Identity of mystery couple captured in stunning Yosemite photo revealed

Alex Lasker

It was a picture-perfect evening last Thursday when Mike Karas was hiking with friends towards Taft Point at Yosemite National Park in California's Sierra Nevada mountains.

But when Karas stopped to take a quick Instagram photo of the gorgeous sunset, he snapped something that made the photo even more special: Two newlyweds, perfectly posed on a cliff's edge in the distance, staring into each other's eyes.

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Do I like #Yosemite? 🤔..... I do! 👰🏼💍

A post shared by Mike Karas (@mike.karas) on Sep 2, 2016 at 1:29pm PDT

"It was surreal," he told NBC Bay Area. "We had seen the bride and groom walking down, but all of a sudden we saw them out on the ledge as we were shooting other photos and that 'Eureka!' moment just unfolded."

Having no way to share the incredible image with the mystery newlyweds, Karas took to social media to ask for help finding them.

HIs search for the couple ended quickly - thanks to the help of the internet, the couple in the photo was quickly identified as Catherine Mack and Rick Donald!

With the couple's blessing, Karas shared one more gorgeous photo he snapped of them posing on the far away cliff, crediting the pair's official wedding photographers, Taylor Mccutchan and Derek Copenhaver, and suggesting people check out their accounts as well.

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Hey everyone! By now you've probably heard that the bride and groom was tracked down! With the blessing of @misscatherinemack I wanted to share one more image of her with her husband @rickdonaldd and I also wanted to draw attention to @taylormccutchan and @derekcopenhaver who were the photographer and videographer with the couple that evening out on the trail. If you haven't checked out their accounts please do! I was able to speak with Taylor via phone yesterday afternoon here in Hawaii and confirm he was their photographer as I didn't know who anyone was when this all started and he was extremely nice! Then a couple hours later I was able to speak with Catherine on the phone after she posted on Instagram which was pretty surreal! I'll be sending them a few photos later this week for their own personal use. Congratulations again to Catherine and Rick and I hope you two have an amazing honeymoon!

A post shared by Mike Karas (@mike.karas) on Sep 7, 2016 at 1:43pm PDT

Karas says he is currently in touch with Mack, and will be sending her more photos he took for their own personal use.

"Congratulations again to Catherine and Rick," he said to end his sweet post. "And I hope you two have an amazing honeymoon!"

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