Lesbian Wedding in Central Park // Tiffany + LaToya

Shanghai travelers elope for cute lesbian wedding in Central Park

Occasionally, I get inquiries for small DYI weddings because I encourage people to get in touch regardless of their budget. I’m only able to take a couple of these weddings each season, but they are often some of the most emotional weddings I shoot. When Tiffany and LaToya contacted me with their story and told me about their small destination wedding in Central Park, I knew I had to make it happen!

As they put it, “we are two weirdos that met by chance in South Korea, not looking for love, but as fate would have it, fell in love.” They moved back to the states together, but soon they realized, “home is wherever we are together,” and they followed their wanderlust to Shanghai, China, where they currently live.

I loved the story of their engagement, and I’ll let Tiffany tell it in her own words.

For months, I planned in secret, buying things here and there to make the day special. Planning a surprise engagement surprise in Shanghai with the woman you live with is no easy task. I decided to send her on a love scavenger hunt that ended with popping the big question.

I pre-loaded a “take a walk with me” playlist of songs , and pre-recorded videos and clues . The clues led her to different locations around Shanghai. Each stop she made, she had to post a picture via Instagram with a special hashtag. Not knowing, all the while, I was home preparing the fairytale and keeping tabs on her via Instagram.

I instructed her to play the last song on her playlist “HOME” by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and the final clue said, ” Home is where the HEART is … I’m waiting.” Along the apartment corridor, I posted a sign that read “your happily ever after awaits.” The hallway was lit with tea lights. I hung hundreds of floating rose petals from our living room ceiling, lit dozens of candles, and posted, ” Will you be my forever?” on our living room wall. As she walked through the door with rose petals everywhere, Alana Sweetwater’s “Love Song” playing in the background there I stood, waiting to ask her to be mine for always.

Once she walked through the door shocked and a bit overwhelmed ,all my planning of romantic prose slipped my mind and I asked her with tears in my eyes if she would do me the honor of being my wife.

It’s a night I will never forget and that I hope she will remember for years to come.
The night we began our road to forever.

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