the food, thoughtfully prepared by Chef,...

Sally A, Wanaka, New Zealand

The minute the gate opened and we drove up the Lakestone driveway, we instantly felt the stresses of work disappear. We couldn’t have chosen a better place to start our holiday. Our room was breathtaking. The Lodge itself ticks all the boxes. But the thing that stands out here is the...

WelshRhiWanaka

A group of tired cyclists arrive wet and cold. We are met by a very charming host, Mike, and shown to our lovely rooms, with beautiful views over turquoise Lake Pukaki. A rabbit runs by, pursued by a cat. There is tea and coffee, cupcakes, biscotti and fruit. Cocktails in the lounge are followed...

AucklandTraveller, Christchurch, New Zealand