You guys, Meghan and Matt are ridiculously adorable together.
I am SO GLAD this session is FINALLY (and by “finally” I mean “10-months-later”) on the blog because it was so unique to them.
Matt is a band director and Meghan is now a math teacher. So it made perrrrrfect sense for us to create a classroom setting for their engagement photos last December. Ahhh, young teacher love.
Thankfully Meghan’s mom had a lot of this available for our use since she ALSO is a teacher. I cannot say enough thanks to Mrs. Stearns or to Meghan and Matt for  hauling it all out for our session after I presented the “what-if-we-built-a-classroom?” scenario.
Now Meghan is in her first year of teaching but even at this point with just student teaching under her belt Meghan had the “teacher stare” down solid.
This was definitely one of my most favorite parts of the session — when we had Matt write “lines” saying “I will not kiss the teacher, I will not kiss the teacher, I will not kiss the teacher . . . “
It didn’t seem to work for him, huh?
 Preeeeeeeeesh, presh, presh, preshpresh.
Thank you two for being so willing to pull together a semi-crazy photographer idea and to work your teacher selves in front of the camera like the crazy-beautiful-in-love duo you are. I’m not sure about how proper that last sentence-structure was, so I’ll just be glad neither of y’all are English teachers. However, there’s no promise my mom isn’t going to comment on this post to correct me though . . .
On that note, be looking back on the blog relatively soon for Meghan and Matt’s wedding blogpost from this past May!
It was an evening this past June a couple of hours before our session when I heard the thunder.
I reached to open the blinds to my office window and the overcast sky told me what I suspected so I made the call.
Kaitlyn’s voice on the other end told me she was aware of the weather too.
I gave her the options:
– reschedule
– find an indoor location
– brave the rain
Her answer: “Why don’t we just play in the rain?”
I knew I liked that girl . . .
I think I know what you may be thinking: “BRAAAAAAVE the rain?!?! I see umBRELLas, and AWNings, INdoors and PARKing garages. That’s not BRAVERY!”
Well, just you wait.
Seriously you two — y’all make the rain look lovely.
Thanks for playing in the rain together and letting me document.
I’m ridiculously excited for your wedding this December!
Meet Brenna and Josef.
I will give one of my blog readers 10 points and four gold stars worth of blog-stalker-awesomeness if anyone (who doesn’t already know Brenna or Josef) can name under what circumstances Brenna has previously been on the blog (in three separate posts, I do believe).
We started the engagement shoot at Recycled.
Why?
Because Brenna and Josef’s favorite thing to do together is read. Specifically Josef. Specifically aloud. Specifically to Brenna.
When they’re driving, when they’re cooking, when they’ve got nothing else going on — Josef reads aloud to Brenna. Now tell me that isn’t the most precious thing you’ve ever heard?
They’ve been together since high school. Sure, there was time apart here and there in the span of years from then until now. But they always came back to each other.
And now, with a wedding planned for next September, they’re back together to stay.
Next Brenna and Josef wanted some pictures with the courthouse to speak to their born-and-raised Dentonite heritage.
I love this. I just really do.
Next we spent a bit of time on some railroad tracks.
Why? Because Brenna and Josef do a lot of traveling. Specifically to each other. Specifically because Josef lives and works in Utah and Brenna in Texas.
And this, ladies and gentlemen, was where the magic first began.
I just love these above two images. Love.
I like that we end this post where this relationship started.
That’s nice. Really nice.
Meet Renee, Caleb and their dog, Chanel.
 And yes, Caleb consented to having a dog named “Chanel,” much to Renee’s delight.
After all, this is the same man whose first sighting with Renee was at the spa where she used to work — he was coming in for a facial.
True love really can spark anywhere.
(Your skin looks great, by the way, Caleb.)
We started out in Renee and  Caleb’s new neighborhood, where they had just recently bought a home together.
After snagging some shots with their dear Chanel, we headed to the Denton square. Caleb and Renee both spent most of their growing up years in Denton, but once they started dating they realized they could both trace their grandfathers back to the same town in Ohio. Connections are fun.
After we had taken a few shots in front of this empty store-front Caleb looked up at me real confused and rather skeptical. “Does this look prettier in pictures?” he asked.
We’ll let y’all be the judge . . .
You two do make a picnic table look good, that’s for sure.
As comedic as Caleb liked to play things (above), I was rather impressed to see how convincing his more serious side was (below).
Oh, cut it out, you two.
Renee, you are just fabulous.
Renee and Caleb, y’all are great together.
In front of an abandoned store-front.
On a picnic table.
In an alley.
Even on a loading dock.
Just, plain great together.
That’s my stamp of approval, anyway.
I’m excited for their September wedding at The (ever-lovely) Milestone, coming up in the next few months!
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