Category engagement

Meet Chris & Ana.

Ana is the type of per­son that you can’t help but just feel happy around. She’s effer­ves­cent and ado­ra­ble. I dare you to meet her and not smile. Go ahead I dou­ble dog dare you. Chris obviously already lost that dare because he’s all smi­les when she’s around.

Chris is hand­some and kind and SMART. He’s going for his PhD in nutri­tion at UConn — Ana refers to him as “Mr. Nutrition” — and now I refer to Ana with ques­tions for Mr. Nutri­tion

A plan ahead sort of girl, she and Chris boo­ked me for their 2012 wed­ding this past February. In March, 2 months before the e.shoot, this arri­ves in my email - Melissa, I just had to share this with you, then I pro­mise to stop emai­ling you like a crazy per­son! I was SO exci­ted over get­ting our pic­tu­res taken, that I went on Etsy bought a prop… It’s the CUTEST sign! It says, “The Blesso’s, est. August 17, 2012″ I CANNOT WAIT!” (sign made by etsy ven­dor MRC Wood Pro­ducts)

Now first things first, HOORAY for props! Secondly, I’m just as likely to “email like a crazy per­son” and I love every second of it. Third — can you see how infec­tious her exci­te­ment is?! I couldn’t wait to meet them in per­son. They did not disappoint!

Seriously — how gor­geous are these two? Is that even legal?

They’re just so NICE. We met up at Chris’ parents house and hung out. I wan­ted to have a bbq and tie up a ham­mock and read a book. They are all just that rela­xed and inviting.

As we wan­de­red out back I noti­ced the shed and said “oooh I like that door!” Chris infor­med me that that’s where he had his prom pho­tos taken. So I requi­red him to ree­nact it, this time with his per­ma­nent prom date. He’s such a good sport.

Having to think outside the prom box I used the other side of the shed. Smooth huh? I’m such a genius I tell you. HAHA.  Still though — I love these two (pic­tu­res and peo­ple.. but I bet you’d pic­ked up on that by now)

Chris’ parents lawn was imma­cu­late so I thought I’d get up close and per­so­nal with it

Oooooh Bella… Bella is their sweet puppy, most defi­ni­tely a daddy’s girl. She joi­ned us for the pho­tos after put­ting her owners through a par­ti­cu­larly rough night by deci­ding to snack on some rat poi­son. Having taken the pro­per pre­cau­tions they were sure they were all set and ready to roll. Less than 5 minu­tes after shoo­ting with Bella her poor face star­ted to swell up and Chris’ dad rushed her to the emer­gency vet — seems somewhere in a split second she was stung by a bee and had quite the reac­tion but not kno­wing or seeing the bee we could all only hope it wasn’t rela­ted to the rat poi­son. Talk about a Diva Dog! <3 I’m SO relie­ved she tur­ned out to be just fine though.

Since Chris had just chan­ged into his but­ton down, we snag­ged a few more pho­tos then called the ses­sion finished so they could follow over to the vet and check on their furry kid.

I had so much fun falling for these two. Ana’s already star­ted the count­down to the wed­ding — - only about 62 more weeks to go! I’m super proud of these pho­tos — but I was really relie­ved when Ana pas­sed Chris’ res­ponse on to me .… “Can we blow one of them up HUGE and run through it at the recep­tion?” (yes! please do!) and then even more relie­ved when I found out his mom loved them too!

Yay Bles­sos!