Neil + Violet = Engaged

I’ve been really excited to blog about this engagement session. Violet and Neil are the type of couple that a photographer wishes for. They were so loving and naturally affectionate with one another, even when I didn’t have my camera in their face. Actually, it was almost difficult to get them to just look at the camera and smile for more than a shot or two at a time! I told them this, and Violet responded, “Well, you told us to treat it like a date, so we are!” (Wow, I need to use that one more often!) hee hee. At one point, I turned my back for one second, and turned around to catch them in the middle of a very serious game of thumb war

They have such a beautiful story, too! They met on eharmony, and  ”clicked”. They met at a local Starbucks on January 2^nd, 2010. From that moment, they hit it off, and Neil proposed to Violet in June. They went to the beach and while we they were walking around in the sand, he asked her to “turn around and don’t peek!”.  When he asked Violet to turn around, it said “Will you marry me” in the sand. 

Violet and Neil are a unique couple, so I wanted this engagement session to be unique to their relationship. Some of the locations were selected based on where they met and where Neil proposed. Neil plays guitar a lot and sings, so he brought his guitar, and I was lucky to hear him play one of the songs he wrote. It was beautiful! They pamper each other with lots of love notes and flowers, so we hung some of the notes in the background of some of the shots, and Violet likes to go  muddin’  in her truck, which we had to include as well! She told me that her truck is her 3^rd baby (Neil, her cat, then the truck). Oh! And the quilt in some of the pictures, was her baby blanket

I enjoyed this session so much, and I’m looking forward to photographing their wedding in August!

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