Incandescent Dreams: Officially, Forest & Sarah

Honest. Joyful. These are the two words that I think best describe the love that Sarah and Forest share. They both overflow with love. A deep true love. It will always keep them smiling and laughing. I was beyond excited to be able to take their engagement photos and show you a glimpse of their love for each other.

Forest proposed to Sarah on July 29th. It was a complete surprise. Sarah had been in Alaska for a wedding over that weekend so he went to pick her up from the airport. He was all dressed up in a tie and everything, complete with flowers. She was so excited to see him and didn't really think anything was happening even though he was all dressed up - just that he looked nice. (: They came back to her house and Forest convinced her to go out on a walk in the park by our house. They went back to their favorite little place in the woods with a perfect little log. He told her they should take a photo together so he set up his tripod and got it all ready. They took a couple photos and then Forest pretended his battery had died, so he reached into his bag and pulled out what looked like the battery. Sarah was sitting on the log ready for the next photo, completely oblivious. Forest set the timer and ran over to her, but this time, he got down on one knee and asked the big question. Sarah was COMPLETELY shocked and surprised! She had absolutely no idea. Of course, she said yes and now they are happily engaged. It was perfect.

Last week, Sarah asked me if I would take their engagement photos. I very happily agreed and then the rest of the late night was spent with us planning the big day. You can imagine all the ideas and planning and screaks and laughs that went in to two photographers brainstorming the shoot. (: So, so many ideas floated around. The main idea was to document them out on a day and show their relationship. We were all so excited and were counting the hours until the time came.

All of these things came together to create their evening out....

Forest came over to our house and picked Sarah up. Then we drove to the most amazing cafe for dinner. Its their favorite date place and I understand why. I would live there if I could (: They had a three course meal complete with gelato ice-cream in olive oil and sea salt. Then off to the woods we went. We drove up to this remote valley. We found ourself isolated from the world, surrounded in trees. It's beautiful there, the way the trees wrap around the enormous meadow in the wilderness: the perfect place to photograph.

We spent a good two hours photographing there, and spent 28 gigabytes of memory cards total. It was stunning, they were too cute, and we had way too much fun, even though Forest got hungry and crashed about an hour after dinner. I was to thankful to be able to share this special time with two very amazing people. Here's the result (: