NBC News’ Katy Tur is eloping with CBS News correspondent Tony Dokoupil this weekend.
We hear the couple — who met in the makeup room at MSNBC when Dokoupil worked at the network — planned to wed on Friday at dusk in a “nondenominational ceremony in the middle of the desert in Utah,” a source said.
“They deliberately picked a place where there will be no cell service and no one around them talking about politics,” says the friend of the couple. “No setup, no altar, just in front of rocks.
“Katy said it would be ‘just us and the earth.’ ”
The couple even wrote their own vows, and both parents have given their blessing.
As revealed in her book, “Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History,” Tur’s parents and both sets of her grandparents also eloped. The newlyweds will take a few extra days off in Utah to visit Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon.
There will be a party later for friends and family to celebrate.