Meet Maddie and Christopher, the JZP New Year Wedding Giveaway winners.

I can’t really pinpoint exactly why I chose them out of the stack of entries.

Honestly, the best I can explain it is that they’re basically just awesome.

They’re both baristas so of course we had to figure out a way to work a french press into the session.

Fun fact: Before they were engaged Christopher bought this dress for Maddie as a Christmas present with the secret motive of her wearing it in their engagement photos — as he already had the proposal on his mind. The man’s got style.

In brainstorming ideas before a session sometimes a particular movement will come to mind for a particular couple. The image above was the idea that my brain gave me specifically for Christopher and Maddie.

Looking back on the session, the dreary, windy weather sets the perfect mood in these images but in the moment I had not been super-pumped about the weather up to this point in the session.

But then we were gifted with this sunset.

And it was all okay.

Yep. Christopher and Maddie, I think you guys are awesome.

Just thought you should know.