Are you looking for a once-in-a-lifetime experience for your once-in-a-lifetime epic adventure wedding? Are you looking for something unlike you’ve ever seen before? Then, a helicopter elopement may be just what you’re looking for.

Eloping on a helicopter ride is surely an epic way to kick off your marriage. Not to mention, you get to see so much scenery and ground that you normally wouldn’t be able to cover just hiking on your elopement day. You’re able to adventure remote mountain tops that normally aren’t accessible, land on glaciers, and so much more.

What is a Helicopter Elopement?

Whether you just stumbled on the idea by exploring Pinterest or Instagram, or you’ve always dreamed of flying in to a scenic spot where it’s nearly impossible to visit by car or foot, you might not yet be sure exactly how this works.

A helicopter elopement is a one-of-a-kind wedding day excursion where you hire a touring company or helicopter pilot to fly you over some of the world’s most beautiful wild places — and the best ones will even include a few landings for you!

This allows you to see the outdoors from a birds-eye view, and gives you the chance to walk around on foot in a place only few people have ever been.

For the tours that do allow you to get out on foot during a landing, this means that you get to fly in the helicopter in your wedding attire, and then say your vows, do a first dance, or something else entirely when you land — without anyone else around!

The Best Helicopter Elopement Locations

Alaska

Hands-down one of the best locations for heli tours is The Last Frontier: Alaska! Couples who elope to Alaska find that it offers a breathtaking combination of glaciers, waterfalls, snow-capped mountains, wildlife, and a whole lot more. Many of the tour companies in Alaska also allow landings, making for a super unique elopement experience. Some of these packages even have an add on to kayak in a glacier pool—I mean HOW EPIC!

• Alaska Helicopter Tours

• Chugach Adventures

• Alpine Air Alaska

• Outbound Heli Adventures

• Alaska Ultimate Safaris

Hawaii

For couples who dream of being somewhere tropical and warm, Hawaii is one of the best choices in the US. Although each island is unique, one of the best perks about eloping to Hawaii is that you get a beautiful combination of tropical forest, waterfalls, mountains, and some of the best beaches in the world.

• Blue Hawaiian

• Rainbow

• Paradise Helicopters

• Magnum Helicopters

• Air Kauai

• Jack Harter Helicopters

California

California is home to many different landscapes, giving so many different and amazing helicopter experiences across the state. Some of the most popular places for helicopter tours include Catalina Island, the coast around San Francisco (including Big Sur), Lake Tahoe, and Los Angeles.

• Tahoe Helicopters - Lake Tahoe

• Specialized Aviation - Big Sur, San Francisco, and Yosemite

• Helico Sonoma - Redwoods, Napa Valley, and Coastline

• IEX Helicopters - Catalina Island

Iceland

Iceland has one of the most unique and diverse landscapes giving views of glaciers, lava fields, waterfalls, volcanoes, and beaches. The best way to see it all during your time there is from the sky—getting an express ride from landscape to landscape. You can even fly at night during the Northern Lights (I mean come on, WHAT?!).

• Norðurflug Helicopter Tours

• Arctic Adventures

• GlacierHeli.IS

• Reykjavik Helicopters

• Volcano Heli

New Zealand

New Zealand is scattered with incredible mountain landscape, colorful lupin flowers, and breath-taking fjords. The best part? It’s located in the southern hemisphere, giving it opposite seasons as the northern hemisphere. This means escaping the bitter cold in December/January and going to a warm mountain oasis for your elopement.

• Heli Weddings NZ

• Glacier Southern Lakes

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