I am looking for a couple to help me build my portfolio - specifically for engagements portraits. And, what better way to get models than by doing a session giveaway!!! Keep in mind that this is strictly for engaged couples or married couples who just want some updated photos of the two of them.
How to enter the Session Giveaway:
- Post a comment on this post with the following information: (a) How you met & how he proposed, and (b) why this session would be important to you
- Click here and like my facebook page, post a link to my blog through your wall status, and then post another comment telling me you did so.
The DEADLINE is Thursday, June 30th @ 5pm MST, so hurry and get entered!!! Can't wait to meet the lucky couple & get to know them better!
***DISCLAIMER*** Session location must be within a 30-mile radius of Boise, Idaho.
Tim and I met in college on a blind date. Our roommates were dating each other and they set us up. We went to the movies on our first date and it was dark when I first met him, but I remember thinking that he had the most beautiful eyelashes :) That was the last part of August. We got engaged in April over Conference weekend. We actually got tickets for Conference and decided to have lunch at the Capital before the afternoon session. He had put the ring in a rose bud and told me it was a "Cracker Jack" rose like the Cracker Jack snack because it had a prize inside. It was such a happy day! I spent most of Conference looking at my ring--there is really good ring lighting in the Conference Center :)
ReplyDeleteThis session would be important to me because Tim and I are coming up on our 9th anniversary and I recently had a friend who did this same thing and said it was so neat to have couples pictures with her husband again because once you have kids you never really do that anymore.
Larry and I met in Saginaw, Michigan at church. I was home for the summer after my 3rd year at BYU and he was a recently returned missionary who was there visiting a friend. Two days later, he called and asked me to show him around town. He was from Boise, Idaho. The day we met, I was wearing a short blonde wig when I actually had long brown hair. I wasn't sure what to do about that, but I ended up wearing the wig and telling him about it. He convinced me to take off the wig (flat, stringy hair and all). I guess he was ok with it because we were married 10 weeks later. On our first date, he asked me what I would think if he asked me to marry him. I told him I would think he was crazy! A couple of weeks later, he told me he thought that we were supposed to be together and began in earnest to "close the deal". It took him a couple more weeks to convince me, but it is the best decision I have ever made!!
ReplyDeleteI would love this session because back in the "olden days" pictures were not really a priority and I really regret not having any good pictures of us. In October, we will be celebrating our 40th anniversary and I think it would be great to have some pictures showing how our love has endured.
Hi Kim!!! Chad and I met through the singles ward. He was fresh off his mission and I was his first date. We have been together ever since! He proposed a few months later while my parents were up for my cousin's wedding (Chad wanted to ask my dad's permission before officially proposing). He had an elaborate plan to ask me to marry him but it was foiled by my parents' plane landing about 5 hours later than he planned. So he came over to my grandma's house where everyone was saying hi to my parents and he and my dad went for a LONG walk (at least it felt long to me!) His parents lived down the street so he came and got me and asked me to walk him home. Instead he proposed with candles and flowers on my grandma's front porch. Apparently my dad helped set up and that's why it was so long. We just celebrated our 7 year anniversary last week.
ReplyDeleteThis session would be a great opportunity to capture how far we have come in life and how much more we love each other now than when we first met. We have two beautiful daughters and we get pictures of them a lot and every once in awhile we do family portraits but we rarely get pictures of just the two of us.
I think I did everything right :) I liked your page and shared your blog on my facebook wall!
ReplyDeleteHey Kim - Bryce and I met January 2004 at BYU-Idaho while going to school. Bryce teases me and says we were destined to be "ETERNAL friends", I tell you this because it was November 2006 that he proposed to me. It was Thanksgiving Day and we were in Nyssa getting ready to go canoeing with his brothers down the Snake River. We set the canoes in the water to start a fun morning together. All of a sudden Bryce's brothers were nowhere to be seen and off they went. Little did I know that was all part of the plan. We soon stopped alongside the river where we set up chairs to have a fire and warm up, it was cold. I was sitting on Bryce's lap while we were talking, he was scratching my back (with the ring in hand) when all of a sudden Bryce got up and went down on one knee and proposed. I was the happiest girl in the world at that moment and said yes with absolutely NO hesitation. Bryce then took me up a little path to an area that he and his brothers had set up earlier that morning where we celebrated with some sparkling cider. It was a great day celebrating with family and friends. Fast forward to our wedding day, May 5th 2007 we were at our lunch-in with family and friends when his brother wanted to show everyone a short video he had made of Bryce and I. The start of the video was a clip of Bryce proposing to me, it was right then that Bryce and I both realized his brothers had set up a video camera and taped the whole event of him proposing. We were definitely surprised and were very thankful that we behaved well that morning alongside the river when we were celebrating.
ReplyDeleteOh, this session would be important to me because it seems like the idea is always there to get an updated picture, but for some reason it never happens. If we were to win this picture session, there would NO excuses. Hopefully we win!!!
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