Chelsea & Eddie: A Snowy Woods Engagement Session

Chelsea and Eddie are the kind of melt-your-heart, sweet to the core, hysterical, beautiful humans that make knowing them and counting yourself blessed an understatement. If you were are privy to the stories that have shaped who they are as individuals, you know how much they both deserve every happiness in the world… and now they have found that, in one another.

We had scheduled their engagement session for a few weeks from now, but the snow fell, and the woods called, and we all found ourselves blessed with an open morning schedule due to cancellations, which was filled with the most beautiful flakes. I can’t believe our schedules all just happened to align on such a surreal, gorgeous day. We are all convinced it was divinely inspired, and I think it is evident in how picturesque the day was as it unfolded. Here is a little snippet in Chelsea’s words from her blog, following their snowy engagement session on the property where they will be married:

“It was one year ago on January 12th when Eddie and I went on our first date. We had been talking for three weeks, navigating conversations, laughing at silly messages until it was too late to stay up and maintain coherency. Our first date, he shows up to my cottage with flowers in hand- my favorite ones to be exact. He didn’t know this. He had no real reason to know this and no one to ask. He looked around and decided on the flowers that most reminded him of me. Lilies. I couldn’t reach a vase and I went to get a stool. Eddie gave me a look and offered to help. “No more spending too much time trying to open a jar that was practically glued shut”, I thought. It rained on our first date and he offered to drop me at the front of the restaurant. I declined. He parked and we ran through the rain. It was more fun that way. Fast forward a year. Engaged and back at the same restaurant last night at the same table as two completely changed humans just by an act of Love. God’s Love. He has woven our stories into miraculous beauty.

I love seeing evidence of God’s hand threaded throughout their story, and I am so thrilled to make a small appearance myself, where I will surely cry giant, ugly, rolling tears as I celebrate along side them and photograph their wedding in March.

On a lighter note, this session was not only breathtakingly gorgeous, but also an incredible amount of fun!! Chelsea and Eddie are romantics, but both harbor silly personalities that play off of one another in the most amazing way, and so with her encouragement, I am also featuring a few of the “outtakes”  at the end of the blog post that made me squeel while I photographed them, and try to stifle the giggles as I edited their gallery!!

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This is the pond where they will be wed in March! I can’t wait to see the beauty that will be coming with Spring!

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Please pardon me a minute while I swoon…

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Just look at that gorgeous stone! It was Eddie’s Grandmother’s, which couldn’t be any more perfect!

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And now featuring Chelsea and Eddie… future LL Bean supermodels

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The joy that these two bring just by being together is contagious!

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And as promised, please enjoy a few hysterical outtakes, and just you TRY not to smile while you feel the joy that is written all over their faces! 

 

 

Above: Eddie needed posing tips from his future wife, who is clearly pro level!

Below: Demonstrating how she rubs his beard, while trying to maintain a straight face!

Being serious is clearly not their strong suit, and I was loving every minute!

Now it was Eddie’s turn to show Chelsea how to model, by demonstrating how to “pop her knee”

Preparing for their debut on Dancing with the Stars

…and attempting to nail the “pick her up and spin her around” request

And then getting dizzy from all of the spinning!

“Why is this not as easy as it looks!”

 

Playing a competitive game of tug-of-war… while perfecting their squat and hover game!

 

In the end, if your engagement session doesn’t end up being this fun, you are clearly doing something wrong! 😉

 

XO,

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