Katarina Auster and Wilson Jaramillo

IT takes a lot to affect New Yorkers. The authentication attention-grabbers that ability about-face active in added places — crazy hair, loud music, anatomy art — are apparent as expected.

But for a few account on the morning of April 24, a beautiful albino bedrock accompanist and an beginning guitarist with a broken adenoids chock-full cartage on Fifth Avenue. Buses slowed and auto drivers rubbernecked as Katarina Auster and Wilson Jaramillo, aloof affiliated by Msgr. William Belford, exited St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Wearing a billowing Reem Acra clothes and a abaft applique blind that had belonged to her mother, Ms. Auster, 32, looked like a angel abrogation her alcazar — one active by abandoned bodies coiled up on pews and tourists wielding camera phones, but still.

The Hungry March Band, a hip-hop, jailbait and Latin afflicted boot bandage from Brooklyn, led the brace bottomward the block to a accession at, fittingly, the Palace Hotel. There, a pianist played “Someday My Prince Will Come” for the Champagne-toting guests.

This Happily Anytime Afterwards began in the bounce of 2005 at the bedrock club Sin-é, a now-shuttered atom on St. Marks Place, area Ms. Auster was disposed bar. She was absorbed back Mr. Jaramillo took the date alongside a custom-built accoutrement created from microphone tripods and assorted rows of guitar pedals. Back admission with a ball amount from Juilliard, she had focused on music but had never apparent such a device.

“Oh my God, he is a genius,” she remembered thinking. She noticed article else, too: “He had abundant guitar biceps.”

At the time, Ms. Auster was spending a lot of time in Manhattan bedrock clubs and Brooklyn recording studios, autograph angst-ridden songs about “hunger for life, appetence and lust,” she said. Her affection for atramentous clothes and her adulation of Mick Jagger’s artful moves led her accompany to alarm her Cat Woman, which led her to change her accustomed name, Elizabeth, to the date name Kat (and again Katarina). Afterwards audition her in her above jailbait bandage Majorette, The Village Voice declared her as the angry accompanying of Gwen Stefani.

But she had addition side. In her closet, aggregate that wasn’t atramentous was some adumbration of pink. Back she wasn’t accedence to the spirit of Jim Morrison, she was watching Elvis movies, allowance her mother tend to a Virgin Mary chantry in her built-in Miami or mentally advertisement the characteristics of her “dream prince.” In college, she and her best acquaintance recited the balustrade arena from “Romeo and Juliet” daily.

“I adulation bogie tales,” said Ms. Auster, herself the artefact of a aerial union: her Bolivian mother begin her father, a Norwegian professor, through a classified ad. They accept been affiliated 36 years. “In a way, I anticipate I was programmed to attending for a prince,” she said.

Mr. Jarmillo, 39, was built-in to Ecuadorean immigrants in Weehawken, N.J. Now a complete artisan for the WNYC radio appearance “The Takeaway,” he spent his adolescence activity to Manhattan to see shows at CBGB and the Limelight.

On date at Sin-é that night, he had a continued mohawk and the atramentous elastic machine-part rings he has exhausted on his close and accoutrements back the aboriginal ’90s. But Ms. Auster anticipation she could see through the air-conditioned facade.

“He aloof seemed absolutely ancient and gentlemanly,” she said. “Like, he ordered a Coke.” And again took her buzz number.

It wasn’t until August 2005 that they had their aboriginal date. Ms. Auster catholic to Asbury Park, N.J., to see him attempt in a bandage contest. She collection bottomward with a acquaintance of Mr. Jaramillo. “I bethink thinking, ‘If she is traveling to New Jersey with a drifter to see me, she charge absolutely like me,’ ” Mr. Jaramillo said.

As they accessible the after-effects of the competition, his arm begin its way about her shoulders. “Would you apperception if I kiss you?” he asked afterwards acquirements that his band, Bon Bomb, had won. “I’d apperception if you didn’t,” she said.

Monica Morales, the bride’s sister and a anchorman and an ballast for WPIX television, remembered affair Mr. Jarmillo at a club in Chelsea, not continued afterwards the couple’s aboriginal date.

“He came over to me and he said, ‘Hi. I am activity to ally your sister,’ ” Ms. Morales said. “I aloof thought, ‘Oh, that’s nice.’ She is a actual adorable babe and has abounding fans, so I didn’t anticipate abundant of it. But again she came up to me and said, ‘There is this guy actuality tonight and I absolutely like him.’ Back she acicular him out, my affection skipped a beat.”

Their aboriginal New Year’s Eve, in 2005, begin them kissing alfresco Sin-é as they leaned adjoin a dump truck. It was such a arresting smooch that a drifter photographed it. “A actual Sid and Nancy moment,” she said.

In the abutting brace of years, they crisscrossed the apple with their corresponding bands. He flew her to England back he was touring with the Fugees, again swooped in and afraid her in Colorado back she was there cutting an adventure of the MTV absoluteness appearance “Made.”

Three years later, on New Year’s Eve, Mr. Jaramillo afraid her with a cruise to Prague. Once there, he told her how alliance is article he takes acutely seriously, because his parents’ alliance failed.

“ ‘I assumption he’s aggravating to acquaint me why we aren’t accepting married,’” she remembered. But as they absolved the Charles Bridge, he fabricated the adventurous arena alike added so by proposing.

As their accord grew, she said she got to redefine what a prince is: “It isn’t all, ‘Baby, I’ll put you up in Monaco and pay for everything.’ It’s added about artlessness and generosity of spirit.”

And to him, his angel is not Elizabeth, Katarina or Kat. “I don’t anticipate I’ve anytime heard him say my name,” the helpmate said. “He alone anytime calls me ‘Beauty.’ ”

Mr. Jaramillo, who plays in a dance-rock bandage with Ms. Auster alleged the Goodnight Darlings, said he has an abstraction for the way their aerial account should continue.

“I adulation watching couples abound old together,” he said. “That is what I demand for us. My dream is for us to assignment together, to allotment an office. That way I never accept to absence her.”