Take me back to this magical shoot! To the fields and the grass and this lad and lass who flew in from Denver for their once in a lifetime engagement session! It was UNBELIEVABLE! I mean just look at this photo! She is glowing he is so in love with this girl I could cry! Lara and Ryan were so playful and  easy to get along with, you know they are the life of a party because they bring this exuberant energy wherever they go! I cannot wait for their wedding day at JW Marriott where we are going Fairytale all the way! I’ve heard all about their wedding plans and it is going to be one for the books because they are doing it up right!

Lara and Ryan, thank you so much for letting me capture this amazing time between you both, your love is so apparent in the way you interact and I know your wedding day will be even better! Oh yes, you guys I can’t wait to see you both again in January!

Much love, Jenn

“The first I love you: we went to a party with her parents at their friend’s house. We were having such a great time at the party, and then, at the end of the night, her parents called her phone and said we were leaving and that they were already in the car. We started running out of the house to the car, and I suddenly stopped Lara. She was in a hurry to get the car since her parents were waiting for us but she stopped once I stopped her. I couldn’t hold the words in any longer and, as she was waiting to see why I stopped her, I just blurted out the words “I love you.” She immediately said it back, we kissed and we ran to the car. Thinking back on it, I knew I wanted to say it the whole night, but the moment I chose ended up being perfect. On the whole way back, we sat there holding hands and I couldn’t have been happier, enjoying each second, wishing the world stood still.” – Lara

“I never really believed in love at first sight until I met Ryan. We met in high school because one of my friends had a HUGE crush on him and wanted to introduce us. Three of my girl friends, Ryan, and I all went to the movies. When I first met him, he came right up to me and gave me a hug and talked to me like he’s known me years. At that moment, I felt this intense happiness that I had never felt before–happiness that would fade when I wasn’t around him. I didn’t know it at the time but now I feel like that was my soul telling me that he was the one for me. He must have instantly felt it, too because after that day, he started constantly asking my friends about me… he even told my friends, “I’m going to marry that girl one day.” We didn’t start dating until a few years later but once we started, I felt that intense happiness all over again. One day, less than a month after we started dating, the two of us were sitting in my backyard and talking about our future. It was too soon to talk about a future together, so we were just talking about our future’s in general: me, wanting to go to law school, him wanting to seek out a career in geology. And everything clicked for me. I knew without a doubt that I was soooo in love with him and that I never wanted us to be apart, and, although he didn’t say until a couple weeks later, I knew at that moment that he was also in love with me.” – Lara

“Our Proposal Story. Ryan always does this thing were he’ll call me and tell me to get ready for a surprise date, and I won’t be allowed to know any of the details. I was in Arizona last summer, and on the last day before I flew back he called me and told me to get ready for a surprise date. I was stressed about packing and leaving so I told him I didn’t have time, but he insisted. So I got ready, and he drove me to a dine-in movie. The movie we watched was so stupid, and we spent the entire time making fun of it. Before the movie was over, he told me that he made dinner reservations so we had to leave to make the dinner reservation. So we run out of the movie and he we’re walking under this tunnel and he’s telling me all of the reasons he loves me as we’re walking down. Then, we make to the end of the tunnel and ALL of his family and my family (even my dog) are standing there and cheering, before I could even process how many people were there, he was down on his knee. It was so perfect because I was not expecting it at all (on that day; I had been bugging him about proposing for months lol) and everyone we love were there with us! We went to dinner with a group of 25 right after!” – Lara   “I think what makes our relationship work so well is  our commitment to one another. We would sacrifice anything for the other person. We have such a high level of communication; we tell each other everything: no matter how silly, no matter how small. Because of that, we truly understand the other person. She knows what I’m thinking. I can tell how her day was by the tone of her voice. We talk about everything but we also understand everything. Because of the deep level of understand we have, we know how to respond to any obstacle the other faces. We’re serious when we need to be but funny when it’s appropriate. We have the same humor, and I can turn her stressful day into an okay with a joke and vice versa. We’re there for each other and never hesitate to help each other even if one us is helping with something we don’t understand. For example, if she’s stressed about law school, she’ll talk it out with me, even if I don’t understand what she’s saying I’ll offer my opinion, or even try to help her find the answer. And if I’m struggling with something with work, she’ll sit with me for hours, reading emails to me, or editing emails for me, or trying to figure out something she doesn’t understand just to take some stress off of me. No matter what happens, we find a reason to smile, a reason to laugh, a reason to be happy–happy because we have each other. Our relationship works so well because we were made for each other.” – Ryan