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Caitlyn & Nicholas’ Hannibal Square Engagement

Hannibal Square engagements in Winter Park are always a blast when you have a couple as sweet as Cailtyn Cook and Nicholas Montes.  My duo met me out in the heart of Winter Park in the rose garden to start their engagement session before we adventured around the small town in search of floral and pretty backdrops. Nicholas first laid …

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Emily & Frank’s Sun Kissed Caribbean Beach Engagement

Emily and Frank’s sun kissed Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort engagement was pure Florida. My sweethearts flew in from Illinois in search of a wedding venue for their special day along with a beach engagement. Disney’s Caribbean Beach Resort is a special place to Emily and Frank as they stay their often along with their family. Memories of going to the …

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Chelsea & Bryan’s Downtown Tampa Engagement

Chelsea and Bryan’s Tampa engagement at Davis Islands Garden Club during sunrise was the perfect way to kick off their engagement year! My duo will be tying the knot waterside at the Rusty Pelican come April of next year. Florida State University is where Chelsea and Bryan’s story began. During a tailgating party at Indian Village, Chelsea and her friend walked …

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Erin & Trenton’s Musical Club Lake Plantation Engagement

Erin and Trenton met me out at the beautiful Club Lake Plantation Wedding Venue in Apopka, Florida for their engagement session. My sweethearts will be wedding at the Club Lake Plantation as well, so it was absolutely the perfect spot for their engagement photos. You may remember Erin and Trenton from their senior portraits or Trenton’s sister Rebekah’s wedding. I have inadvertently captured the two …

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Hannah & Hunt’s Tropical Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Engagement

Hannah and Huntington met me out at the beautiful Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress in Orlando, Florida. Known for its botanical garden and priceless statues, the two couldn’t have imagined a place more perfect for their engagement than their upcoming wedding venue. Hannah and Hunt’s story begins by chance. During an ice storm in Nashville, Tennessee where they live, Hannah’s friend invited her over …

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Ashlee & Devin’s New Orleans French Quarter Engagement

Ashlee and Devin met me out at Disney’s Port Orleans Resort for their New Orleans inspired engagement. With location up in the air, my sweethearts loved my suggestion of a place that felt like we traveled out of the state. My darlings story begins with meeting through their mutual friend Courtney who just so happens to be the wife of Devin’s childhood best …

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Katie & Kyle’s Dinosaur Leu Gardens Engagement

Katie and Kyle met me out at Leu Gardens for a Jurassic Park inspired engagement. While their wedding location has not been officially announced, you can surely bet it will be filled with their favorite extinct reptilians. Katie and Kyle first met one another at work, but both were dating another person at the time. Over time the two parted …

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Sarah & Wayne’s Floral Washington Oaks State Park Engagement

Sarah and Wayne met me out in St Augustine for a beautiful outdoor engagement at Washington Oaks Gardens State Park. While it was a chilly morning, the two warmed one another up with sweet kisses and snuggling up in one another’s arms. The moment when you first meet the person you are going to spend the rest of your life with truly …

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Danielle & Ian’s Park Ave. Winter Park Engagement

Park Ave engagements in Winter Park are so sweet, especially when you combine backdrops of Peterbrooke Chocolatier and the gorgeous gardens.  Danielle and Ian envisioned a session that was true to the two of them filled with a whole lot of hugs and laughter. My sweethearts’ story begins with a five year old mixed Rhodesian Ridgeback / Boxer mix, Jetta. …

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Bekah & Justin’s Leu Gardens Engagement

Bekah and Justin met me out at the beautiful Harry P. Leu Gardens for their outdoor engagement. While they will be wedding the knot in Melbourne, Orlando was the perfect spot for our morning session, as Bekah was celebrating her bachelorette party with her girls at the downtown Orlando Hyatt that night. High school sweethearts, Bekah and Justin originally met back in 2006 …

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Chelsea & Steve’s Disney Boardwalk Engagement

Chelsea and Steve met me out for an early morning engagement at the lovely Disney Boardwalk.  Lovers of Disney and the 50s, the two dressed in their formal best for an adorable session. The two first crossed paths through a mutual friend while on vacation. They connected on Facebook, but anything more than a few likes a week was out …

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Amber & Rhode’s Cypress Grove Estate House Engagement

Amber and Rhode met me out at the beautiful Cypress Grove Estate House at Cypress Grove Park for an oak and mossy filled nature setting. Rhode’s little one Braydon also tagged along to join in on the fun for a few family pictures for the holidays. Back in November of 2012, Amber and Rhode met through a mutual friend on the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN …

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Renee & Lawrence’s Casa Feliz Engagement

Renee and Lawrence met me out at Casa Feliz for their engagement session in Winter Park, Florida.  My sweethearts wanted a mix of the downtown Winter Park vibe along with a dapple of photos at their soon to be wedding venue for their engagement session. Renee and Lawrence actually met during their senior year of college at the University of …

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Lina & Caleb’s One Year Anniversary at Cypress Grove Estate House

Lina and Caleb met me out at the beautiful Cypress Grove Estate House for their darling holiday session with their pup Sammy. You may remember my sweethearts from their LDS Orlando Temple wedding in Windermere, Florida back in June of last year. I love keeping in touch with my couples and Lina and Caleb have become very dear to me. From first capturing their engagement to their wedding …

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Jessica & Jeff’s Foggy Morning Disney Boardwalk Engagement

Jessica and Jeff met me out at the picture perfect Disney Boardwalk for their foggy morning engagement. I just loved the light greys and blues in the sky during their session, which made for very romantic and moody lighting. My sweethearts actually met online through eHarmony.  Jeff first caught Jessica’s eye by his profile picture of him holding a Great Dane, which happen …

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Melanie & Alex’s Boat Dock Engagement

Where do I begin?  As I sat down to write this story, I realized that in just a few short months my best friend would be marrying the man of her dreams.  I realized that I would soon have to write a toast, help her put on her dress, and make sure the bridal suite was clean for photos while …

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Morgan & Tyler’s St. Augustine Night of Lights Engagement

Morgan and Tyler met me out in St Augustine for their engagement session at the Lightner Museum during the annual ‘Nights of Lights’ holiday event. Nights of Lights is a beautiful time taking place during the holidays where over 3 million (holy moly!) lights on strung on many of the downtown businesses and historic landmarks. One of my favorite spots to …

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Jessica & Scott’s Langford Park Engagement

Jessica and Scott Langford Park engagement in downtown Orlando was the perfect spot.  Located near Dickson Azalea Park, the sweet little park is definitely one of my new favorite spots and tends to be passed by with everyone heading to Dickson, but my oh my the beautiful light the park receives is too good to be true. Jessica and Scott actually …

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Yuli & Patrick’s Mead Garden Engagement

Yuli and Patrick met me out at Mead Botanical Garden for their outdoor Florida engagement among the fauna and foliage. On route to their wedding venue the Rusty Pelican in Tampa for more planning, the two traveled up from Fort Lauderdale for a quick little detour engagement session in Orlando. My sweethearts actually met by chance at a local Starbucks when ordering their …