Meet Brian. Meet Rachel. Meet Brichel.
These cuties made the trek from Fargo to traipse around outside an abandoned brewery + giggle with each other in a tangle of photogenic weeds. And OH did they do it well.

I can often tell what the tone of the shoot will be before I have even touched my camera.
&It's pretty obvious that when it starts with some volleyball + a giant game of pong, your subjects are going to be the type of couple that are down for anything with a string of endless smiles to match. Turns out I was right. And I ain't mad about it.

The next time these babes grace the blog they'll be in formal attire, exchanging vows in a pretty barn in the countryside.
Guess who can't wait!
Spoiler: ME.
Woohoooo, Brichel!

YOU MADE IT! You're here! You've clicked in to one of my favorite engagement sessions... wait for it... of all time. Whoop, whoop! &I'm ready to throw the virtual confetti.

Meet Jeanna. She's a sports broadcast journalist on Channel 6.Meet Zach. He's a pro hockey player for the Boston Bruins.

There's already a romantic comedy somewhere here in the making, amiright?

Aside from their professions, they're the kind of couple that laughs their way through the alleyways of Saint Paul, smooching their way along the Mississippi River during their engagement session. Relaxed. Real. And reeeeal cute, constantly making the other grin + giggle. They're also a certain brand of stellar that drops a bottle of Prosecco off at your house the day after their session as a thank you. (As if they weren't my favorites already.) Theirs is a cuteness that just clearly doesn't quit, and I'm thrilled to be featuring these lovebirds on the blog. CHEERS to J + Z!

My spirit animal is a unicorn whose glittery mane blows about in a rainbow breeze on the way to the roller rink. Truth. In other words: sequins make my pupils dilate with excitement. Puppies make my fingers compulsively twitch in that MUST PET THE PRETTY kind of way. Photographing two beautiful love birds in the midst of this wonderful whirlwind: cha chiiiiing! Seriously though, Tricia. Way to knock it out of the park on all levels of taste + adorable…ness… (Is that a thing? Yes. It’s time.) It was my first engagement session outta the gate and this season has just begun with a bang.

Congrats, T + J!

I wonder what they must have thought, those travelers headed south down Highway 35 that afternoon.
They would have had only a sliver of a moment to see.
Ryan on bended knee and ring in his hand.
Marissa standing before her boyfriend in disbelief.
A cop looking on, having pulled them over moments before, on the side of the road.

It was during year 3 or 4 when I first met and photographed the A+Z duo. Three or four in a relationship consisting of eight. EIGHT! (A concept I cannot even fathom, given that I was still a teenager 8 years ago.) 

My muse got married.