One day I received an email from a guy name Wade saying that he was going to fly out to Boston from Texas and propose to his girlfriend, who was performing in Don Giovanni that weekend. He was going to propose Friday night, and could we take pictures Saturday morning? How exciting! I’ve never done an engagement shoot where it was a surprise to the girl, but I immediately fell in love with the idea. I love the happiness when a couple gets engaged. When a girl puts that shiny sparkly diamond ring on her finger, they have an unmistakable-wow-I’m-going-to-get-married glow about them! When I met them the next morning for the shoot, they were so happy and in love, so it made my job sooo much easier! They are such a sweet and adorable couple, and I’m so honored to photograph such a special time in their life!

I was initially worried about this session because it was raining a lot that weekend and ended up being one of the worse floods in a century. We shot the session very early in the morning to try to avoid the massive downpour that was approaching. Thankfully, when we started, it was only light rain, and then it started raining much harder shortly after the shoot. Kristin and Wade were up for anything, and I’m so happy that we got a few shots outdoors and they didn’t mind getting a bit wet! Thankfully, the session turned out much better than I had imagined, and we found a couple of nice indoor locations in the Theatre District without having to walk more than a few blocks. That’s what I love so much about Boston! I can shoot almost anywhere in the city and I’ll find a nice spot to shoot. I have so many favorites from this session that the hardest part about blogging is choosing which images to show! I’ve narrowed them down here, but you can see more pictures on my Facebook fan page or the entire session on my website.

I have no idea what is going on here but I think it’s really cute.

They are both musically talented, so we took a few photos of Wade playing the piano. This reminds of me Edward playing the piano with Bella in the room, which is my favorite part of the Twilight movie because it’s so calming and melodic.

At one point, they mentioned that they missed their pets, so I had them pull up pictures of their dog and cat on their phones.

While I was taking this picture, a group of five construction workers stopped working on the building next door and approached me. I was a little worried that they would tell me to stop taking pictures because I was in a construction zone. One of the guys asked me what I was doing. I started to get a little scared and told them that we’re taking engagement photos. Then he yelled up to the guy on the scaffolding, “Hey Paul, I was right, that couple’s gittin married!” (insert heavy Boston accent.) Aw, even construction workers can be total softies.

This is the opera house where Kristin was going to perform that night. We couldn’t go inside the theatre, but they were kind enough to let us shoot in the lobby.