Marry at Kala Patthar on a private helicopter, with a Nepali toran and a photographer. Three 2026 packages from $5,100, one morning, no trek.
Short answer: Everest Destination Wedding Package: Helicopter, Toran and Photographer — from $5,100 per couple, 3 tiers to $9,200. Enquire with your travel dates and we confirm the aircraft, the slot and the price in writing.
An Everest destination wedding is one morning, not a two-week trek. Your own AS350 B3 helicopter lifts off from Kathmandu, lands at Kala Patthar at 5,545 metres, and puts you on the ridge with Everest behind you, a Nepali toran arch waiting at the Everest View Hotel below, and a photographer who already knows the shot list. You are back in Kathmandu the same afternoon.
Most operators sell a destination wedding at Everest as an 11-day trek with a ceremony bolted onto the end. That is a different product at a different price, and it is not what this page is. This is the flight-only version: the ceremony, the photographs and the breakfast, compressed into a single flyable morning. If you want to walk in, our Everest Base Camp helicopter trek covers the trek-up, fly-back version instead.
Every package flies the same route and lands in the same two places. What changes is how much of the wedding is staged, and how much of it arrives by helicopter rather than by trek.
| Package | What is included | 2026 total for two |
|---|---|---|
| The Vow | Private charter, Kala Patthar landing, Everest View Hotel breakfast, permits, a marigold garland swag carried in the cabin, vows and rings on the ridge | About $5,100 - $5,400 |
| The Portrait | Everything in The Vow, plus a professional photographer for the day, a pre-wedding session in the Kathmandu Valley, and a compact toran arch and mandap pre-positioned at the Everest View Hotel | About $5,800 - $6,900 |
| The Full Ceremony | Everything in The Portrait, plus a purohit or Sherpa lama, the full mandap with seating, a sagan henna session the night before, a decorated bridal portrait set, and a drone with its permit handled | About $6,900 - $9,200 |
The step from The Vow to The Portrait is the one that matters most, because it buys the two things a wedding photograph actually needs: a person holding the camera, and a toran that is standing up when you arrive. The Vow carries a marigold garland swag in the cabin, which is light enough to fly with you. A full arch is roughly 80 to 90 kg of freight and has to be pre-positioned and built on site, which is why it appears at The Portrait and above.
The package price is the charter and the staging. Government fees, insurance and the legal registration sit outside it, and they are worth budgeting for before you commit to a tier.
| Line item | 2026 cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Private AS350 B3 charter | $4,500 per aircraft | Up to 5 guests, included inside every package above |
| Professional photographer | $350 - $600 per day | Included from The Portrait up, a separate add-on for The Vow |
| Toran and mandap decor | $400 - $900 | Heavier items fly as separate freight, priced separately |
| Sagarmatha National Park entry | NPR 3,000 per person | NPR 1,500 for SAARC nationals, NPR 100 for Nepali citizens |
| Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality permit | NPR 3,000 per person | Separate from the park entry |
| Helicopter landing and hovering fee | NPR 3,000 per operation | Payable at the park gate, a charter counts as one operation |
| Drone filming permit | US$1,500 + 25% | DNPWC documentary and filming fee, plus the drone surcharge |
| Marriage registration in Kathmandu | Ward office fee | Cannot be completed at Base Camp |
The flight is the fixed point and everything else is built around it. You are picked up from your hotel before dawn, briefed at the helipad, and flown up the Khumbu corridor past Lukla and Namche Bazaar to the ridge above Base Camp. Ground time at Kala Patthar is about 10 to 15 minutes, with the pilot holding the engine at idle, so the vows and the rings happen inside a window that is measured in minutes rather than hours. The helicopter then drops you to the Everest View Hotel at 3,880 metres, where the toran is already standing and the terrace gives you 45 to 60 minutes for the portrait session and breakfast. The step-by-step itinerary below sets out the sequence in full.
Kala Patthar, at 5,545 metres, is the commercially practical landing and it is the better view: it looks straight at Everest rather than up the glacier. The Everest Base Camp sign that appears in most wedding photographs reads 5,364 metres and stands on the moving Khumbu Glacier below the Khumbu Icefall, which is not a place a helicopter sets down with a wedding party. We say this plainly because the distinction matters to a couple planning a once-only day, and because a photograph taken at the 5,364 metre sign and a ceremony held at 5,545 metres are not the same claim.
A traditional Nepali wedding date is set by a priest, and the auspicious window does not line up neatly with the flying season. Chaturmas, roughly July to October, has no auspicious saits and is also the monsoon, which is the worst flying window of the year, so a fully traditional date is not possible in that period. The strongest combination is Mangsir, mid-November to mid-December, when the saits are available and the monsoon has cleared. Magh is workable but colder and the ridge is harder work. Baisakh is good until the haze and forest-fire smoke build in May. If your priest offers a choice, ask for a November date first.
Roughly one morning in four is lost to weather across the year, which is normal in the Khumbu and not a sign that something has gone wrong. Rebooking onto the next flyable morning is free, which is why we build the package to allow a spare morning in Kathmandu rather than treating the flight date as fixed.
The ceremony itself is symbolic and takes place at Kala Patthar, 5,545m, not at the Everest Base Camp sign, which reads 5,364m and sits on the moving Khumbu Glacier below the icefall. Ground time on the ridge is roughly 10 to 15 minutes because the pilot keeps the engine running and the return leg has to fit the afternoon weather window, so the running order is agreed on the ground in Kathmandu rather than improvised at altitude. A full toran arch is around 80 to 90 kg of freight and cannot travel in the passenger cabin, which is why it is pre-positioned at the Everest View Hotel at 3,880m and assembled before you land. Legal registration is a separate Kathmandu process and cannot be completed on the mountain. Roughly one morning in four is lost to weather across the year, and rebooking onto the next flyable morning is free. Dawn air temperature on the ridge is about -15 C, and the wind makes it feel closer to -28 to -30 C, so the dress code has to work at that temperature before it works in a photograph.
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