Getting married on safari is unlike anything else. It’s the kind of destination wedding experience that invites you to slow down and take it all in—big skies, close wildlife encounters, meaningful time together, and a pace that feels just right.
This 5+ day custom, inclusive safari wedding package in Kenya's famous Maasai Mara safari park blends luxury, connection, and celebrates how you love to travel in a way that’s thoughtful and personal.
This safari wedding is a unique romantic, adventurously luxe travel idea, perfect whether you’re thinking of eloping as a couple or celebrating with your treasured few.
Getting Married on Safari: A Journey, Not Just a Day
What Makes this Adventure special?
With Peaks & Safaris managing safari & lodging planning, and, local logistics...
...and Kate of Soul & Sky as your lead concierge contact, as well as leading the full wedding experience planning & photography...
...We're your team, united to ensure your safari wedding becomes a story lived fully and remembered beautifully.
5-Day Luxury Safari Wedding Adventure
At a glance, here's what you can expect to experience in your inclusive Kenya Safari Elopement Wedding package:
- Travel with ease: Private bush flights to and from Kenya’s luxury safari camps.
- Unforgettable ceremony: Exchange vows in a remote, wide-open skies safari park setting.
- Curated stays: Handpicked lodges with exceptional amenities and hospitality, perfect for you two and/or your treasured few.
- Signature moments: Say "I do" on the savannah, experience gorgeous sundowner celebrations and then float at sunrise in a hot air balloon, dressed in your wedding best.
- Cultural depth: Experience Maasai traditions and connect through guided wildlife safaris.
- Storytelling photography: I’m there for it all—not just the big, obvious moments, but the quiet ones that happen in between. The small, unspoken parts of travel that shape how it all felt (and, that often end up to be favorite memories). While you stay present, I’ll be quietly documenting, so your images, album and prints reflect your full story—not just the highlights.
- Extend the journey: Add on more exploration of all Kenya has to offer with help from Peaks & Safaris. Whether that’s time on the sparkling white sandy coast, mountain treks, or exploring hidden gems most travelers never reach.
- How it feels: Getting married on safari is an experience of a lifetime, wrapped lovingly in other experiences of a lifetime! It is personal. It is adventurously luxurious in the richness of the experiences every day. It reflects the way you love to travel—authentically, with time to experience what makes a place unique. And, with end-to-end support you get not just beautiful wedding images--you get to fully enjoy every moment of your trip, without stress.
...Morning coffee by the fire.
...Spotting an elephant just as the sun hits the horizon.
...Sharing a meal outside while the sky turns pink.
What It Could Feel Like to Get Married on a Safari Wedding
Day 1:
Arrival and Bush Flight to the Savannah
Evening:
- Join your first dinner under the stars, with the sounds of the bush all around. Retire to the campfire for relaxation, then off to your well appointed safari tent for nature-wrapped sleep.
Throughout your wedding travel, I’ll be there quietly capturing the feel of the moments throughout each of the days—for example, your arrival, your connection, and your first evening in this wild and beautiful place.
- Journey the remaining distance by safari truck – Arrive at camp and take it all in: a warm welcome from the staff & community, the landscape, the calm beauty of your adventure luxe lodging, a homebase that is an oasis in the sweeping plains.
Afternoon:
Morning:
- Begin in Nairobi, where I (Kate) will meet you to begin the journey! I will be your photographer AND on-the-ground wedding coordinator & travel concierge, all in one, for a seamless end-to-end-experience. (Fun fact - that's me in the images below!)
- Load into a private bush flight, which takes you into the heart of nature for your safari park wedding.
Day 2:
Safari & Down Time
Evening:
- Candlelit dinner and firelight stories to close the day. These small, simple moments across the day are part of the full story we’ll tell together through the images you’ll keep forever.
- A slow lunch and free time back at your lodge. Whether you're enjoying special amenities at your luxury bush camp, resting, or simply enjoying the view, the day is yours.
Afternoon:
Morning:
- Head out on an unforgettable private game drive at sunrise with your guide. The excitement of looking for - and then seeing - elephants, lions, giraffes, cheetahs, and more is truly amazing.
- Enjoy a private breakfast in the bush on your tour. I’ll be right there, documenting the whole experience quietly. Capturing the way you take it in together, and, creating gorgeous wildlife images you’ll be proud to show when you return home.
Day 3:
Your Safari Wedding Day
Evening:
- Toast your day with a sweetheart-style dinner under the stars and time by the fire back at your luxury safari camp. Relaxed and happy, your amazing elopement day has come to a close--and YES--you just were married on a safari! This is the kind of day of beauty, awe, and joy that you’ll return to again and again through the storytelling images in your heirloom album.
PRO TIP: We can also plan for your day opposite the above, giving you a gorgeous sunrise ceremony instead!
- Perhaps participate in some traditional Maasai wedding customs & afternoon meal as celebration leading into your vows experience
- Your safari wedding ceremony unfolds in an unforgettable spot on the savannah. I’ll be there documenting it all naturally—the emotion, the joy, the beauty, and the feeling of you two in this wide-open sky and space you’ve chosen.
- Celebrate with a bush reception (aka sundowner) and easygoing portraits. Whether it’s just the two of you or celebrating with your most treasured few, this unhurried time to let it all soak in will feel personal and grounded in the place around you as the sun becomes low in the sky.
Afternoon:
Morning:
- A relaxed morning at camp with time to sleep in and have a beautiful, relaxed breakfast.
- Then, you'll have time to get ready—finishing writing out your private vows to each other, and getting into your wedding attire together or separately, depending on what feels right.
Day 4:
A Hot Air Balloon Ride to Remember
Evening:
- A final celebratory dinner eases into the close of your safari wedding experience at the camp. I’ll be there, as always, quietly capturing the feeling and moments of the day from start to finish.
- Choose how to spend your day—game drives, wildlife experience, a visit to a local village, another unique experience provided by your selected lodge or local adventure partners, or, simply time to relax.
Afternoon:
Morning:
- Drift above the Maasai Mara at sunrise in a hot air balloon, dressed in your wedding attire. Marvel at the epic views and incredible animal sightings spotted from above
- A champagne breakfast waits for you after landing.
Day 5:
Farewell Safari & Bush Flight to Nairobi
PRO TIP: ExtenD Your Stay
I am available to travel with you to photograph any/all of these next chapters too—so your full story is captured, start to finish, in one seamless, beautiful arc, while you get to stay present in each beautiful moment.
- Climb aboard your bush plane, and return to Nairobi with full hearts and stories of a lifetime to carry forward.
Afternoon:
Morning:
- One last game drive and private breakfast in the bush offers a final connection to this incredible place and its wildlife.
More Amazing Than You Imagined. Captured Just as It Felt
This isn’t just a wedding day—it’s a wedding experience. It’s the kind of wedding you dream about—but rarely see done this way.
A luxury experience that invites you to slow down and take it all in:
**wide-open skies
**wildlife just beyond your tent
**meaningful time together, and...
**unhurried 5+ day travel that actually lets you feel present.
Whether you’re planning an elopement for two or a celebration with your treasured few, this 5+ day safari wedding journey is built with your *total experience* as our True North. It’s not just about the ceremony—it’s about the moments and memories that wrap around it, from start to finish.
With Soul & Sky and Peaks & Safaris working together in our unique partnership, you get more than a ceremony add-on—you get a fully immersive, deeply supported, and beautifully documented journey. It becomes a chapter in your story that’s even more amazing than you imagined… and captured exactly as it felt.
WHY PARTNER WITH US?
- I am your primary contact through out the adventure build and experience, plus, I guide your wedding planning and photography with care and intention.
- The amazing Peaks & Safaris team brings decades of in-country expertise, passion, and trusted relationships with lodges, guides, and conservation-focused partners.
Together, we shape your wedding trip around what matters to you most.
Thoughtful Collaboration, End to End:
- From the quiet mornings with sweeping sunrise views…. To the moments of awe when you experience all the magic that a safari in Kenya’s beauty provides, everything is part of your story.
- That’s why this luxury safari elopement wedding includes a minimum of five days—so you have the time and space to fully immerse, relax, and let the full story unfold naturally.
Five+ Days of Meaningful Moments:
- From first light to firelight… To elephants in the distance or lions hiding in tall grasses… To quiet glances at dinner… I’m with you, quietly capturing the full story of your experience.
- As an award-winning wedding and travel lifestyle photographer, I create timeless, honest images as we explore – memories that are meant to live in heirloom albums and on your walls—not just your camera roll.
Photography That Tells the WHOLE Story:
- Whether it’s just the two of you or a small gathering, I help design & coordinate a celebration that feels deeply personal——so you get to dream, enjoy, and be present, without having to manage all the moving parts.
- Peaks & Safaris brings a wealth of knowledge, including on lodging and locations that will work best for you, and/or your traveling crew.
Inclusive for Just You or Your Treasured Few:
- Peaks & Safaris taps into their deep eco-tourism background & partners, and, champions sustainable community-based tourism.
- Soul & Sky offsets flight carbon emissions for both my travel and yours as a couple through the Gold Standard, an industry-leading global carbon credit program.
- In addition, for each safari elopement booked, Soul & Sky donates to the International Network of Civil Liberties Organizations (INCLO), which works tirelessly to advance human rights and civil liberties across the world.
Together, we create something that gives back as much as it gives you.
Sustainable, Soulful Travel:
MEET KATE
Principal Photographer & Planner
I plan -then photograph- luxury destination elopements that are neither preceded nor replicated.
Search these remarkable landscapes, and you won’t see a parade of identical wedding photos.
I believe the world is too extraordinary for a borrowed plan.
My passion for unique global travel, belief that anything is possible, and mantra that meaningful experiences can’t be rushed are the foundation of how I support you.
Share how you want your wedding to feel, and I’ll create options as original as your love story—capturing images of every unforgettable moment.
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Kate's not just a photographer... She seamlessly shifts between being a creative director, a local concierge, and your biggest cheerleader...
-Ryan Monahan
Us Two International Lifestyle Adventure
