Ryan + Jenn :: Smith Rock Engagement Session

I’m being honest when I say you can tell a lot about a couple from their engagement session. I had never met Ryan or Jenn and yet from our dozens of emails exchanged I felt like we’d known each other for months. While I thought I was already excited for their October wedding at Brasada Ranch, spending the afternoon with these two made me realize just how thrilled I am to get to be documenting their big day. They’re kind, funny, gorgeous people who love each other with every last fiber of their being.

True to Central Oregon form, in the 48 hours leading up to our session I sent Jenn three emails regarding the weather. Our forecast went from 78 and sunny to 52 and cloudy to 68 with violent thunderstorms. Truth be told, I gave up checking the weather report around 10 the morning of our shoot. Despite the completely unpredictable conditions, Ryan + Jenn were all smiles when we met at Smith Rock State Park. They so graciously laughed at my completely lame and ridiculous jokes and were even up for trekking down the steep and dusty path to the Deschutes River in order to find the perfect spot for photos. Couples like this are what make me the luckiest wedding photographer in the world!

Ryan + Jenn, many, many thanks for adventuring across town with me as I captured your beautiful smiles. I’m so happy this is just the beginning of our time working together!

M.

Dan + Molly

Here’s the thing about Molly – she’s the type of person who, had I not had a mortgage, I would have asked to pay me in hugs. Her very presence exudes joy and happiness and while you don’t need me to tell you this, her smile lights up the world. And although I was terribly nervous to meet Dan for the first time at the engagement session (<< what if he didn’t like me?! What if he thought Molly made a horrible choice in photographers?! What if!!), his calm, sweet, kind demeanor instantly had me smiling. Beside one another, Dan and Molly seem to make everything right in the world.

Dan + Molly, why is July so far away?! Somewhere between kissing in the middle of a baseball field and cuddling on the banks of a river you had me wishing your wedding was this weekend. Thank you for planning an engagement session that was creative and fun and perfectly you. And thank you for being excited about life and love and weddingness. I’m so happy for you both and I cannot wait for this summer!!

P.S. Molly, I hope you understand the resolve it took to not send you one hundred emails full of sneak peeks yesterday. Your ability to take amazing pictures instantly made my job extremely difficult!