It is with immense pleasure to share this San Francisco engagement session and proposal with John & Liz! John and Liz met in December of 2011 at a Christmas party that Liz’s friends were holding at their apartment. John is the brother of one of Liz’s good friends from high school and she knew John was recently single, so Liz’s friend thought they may be a good match. Liz was in her first year as a new grad nurse working the night shift on a surgical unit, so she didn’t have a lot of time to date. One of the first things that she noticed about John was his great smile. She caught him sneaking glances of he during the night, but John didn’t have the courage to come over and talk to her yet.
I love Liz’s point of view of her proposal:
“In retrospect, I guess I should have been more suspicious since John was the one who wanted to go to San Francisco and he was the one who was planning the trip. I later found out that he had asked my dad for his blessing a few months beforehand and told him that he was going to propose to me in San Francisco. I had no idea that my parents knew this whole time!
On the morning of the day of the proposal, John had told me to wear “something nice” because he wanted to take me out to a nice dinner later that evening. I didn’t think too much of it because that morning we were going on the Alcatraz tour and we were even running late due to traffic (we almost missed the ferry!). When we were planning where we wanted to go in San Francisco, I had come across pictures of the Palace of Fine Arts and I kept telling him how beautiful it looked and how it did not look like somewhere in the United States (it looks like Europe!).
That afternoon, around 5:00 PM, we drove to the Palace of Fine Arts and were taking pictures and just taking in the scenery. We reached the part across the pond where there were actually a few couples taking their engagement photos. I tried to hold my phone up to take a selfie when a female named Catie approached us and offered to take our picture for us with my phone. She let us know that she was a photographer and she offered to take our picture with her SLR camera and she would email the photos to us. She took a few shots and then said: “John, let’s try a romantic pose”. That’s when John got down on one knee!
The whole experience was amazing and now we have gorgeous photos to help us remember that special moment!”
Enjoy a few of my favorite moments from their sweet session!
Are you interested in a San Francisco engagement session? Send me a message, I would love to work with you!!!
