A City Hall Elopement

What do you do when you don't want to be a Bridezilla or participate in Bride Wars? Get thee to City Hall! Your wedding day can be as easy as a Disneyland ride (with a waiting queue and a souvenir photo backdrop to boot). If you want to have complete control over your wedding, many people simply choose to elope.

I accompanied Kamilah and Keith to New York's City Hall as their wedding photographer when they decided to elope, and was amazed at just how much fun it was. It was fascinating to see the range of different ages, different ethnicities and religions, and all the various fashions that passed through the Marriage Bureau that day...couples getting married in jeans, to couples in full blown wedding and bridesmaids gowns. One couple had even come all the way from Ireland to say their vows and spend the weekend in NYC (apparently getting married in Ireland is complicated and it's easier in The Big Apple).

Here's a photographic tour...

Step right up...

Forget a boutonniere? Lose your bouquet? City Hall has you covered.

It's like the United Nations.

Kamilah and Keith in front of "City Hall"

The shirt reads "I got married in New York City"