Lake Crescent Engagement Photography | Christy & Micheal | Washington Engagement Photographer

Christy & Micheal’s Adventure Engagement Session at Lake Crescent

The Engagement Session

Christy & Micheal’s Engagement session started at the beautiful Purple Haze Lavender Farm. The staff was kind and the flowers are just starting to bloom. We added this stop last minute and had no regrets; this was my first time seeing lavender farm in person and they blossom from June through August so we were there just in time. After we were done enjoying the amazing smells and purple flowers we continued on our adventure to Lake Crescent, where we spent the majority of our time.

Lake Crescent is a stunning lake with mountain views and crystal clear water. Christy and Micheal were laughing and enjoying their time together as we explored both the water as well as a near by trail that took us to Marymere Falls! How cool is it that we were able to get some wildlife shots of deer from the area too?! Washington gave us lake views, waterfalls, and ocean smells. We ended our good day on a Port Angeles beach. It was more like a very slipper rock figure but that didn’t stop these two! Lots of laughs all day and I know it shows in their photos.

How They Meet

Christy and Micheal were a casual set up from Christy's brother-in-law who was pushing her to meet him when she was out in Washington. That Sunday they went to church and sat next to each other. All Michael said was Hi and they didn't talk again. Later that night they went out to eat with friends as a group and Christy felt it was so awkward because he wasn't close enough to talk to so they hardly talked at all. Christy was visiting her sister to celebrate her nieces 1st birthday and she felt bad like she hadn't given Michael real chance the first time they met. So Christy gave it another try and started talking to Michael and hasn't stopped. That night Michael got the courage to ask for Christy's number and they've been talking ever since.

How He Proposed

Christy and Micheal had talked about getting engaged and Christy thought it would be July 4th when Michael was supposed to fly over for the weekend. But God and the covid-19 had other plans. Christy was studying for school when her mom started pestering of her to do her nails to help her to relax. Christy was concentrating hard on her school work; she just could not understand why her mom wanted her to get her nails done so much and she ignored the advice. That same afternoon Christy's mom told her that she needs to come on a walk with her just to relax and get some fresh air to take a break from studying and as anybody knows moms walks are about an hour. So Christy kept declining but Mom was persistent enough that she finally gave in.

On the walk Chris's mom casually brought up the engagement, asking her when she thought they were going to get engaged. Christy was kind of explaining their plans when up by the head on the trail was a guy walking his dog came into view. As Christy explained this all to her mom, she made a passing comment that the dog up there looked exactly like Micheal's dog, Abe. But it was a little bit bigger than the dog in question and that's when Christy's mom got pretty quiet, gave her a smile and Christy finally connected the dots that it actually was Abe and Michael waiting for her at the end of the trail. Mom walked away to give them a little bit of privacy as Christy excitingly went over to see Micheal. They sat on a nearby bench and talked all about him being there and surprising them. Even though she didn’t want to get her hopes up that he would propose just then, she still had a slight desire that it would happen. As they were cuddling on the bench, Micheal nudged Christy off his shoulder, made her stand, got down on one knee, and proposed. She could not be more happy to say YES!

HUGE Thank you to the Purple Haze Lavender Farm for letting us enjoy your beautiful farm!

Are you planning your state park engagement session too?? I wrote a whole blog post about it to help get you started! You can check it out HERE!

Minnehaha Falls Park Engagement Photography | Nikki & Devon | Minneapolis Engagement Photographer

Nikki & Devon met through a set up through Nicole’s sister and her husband. Devon is friends from church and they all thought they might hit it off, so they invited both if them over for a game night at their house.

Both introverts, they let her sister and brother do most of the talking that night. It took about a month after that awkward game night until Devon got Nikki’s number. He said the procrastination got the better of him. As they were just leaving from a dinner meal (Nikki was inwardly bummed he hadn’t asked for it yet) he finally asked for it in the parking lot. From there they decided to have an official first date without the audience. They decided to head to Minnehaha Falls Park, it was somewhere they could both just relax and talk. They made there way on the back trails and came across a little beach neither of them had known about before this date. Devon trying to make casual conversation brought up that his dad’s side had red hair too. Nikki interpreted it as him suggesting that their kids would also have red hair. They laughed about it now when they told me this story on our way to their beach on their engagement shoot.

Originally Devon planned to propose at their first date spot on that same beach but the Lord had other plans. The day he was going to do it Minnesota dumped a bunch of snow making it impossibly difficult to get to their destination . Devon switched his plans and he told Nicole that they were going to go to dinner at some where very exclusive . Nicole was a bit confused but thought they might be going out to celebrate her birthday which was the night before. Well it is extremely exclusive, Devon had made dinner for them at his house with candles and the good silverware. Before any meals where touched, Devon got down on one knee and proposed to Nicole. She said yes!

For the engagement session we went back to their favorite beach and enjoyed exploring Minnnehaha Falls Park together! We were so blessed that the rain held off as we walked through some of the muddier trails. It was a beautiful spring evening as everything in Minnesota right now is starting to bud and green. When the sun started to grace us with its presence I couldn’t help but get excited!

Nikki and Devon are excited to be celebrating their love surrounded by friends and family later this summer. Please enjoy some of their photos from their engagement session!

Shadow Falls Park Couples Photography | Dunya & D'Angelo | St Paul Anniversary Photographer

Dunya and D’Angelo meet when walked into a local convenience store. He normally saw men at the counter but this time he walked in an saw Dunya handling the counter instead. He asked her if she had a boyfriend Dunya said yes (even though she didn’t at the time) and he warned her that he was going to steal her in the future so he better watch out!

Fast forward and D ' Angelo was on crutches because he had been messing with a friend and rolled his ankle pretty bad. His nephew came up and told him that that pretty girl was working the cashier again. Through his siblings protest he hobbled over to the convenience store under the pretense of getting pop chips and cigarette s . Dunya took sympathy on his in his fragile state and brought the food out for him and he left that day with her number . They have been together ever since! Next year they will be celebrating their 10 year wedding anniversary!