Catherine and Phil were such a pleasure to work with this past weekend! They were so at ease with one another, it was like they had known each other their entire lives. They met nearly three years ago during Memorial Day weekend at Virginia Beach and hit it off right away. At the time, Phil was living there and Catherine in Richmond, so there were many visits back and forth before Phil moved to Richmond. They both love to travel and have visited several places, such as Atlanta, Savannah, Knoxville and many small weekend trips (Eastern Shore, apple picking, and VA vineyards for wine tastings). They also like to cook together too and aren’t afraid to try what they have learned from cooking shows. Ive heard they’ve made some pretty awesome dinners because of it!
I asked Catherine how Phil had proposed and thought it would be best to tell it in her own words. 🙂 “It was New Year’s Eve 2012. Earlier in the day we had talked about whether or not we wanted to go out for dinner or stay in. We decided we should stay in. Because it was New Year’s Eve, I decided I wanted to dress up anyway and make dinner. Phil got home, started a fire, we had dinner and poured some wine. He said to me he had something for me. I thought he just had a gift left over from Christmas that he hadn’t gotten a chance to give to me. He handed me this long package wrapped with a bow. It felt like a picture frame so I started unwrapping the present. As I did I noticed in each picture that Phil was holding a letter that spelled out a word. As I moved down to the bottom of the picture I realized what all those words were spelling out. The words were: “Will You Marry Me” And as I looked up after realizing what the pictures said, Phil was kneeling down on one knee with a ring. And of course I said “Yes!” and the rest is history!” How cute is that?!?! I LOVE hearing about the fun ways the guys propose!
Below are some favorites from our session together! I am thrilled that they chose the location in Goochland, it is one of my favorite places to shoot! I had such a fun time with them and cannot wait for their wedding in September! Thank you Catherine and Phil for such a fun time!
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This photo below was at the very beginning of the session and I could tell right away it was going to be awesome!
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The lighting was amazing that day!
LOVE!
Love these two images below…
LOVE this one! I have SO many favorites haha
Can you tell why I LOVE Goochland!??!
Her ring was amazing! I love the sapphire…and its perfect since their wedding is in September!
So…if you saw my post on Facebook about face planting at my engagement session…this was it! I did that right before we took these beautiful images…
A new favorite ring shot!
Yes! Love this..
Such a playful photo below..I adore it 🙂
Another favorite below!
Phil and Catherine both love football so we just had to take some photos of them playing together 🙂 They love attending games when they can, especially their college teams, NC State and University of Tennessee. I think Catherine’s favorite game was when they went to a football game in Atlanta in 2012 where NC State played UT…..UT won! Can you guess why it may be her favorite game?! Haha!
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