Every now and then I get an email from one of you fabulous blog readers that completely makes my day and reminds me why I do what I do. I still have the email saved that I received from Andrea nearly a year ago, where she just wanted to say hi and how much she was enjoying the blog, and hoped one day to be on the blog herself with her boyfriend Mike! Well these days she’s no longer referring to him as her boyfriend, but her FIANCE! I was so thrilled when I got that next email from her saying that Mike had popped the question and they were engaged! I usually have a pretty strict policy about not booking weddings more than a year out, but I was MORE than happy to make an exception for these two, as I knew right then that there is nowhere else I’d rather be than with Andrea and Mike next June 30th!
While we had a few weather issues with previously scheduled dates, we finally ended up with a gorgeous sunny evening for their engagement session around their college campus, James Madison University in Harrisonburg! Andrea is just as sweet as she came across in that initial email a year ago, and I was so excited to finally get her and Mike in front of my camera! Andrea and Mike, we’re just going to have to find another reason to hang out because I don’t think I can go a full year without seeing you guys before the wedding, okay? ooookay! :0) Enjoy some of my favorites from our time together!
We started things off around the main part of campus with some gorgeous early evening light: Andrea has this print framed in their house which i LOVE: and asked if we could recreate it! of course I was more than happy to oblige :0) such a pretty campus! ah! love this one! :0) then we headed over to the JMU arboretum which is SO gorgeous! love the one on the right! definitely a favorite :0) my faaaaavorite! huge canvas? i think YES! and I’ll end with oooone more of my favorites :0) Happy Friday!! :0)
Awesome pictures. I personally like the one with the umbrellas best! I look forward to that date next year!
Mike, I think the pictures turned out great. I love the black and white photos.
These photos are beautiful! I adore the umbrella ones, and the b&w bridge picture as well. And pretty much all of them!
Great Pics..I love the black & Whites…
Beautiful! So happy for both of you. Congratulations.
What a beautiful couple and what gorgeous photos! Congratulations!
Andrea, these are the greatest pictures in the history of the world! Congratulations to you and Mike! :)
It’s hard to pick a favorite, they are all just so great!
All the pictures are beautiful. I absolutely love the umbrella shots. What a great idea!!
congrats guys!!! hope all is well pics look great. I think the photographer is the same one who did my bros wedding and they loved the pics they got!!!
love them!
These photos are absolutely beautiful! So happy for you guys!! I love the recreated painting! Such a cute idea :)
Great pics
The pictures are great! My favorite is the B&W on the bridge. You guys picked a great photographer with an excellent eye.
These pictures are beautiful! Props for doing them at JMU. Congratulations again and all the best!!
Such great pictures! Love that they were taken at JMU. Very beautiful! Congrats Mike and Andrea
These are all so beautiful!!! I love the umbrella remake pictures and also all the black and white pictures.
these are just soooo precious!
Happiness is being in love as shown in your pictures!Congratulations!
So happy for you! Love all the pictures!!!
Love all the wood/tree shots – those are awesome.
awwwww
You guys are too cute! love the pictures!
The pics are great, I love that they are at JMU!
These look Awesome! I am so excited for you two :)
Andrea…your pictures are stunning! I am so happy for you both!
Congratulations to you both, the pictures look amazing! I can’t wait to see how the wedding photos come out!
Good luck picking from these shots –they’re ALL great. Congrats!!!
They are all amazing…I cant wait to see the rest! Thank you jessi
The pictures are gorgeous! Andrea, you and Mike look so happy!
Anna Lynn
Beautiful! I love the lighting in the nature shots. I also really like how the close-ups allow you to see the way they look into eachothers eyes.
Oh my goodness Drea!!! These are BEAUTIFUL photos! I love the recreation photos and the one with the heel-pop. You two look so happy and in love!! I canNOT wait to see you two on your wedding day!!!!
Ah!! These are so beautiful!!! I think my favorite is the one on the quad with the umbrellas. Too cute! So happy for you guys!!
These pictures look great. You both look so happy. Congratulations :)
Love you drea n mike!! Best wishes and amazing photos!!!
Great pictures Michael!! You two are such a cute couple. I really like the willow tree pics as well as the black & white ones and the umbrella pictures just take the cake! Okay,okay I like them all and wish you all happiness in the years to come
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Absolutely gorgeous photographs! I have been waiting for the day this pictures would arrive and now I’m even more excited for the big day (as if I couldn’t already be excited enough)! The photos are stunning and I especially love the umbrella photos! You absolutely captured their spirit and love! =)
I am obsessed with you blog (I used to live with Dre last year and she put me on to your site!) and I have been waiting for the day to come that she and Mike were featured on here!!! My favorite by far is the mini chalkboard pic, the colors are amazing. So happy for my friends! And I think the couple of failed engagement pic dates were well worth it to get these!
~Liz Knight
looooove these pics!
these are amazing, you did a fantastic job!!!
Love these pics Andrea! I love that you found the purple umbrellas!
These pictures are amazing! I love them and everything about them! Great job! Beautiful! I express how awesome they are! Love the site and can’t wait for the wedding next year!
Mike and Dre, these pictures are absolutely stunning! I’m excited to share your special day with both of you!!
Very nice pictures, the purple umbrella was a very nice idea. I would love for this photographer to do my pictures.
These pictures are absolutely wonderful! You can really tell when the photgrapher has created a bond with the people being photographed…and the campus looks amazing! I remember when Dre bought the umbrella pic, and re-creating it was such a great idea! Dre and Mike – you two look adorable and sooooo in love! Very happy for you two :) xoxoxo, Steph
These pictures are gorgeous!! I especially love the umbrella ones and the one on the bridge. Great shots and a beautiful couple :)
love them! I think the willow tree ones are my favorite, the light is gorgeous. But I also have always liked that JMU print and it’s awesome that you remade it! beautiful!
Love, love, love these! Love the umbrella shots! How exciting!!!!
Love the black the white pictures.
Call me a stalker, but I checked your website first thing this morning haha. I told you I would be anxious to see them! They look AMAZING and I’m glad the evidence of heat and gnats didn’t show up in the pictures :D Mike and I will have to pay you a little visit during the year and go out to one of those awesome restaurants near you :) Thank you, again!