Rachel and Justin Are Engaged

Great news for the New Year - Justin asked Rachel to marry him - and she said Yes!

Justin did a great job picking out a ring :) it's beautiful!

We headed to the Ravine Gardens for our shoot. It was a beautiful location, with plenty of locations for awesome pictures!


I loved the rocks that were literally everywhere!

We had a lot of fun!

The thing I enjoyed most about this shoot was that Justin and Rachel were both willing to try anything I asked of them!



As you can tell from this series :).

I talked with them a little about building their marriage around their relationship with Christ.
This is the verse they chose together, to establish their marriage on.


Such a loving couple! But, don't worry, June will be here before you know it!

Rachel literally smiled the entire time we were together. The photos you see where she isn't smiling?
Those were the times I asked her to not smile :).
(I just proofread this post and there AREN'T any pictures of Rachel not smiling :).)

Isn't she gorgeous? The light and colors behind this gazebo was perfect!


And, as my photography students all know, this isn't a true Alice Hendon Photography shoot - unless there are shoe shots and . . .

. . . someone ends up in a tree! hahahaha!

It was sooooooooo much fun!


Rachel ... Justin ... thanks for letting me document this marvelous time in your lives!
God's blessings on your upcoming marriage! Always put Him first in your relationship, and in  your decisions.
He will be faithful to both of you!

Keegan Proposed

Keegan invited me to come along on a surprise photo shoot. Lindsay had been wanting pictures for some time.
This was a compete surprise for her. And it was great fun for me!
Here is what happened :).

We met at Lake Alice.

As we walked down a sidewalk alongside the wedding chapel, Keegan dropped to one knee and took Lindsay's hand.

I totally almost missed it. I should have realized Keegan wouldn't be able to wait very long before he asked Linday to marry him.


Well, of course she said yes!

I loved sharing this moment with the two of them! Incredible!

I'd say Lindsay was excited and happy!

And Keegan was like, "Yes!"
Thanks for inviting me to share in your proposal. What an awesome way to spend my morning!

Ashley and Otis

A couple days ago, I posted some engagement photos of Ashely and Otis. Here are some more captures from that day.

I really love this spot in the water gardens. The park boasts about their waterfalls. Well, here's one - lol! I grew up in Newfoundland where they had waterfalls that were a hundred feet or more. But this is still a really peaceful, beautiful location for photos. And Ashley and Otis were beautiful together here.

This photo really should have gone in the previous post. Oops! Better late than never :).

We were admiring the beautiful trees just outside the Vinery and I asked what they thought about climbing trees. lol! They both ended up in the tree and I think these were some of our best pictures from the day :).




I know there are duplicates here. But. This is my blog and I can do that :).

Waiting on her Prince Charming.



On Facebook, Ashley made the comment, "In this together." I think this is a perfect statement and here is the picture to accompany it.


In June, I hope to be showing you photos from their wedding!

Congratulations, Ashley! Congratulations, Otis! The two of you are perfect for each other. Two parts of a whole!

An Engaging Kind of Morning

The morning was off to a great start. Ashley and Otis met me at the Kanapaha Botanical Gardens to take some pictures of the two of them, and of their son's first birthday.

Lots of smiles, lots of hugs, lots of kissing! Fun photo shoot!

The two of them are pretty much perfect for each other!

We headed down to the water gardens and went out onto this bridge. Jayden stayed with me on the bank, while Ashley and Otis stepped out onto the bridge and admired the "waterfall" - all two feet of it :), which apparently isn't going to be part of this post - lol!

Then all of a sudden Otis dropped to one knee and took Ashley by the hand ...

... I'm sure he was asking her to marry him! (Now they were already engaged before this morning, but it never hurts to double check - lol!)

And here was Ashley's answer! I'm going to take this as a 'yes'!

Back to the hugging and celebrating.

All in all, it was an extremely engaging morning :).