I met Zachary at Janette & John’s wedding last July 4th.  Zach was the best man and gave one of the most amazing toasts I have ever heard.  It was like a clean version of a Comedy Central roast that was extremely funny.  He contacted me about a month ago telling me his plan to propose to Alison and we setup a date, time and location for this covert operation  On the day Zach texted me and let me know he is ready and it was go time!  When they arrived we pretended be doing a private model shoot so that she would not be suspicious.  I even set a stone out where I wanted him to stand, so that we would be ready.  He was very nervous on the day as most of us are waiting all day and our lives for that one moment.   After he proposed and she said yes and we came out to congratulate them.  Zach and Alison had a short shooting session afterward and right now they are planning their wedding for early 2011.  We will most certainly be seeing more of this awesome couple…

Zach walked Alison around until the spot cleared out for him to propose.

Notice the stone I placed for where I wanted him to stand.

Alison loves this location and she often paints and photographs here.

I’ve compiled a gallery of my favorite moments captured in 2009. A special thanks goes out to all the couples that gave me the honor of capturing all the fun and heartfelt moments on their special day.

Maxine & Michael are getting married in 2011 and they are doing another Getting to Know You session in 2010, but they wanted to do a shoot right away for Christmas.  I came up with an idea of shooting at a tree farm in formal attire.  They loved the idea so I spoke with the owner of a local tree farm and he opened it for us after hours to shoot there.  We were lucky because the weekend after the shoot they were cutting all the trees down to sell for the holidays.