When Kristie and Chuck told me their proposal story, it was clear there was a special place we needed to go for their engagement session. Kristie has so many happy memories with her father from Deer Valley YMCA camp. They spent many weekends there for Daddy-daughter camp when Kristie was a little girl. She and her father would go out on the lake, hike to the spring, and climb up the mountain to the big overlook. Sadly, Kristie’s Dad passed away when she was fifteen and they weren’t able to continue making such beautiful memories. Fast forward many years, Kristie had met a great guy named Chuck at Hofbrauhaus while she was out with some friends and they had been dating for over a year. Chuck knew that he wanted to ask Kristie to marry him but he wouldn’t be able to ask her father for his blessing first, so he did the next best thing. Chuck asked Kristie to take him to see the summer camp she had loved so much and go on a hike with him to the overlook he had heard so much about. It was there overlooking the lake in the place where she had made so many memories with her dad that Chuck got down on one knee and proposed. I was so glad that they shared their story with me and wanted to go back to the place where it all began at Deer Valley. Thanks to Mother Nature putting on her best fall colors, the view from their proposal spot over the laurel highlands was a show stopper.
Plenty of Mountain Laurel in the Laurel Highlands!
We shot all the way through sunset and into the dark the night of their first session. It was a long drive home and the area was so remote, we saw a baby bobcat cub cross the dirt road in front of my car! Since we weren’t able to include Kristie and Chuck’s two fur kids in their first session, we met up again a few weeks later at Northmoreland Park. I got to meet their two rescued greyhounds, Miles and Chloe.
I love Chloe’s one ear in the air.
I can’t wait for saturday to shoot their wedding at Lingrow Farm!
