Zoe & Eleisha | Lake Como, Italy & St Kilda, Victoria
One love story, two hemispheres, and the best-kept secret in Melbourne.
Fate was kind to these two in the summer of 2014, when they met at work and became best friends long before they became each other’s person. Eight years on, Eleisha made a promise to make Zoe’s dream of an intimate wedding come true, and boy did she deliver.
First came the surprise. Zoe and Eleisha whisked their mums off to Europe, plane tickets and all, to travel with them. Then on the 28th of August 2022, they eloped at Lake Como, swapping vows against that impossibly blue Italian backdrop. “Welcome to your wedding,” indeed. Their words to each other were pure poetry: making houses into homes, laughing until they cried, and a promise to keep writing “every chapter of our love story, day by day, hand in hand, forevermore.”
And back home? Nobody had a clue.
So when they got back, they threw a party on the rooftop of the Prince of Wales in St Kilda. Everyone thought they’d turned up for an engagement. Then the lights went down, the film rolled, and the room clicked: oh my god, they actually got married. We were there to capture every gasp, every tear and every bit of the celebration that followed.
This one’s a series, so stay tuned for more. Zoe and Eleisha, thank you for letting us in on the secret on both sides of the world. Press play and relive it all.
