Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll sail around the world
I will be your Ferdinand and you my wayward girl
How many nights of talking in hotel rooms can you take?
How many nights of limping round on pagan holidays?
Oh elope with me in private and we’ll set something ablaze
A trail for the devil to erase
San Francisco’s calling us, the Giants and Mets will play
Piazza, New York catcher, are you straight or are you gay?
We hung about the stadium, we’ve got no place to stay
We hung about the tenderloin and tenderly you tell
About the saddest book you ever read
It always makes you cry
The statue’s crying too and well he may.
I love you I’ve a drowning grip on your adoring face
I love you my responsibility has found a place
Beside you and strong warnings in the guise of gentle words
Come wave upon me from the family why not that’s absurd
“You’ll take care of her, I know it, you will do a better job”
Maybe, but not what she deserves
Elope with me Miss Private and we’ll drink ourselves awake
We’ll taste the coffee houses and award certificates
A privy seal to keep the feel of 1960′s style
We’ll comment on the decor and we’ll help the passer by
And at dusk when work is over we’ll continue the debate
In a borrowed bedroom virginal and spare
The catcher hits for .318 and catches every day
The pitcher puts religion first and rests on holidays
He goes into cathedrals and lies prostrate on the floor
He knows the drink affects his speed he’s praying for
a doorway
Back into the life he wants and the confession of the bench
Life outside a diamond is a wrench
I wish that you were here with me to pass the dull weekend
I know it wouldn’t come to love, my heroine pretend
A lady stepping from the songs we love until this day
You’d settle for an epitaph like “Walk Away, Renee”
The sun upon the roof in winter will draw you out like
a flower
Meet you at the statue in an hour
Meet you at the statue in an hour
Belle and Sebastian – Piazza, New York Catcher
Rob & Em, there are no words that can describe how wonderfully special it was to capture your AMAZING elopement in my favourite city in the world! Love you guys and thank you for the brilliant, brilliant two days together!
X
PS: And Em, you’re right, NYC is TOTALLY ghostbusters!!!!! you were just too loved up to notice…
Oh my gawd!!!! Look it’s the ghostbusters!!!! Rob and Em were too busy smooching to notice them…
Locations: Top of the Rock, Ludlow Street Lower East Side, Cake shop, Rabbithole Brooklyn, Brooklyn Municiple Building, Marriott Hotel Brooklyn, Brooklyn Bridge












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Katy m - Amazing and beautiful pictures, you captured em and rob perfectly. Brought a tear to my eye! xxxx
Roy and Chris - So thats where you got to when you went missing.
Emily’s mummy and daddyX.
Great images Caroline.
Megan Walker - Rob, so sorry I missed the two of you in Atlanta, would have loved to have had the chance to meet Emily.
Your photos are so lovely and unique. Looks like you had a fab day! Emily, maybe one day we will meet! Congratulations, you have a great husband and have married into a wonderful and loving family. I love the Batchelors!! x
Tin & Martyn Batchelor - Caroline, Thank you so much for these wonderful images of Rob & Em’s adventures in New York. It was never going to be a conventional occasion and we are so pleased that they had your company on their special day and that you have recorded it all so imaginatively and given us a chance to savour the experience.
Thank you again – Rob’s Mumandad
Anna Hardy - Wow wow wow. Caroline these are just amazing. Beautiful pictures and what an incredible experience for you all. You must be so proud of these.
Lisa Devlin - Totally aced it lady, these are gorgeous x
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Lisa - Oh wow!
These are amazing. You tell the story perfectly. So intimate and full of charm…gorgeous!
Louise - Fantastic pictures and the lyrics so perfect! Made me feel that I shared the day, which was just a perfect day! Such lovely, loving photos of the gorgeous newlyweds, as well as NY. Thank you!
Annamarie Stepney - Totally gorgeous – love your story telling lady!
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Claudia Carter - I adore everything about this shoot Caroline – what a gorgeous couple and you’ve told such a romantic story, through all the details of the buildings to them to the experience. Absolutely wonderful. C
joanna brown - this is amazing, such a brilliant day, the photos are so good I really felt that I just lived that right there… genius I love it. x
Caroline - Thank you all! You’re all so sweet! And Anna, yes, the dress is incredible. Em designed it herself! She’s is the most AMAZING textile designer! This is her website http://www.emilypeach.co.uk/
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anna and the ring - Bloody love this.
Her dress is delicious.
What an amazing day.
cara @ lillian and leonard - G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S.
emily - Caroline!! Amazing pictures! We are both speechless… you made us look like normal people. They are truly wonderful and we cant thank you enough! xxxx See you soon my lovely.
Amma // Beyond Beyond - L.O.V.E!!!!!! Of course I love a wedding, but nothing sweeter than an elopement. Gorgeous images!!!