Years from now you'll still be telling people about this day. Where you'll stand when it happens is almost entirely up to you.

Let me show you the way

AND
However you want this day to go, there's a way there. Finding it with you is my favourite part.

"My work has always been drawn towards the beautiful imperfections. The quiet melancholy. The tenderness. The longing. The shadows and the light that exist together.

I want to create images that feel less like photographs and more like pages torn from an old journal — weathered by time, heavy with memory, and impossible to forget.
 


 
-Carissa

Australia wide and beyond elopements for the wildly inlove

[ let's adventure ]

Most people think an intimate wedding or elopement means hiking for hours up a mountain with a backpack and a tent.

And if that's your thing? Count me in. I'm here for it.

But that's one version of an intentional wedding day. Not the only one.

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bride and groom step of a helicopter for their elopement, sunshine coast

and a day to get lost in?

What if your wedding day felt like the best part of your honeymoon — unrushed, unforgettable,

the kind of love that you can feel over and over again...

Love notes straight out of our journal

'OMG, we have just had a brief look, they are stunnnning!! Thank you so much for taking such care of our photos.I have chills.  We cant wait to see everything else you have created" 
_- Darryin + Mitchell

We wanted a day that belonged only to us. Something wild and intimate … From the beginning, Carissa made us feel as though we were setting off on an adventure with an old friend. There was no pressure to be anything other than ourselves. We laughed, explored, held each other close.

- Charlie & Casey

- Ally & Trent

— Megan & Tom

'Thank you so much for your timeline planning. I seriously had no idea where to even start.'

Elopements with Elk and Fir Photography, groom leading his bride home via torchlight

Carissa became so much more than our photographer. She helped us create an entire two-day experience around us, from location recommendations to all the little details we never would have thought about ourselves … By the time we arrived in Mt Cook, everything felt effortless. We spent two days exploring and simply being together.

'Hello my beautiful, incredible, amazing soul!! I am in so awe of you and everything you have done for Charlie and I! Thank you so so much for everything, you seriously went above and beyond and i truly cannot express how grateful we are.'

'He was blown away at how beautifully natural the photos were. So artistic that we've had to put one up in our ensuite.'  - Emma

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Palm Creek Estate wedding, Sunshine Coast Australia.  Bride and Groom popping champagne at sunset
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Brisbane Registry Elopement with Elk and Fir Photography, bride walking down the isle
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Maybe you're picturing...

Sunrise, nobody else awake

A cottage and a jeweller

Two days, not one

[ Three days, none of them the same ]

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bride and groom making their own wedding rings the morning of the wedding
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LET ME SHOW YOU THE WAY

One for the two of you. One for everyone else. Dinner that runs long because nothing is scheduled after it.

Two days, not one

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A morning making your rings with someone who's been doing it forty years. Vows under the trees by afternoon.

A cottage and a jeweller

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 Mt Ngungun , qld  elopement guide

Vows on a clifftop before the day starts. Back at the Airbnb by nine with coffee and nowhere to be.

Sunrise, nobody else awake

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Made for love that needs room

All genders, all orientations, all the ways people find each other. Everyone is welcome in front of my camera.

 | to breathe


bride and bride walk along the ocean cliffs in Byron Bay. lgbtq+ ally

Found in a drawer years later...

Nobody performing
Tender, and a little undone
The ache of a good day ending
— long after the day itself is gone.

I'm not chasing a look. I'm chasing a feeling —

Bride and bride sharing an intimate moment under a veil

and that is exactly what I want for you, the way it should feel. Just so present and surreal it actually takes your breath away

"I still look back at the photos and wonder how that was actually us."

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