Amanda wanted a tire swing, and unfortunately the only one I had access to had been torn down…and I had been looking for another one forever.  Luckily Jon went to work hanging one on some family property, what a perfect spot!

They’re so cute!  It had to be a blast to act like a kid again!

Finally, they both love baseball, but rival teams….but they have fun with it!

It was so wonderful to meet you both!  I can’t wait for your big day!!

You might recognize Lauren and Blake from last fall when I did a couple session with them.  At the time they talked about how they want to get married on a certain day that is special to them, but they weren’t engaged yet.  In the time since, they talked about having me photograph their wedding but still no engagement.  Then I got a call for another wedding on their date and I gave them the heads up so they booked me for their wedding.  And still no engagement   This was all still last fall…

Not long after, Blake contacted me and told me his plans to surprise Lauren with a proposal and have me photograph it all!  We went back and forth about how to lure her to the spot he chose without tipping her off…of course now it’s spring and their wedding date is inching closer and closer so Lauren has been expecting it soon.

Last week, I emailed Lauren to ask her if she could model for me while I train my new intern…we met last night at the Botanical Gardens and as we started walking to the right spot Lauren showed me her hand and told me still no ring!  Then she started chatting about how she really thinks it will happen in the next week or two and I had to really fight to keep a straight face!  We got the the right spot and had Lauren start posing for us and I said the code words for Blake to come out from the other side of the hedges.   Check out the first shot…Lauren was posing and didn’t notice Blake until he was right next to her:

She still didn’t know what was going on, and it made me smile to look at the whole sequence last night and see that he had the box in his hand as he walked up to her, but she had her eyes on his face the whole time.   Then he got down on one knee:

We were all crying…my hands were shaking…it was so beautiful!!

And WOW did he do a great job on the ring!!   Check her out blinding everyone on the news this morning here.

Jessica and I left them and I turned to get one last shot…Blake was still wiping her tears.  Lauren and Blake, you are such an amazing couple together, your love for each other is overwhelming!  I can not wait for your wedding!

I had a lot of images I loved…but didn’t want to over load the blog so go to my facebook page to see the rest!

Don’t forget to have your friends and family comment on your session blog posts…my first family to do this had their 25 comments within an hour and will have a surprise coming with their order!

But for now still getting through November’s sessions, check out Hayley and Matt’s engagement session in BG.  We started out at the courthouse, I love buildings like this and it’s pretty cool that it’s where they will get their marriage license, and it’s where I got my marriage license…and they’re getting married at Nazareth Hall on June 12, and I got married at Nazareth Hall on June 12.  Crazy, huh?

We headed downtown and Matt had to show off his mad jumping skills!

We were talking about their love of Boston and how they brought their Red Sox clothes when we saw the truck…we ran to get them changed!

It was so fun hanging out with you two…can’t wait for June!

They’re so cute together:

Sara did the little foot kick in the second picture often…I want a wedding day picture of them like this:

Lots and lots more coming soon!!

See, check out the second picture, Tyce is giving me that look – like, what do they think they’re doing?  Can’t they see what an exciting toy I have?

I LOVE this next shot, not only because of what an adorable couple Blake and Lauren are, but Tyce cracks me up…first he thinks he’s a lap dog, and second can you guess where Blake hid the doggie crack?

Then, we left Tyce at home and went out for a little wine picnic.

I had fun with the gorgeous light, and it was nice to look at these tonight after all these gloomy days we’ve been having.  They are great dancers:

Two new favorites…and new additions at the studio:

It was so nice to see you both again!  Stop in at the studio if you’re at the Applebutter festival Sunday   And I will have the rest for you soon!

A was brave, just a minute before this one he was *thisclose* to a snake!

And finally, who cares if it was cold outside…A and B turned up the heat!

I’m short on words tonight…recovering from a long weekend.  Saturday ended up being a beautiful day for a wedding after we had a windy rainy morning!  Can’t wait to go through the pictures…  And today we had some wiring work going on so the power was off the computer and I had a nice day hanging out with the kids.  Oh and then a super cute baby boy, Mr. Serious who made me work this evening.  So I had been pretty much disconnected from the internet world since Friday night and I have some email catch up to do tomorrow.

When we first talked about their engagement session J and C wanted to incorporate their dogs, which I love!  It makes for a fun session and so special for them.  They were smart and brought a dog handler (thanks to J’s mom!)  And they were the cutest couple ever with their dogs!  Hopefully C doesn’t mind me calling him cute   They told me way back when we first met that C isn’t into pictures, and doesn’t like pictures.  But there are a lot of guys out there the same way, and girls too!  (I don’t like being in front of the camera much either)  but I hope he’ll agree that it was fun!  I can’t wait for their wedding at one of my favorite spots, Nazareth hall where I got married years ago…

They picked such a great spot…loved it!  This first one is  adorable, one dog looking at them like what are you doing?  And the other is all, come on let’s get on with it…I got my leash on ready to go people.  And this second shot?  Yep…new favorite!

Hey look, he’s smiling!  I love this one of J too…gorgeous!  And this last one cracked me up…not sure what is going on with that dog’s tongue!

I had fun with you guys!  I’ll show you more soon and look forward to your wedding day!

Meet Danielle and Kevin.  If you’ve been to a Mud Hen or Univeristy of Toledo game recently, you’ve heard him before… oh, and in between these two pictures, we almost got run over by Ben Konop…I’m telling you, exciting night.

Danielle looked INCREDIBLE in this dress!

Do you know how many times I’ve missed this sign?  Great eyes Danielle!

I have some outtakes from the session on my Facebook page here:  Jennifer Mott Photography Facebook Page then look for the outtake album under photos.  Make yourself a fan while you’re there… I plan to annouce a limited summer mini event soon and the information will be there first.

I can’t wait for your wedding, I’ll have to get some black all stars to fit in…and you’ll see the rest of your proofs soon!

This is J and J and I’ll be shooting their wedding next year.  They are so sweet and so in love!  We met at the studio and let me tell you how nice it was to be able to go back there to warm up and change in between shooting.   Just a few quick and I’ll try to get my other sessions up in the next few days:

Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!!

Toledo is such a small town.  I was just talking to K and N about where they went to school, grew up, etc. and N said he grew up in the south end and went to OLPH.  Wait, I went there.  Yep, he’s a year older than my brother and his brother was a year older than me…and my mom taught him.   Then talking to K’s mom, she worked with my cousin at St. John’s.  Which is where these two met, they were both teaching at St. Johns. 

I just love these first two, such love:

They were trying to be serious American Gothic style…yeah right!  And I love the second one, the colors and reflection of them in the water:

We were laughing so much:

I have to laugh at this one, I told them I thought they looked like they just finished filming the bachelor and are doing press photos:

Showing off her ring:

Love this one, cracks me up!

Congrats you two!  It was so nice to meet you and your famillies!