Katherine and Zak are clearly magical creatures.

When these Australians came to us and said “We would like to get married and then shoot portraits in Central Park in February, and the entire time I will be wearing a fabulous mini-dress,” we thought “Ok, we’re up for anything, but you do know February is a bit different than where you're from, right?”

And then the day came … glorious, sunny, 65 degrees. Have faith, and magic may come.

There is something incredibly special about a New York elopement … and Tatiana and I know, because we had one of our own.

We know that a lot of plans look uncertain right now. When our own wedding date kept getting pushed back to find the right date for friends and family, we finally said “You know what? We really want the big party, and we’re going to have it. But we’ve waited long enough. Let’s just get married, and THEN plan our big wedding.”

It was a glorious decision for us, and we want to help others have the same flexibility. We are offering bookings and gift certificates for elopements at a special rate of $200 per half-hour … and if you then book a bigger wedding later, we will offer an extra 10 percent off on top of any other discounts.

We consider our relationship to clients to be “the friends who have literally done this more than a thousand times before,” and in the case of elopements we’ve planned it for ourselves as well. For Katherine and Zak, we had the unique opportunity to plan not only to location of each portrait, but the exact location of the ceremony. Since they are magical creatures, they also had the luck of a deserted Bethesda Terrace, making a fabulous background for beginning their new life.