One of the first things I do when I’m meeting with my couples or brides for the first time is ask them 3 questions:
1. How did you guys meet?
2. How did he or she pop the question?
3. What is the theme of your wedding? AKA Colors and/or Décor.
When I got married a mere 3.5 years ago we didn’t have Pinterest all we had Google searches and wedding blogs (very few). I had a binder of ideas and tons of photos that I had printed out. Now brides have Pinterest, if you don’t know what Pinterest is well think of it as a visual website bookmark where you can save all photos or blogs to different boards or categories. And I bet you that 99% of unmarried women between the ages of 18-40 have a wedding Pinterest board.
Well when I sat down to finally meet Molly she reminded me a lot of myself because she had that all important wedding binder that I had and carried to all my wedding meetings. So this gets me back to my original point about those 3 questions. First off I asked how Jordan and her met Jordan was the brother to a friend of hers and they always kinda knew of each other until they started dating. Second was the Proposal: Jordan and Molly head off to one of their favorite restaurants Applebee’s this is important because she told me it was their favorite restaurant… I know we all have those one place we all love that people may look at you funny for a sec mine happens to be Buffalo Wild wings…. They were celebrating their 4th anniversary together! After dinner they head to Jordan’s parents house to pick up their dogs. Molly & Jordan have two adorable mini Australia Shepard who joined us for their engagement session. So Jordan had 2 surprise for Molly one a new car & a proposal! Jordan had gotten Molly a brand new Ford Edge. He told her to get in and check it out. As she was looking at the pictures on the display screen he was standing next to her outside the car and said “Molly Marie,” she look over and he is down on one knee and asked “Will you marry me?” Of course Molly said YES! So sweet right?
After she got done telling me this story we talk more about their wedding then I got to the all important 3rd question about the theme of their wedding. Molly explained that she had always loved vintage stuff and while searching on pinterest she found a picture of 3 old doors put together as backdrop and showed me a picture of what she was talking about. So her wonderful future in-laws had been making these for her and so her theme was Rustic Door Theme for the wedding, which made me very excited. After talking more about the wedding I asked her about the engagement session. Then a brilliant idea was proposed about using the doors also for their engagement photos and BAM that is when it was decided that we would have the doors also at the engagement session.
We then decided on a location for their session at the Scatter Creek Wildlife Recreation Area in Rochester, Washington. I think this is my favorite engagement session to date! Now I am super excited for Jordan & Molly’s fall wedding later this year!
I love their rustic door theme. So neat that the bride’s in-laws helped with that, too! Their dog on the right’s expression is on POINT on the porch picture, haha! How cute! Congratulations to them (gosh and a car, too, how cool is that?)! And these are lovely images!
I am so in love with those rustic doors… they turned out amazing in the images…. and I love the ALL OF ME sign…. thinking that is going to be their wedding song…. beautiful work my dear…. beautiful…
Adorable! Love the props and the location! And I LOVE the picture on the steps with the dogs!!!
Ok – so the entire session is fantastic – but I want to say how adorable those dogs are and how great of a job you did incorporating them! Dogs are not easy to add to a session and you did a great job of getting them – not only looking – but showing some personality!
These are beautiful engagement and save the date images!
Great variety of images! I bet they are so pleased with them! I really like the serious shot in front of the white door. Nice work!
I love all of these engagement photos! So fun to have that rustic door. And all the great props! Overall beautiful engagement session!
What an adorable engagement session! I really love the props they chose. The rustic elements are all so pretty. Lovely work, Jenny!
I love that they included their dogs in their session. You did such a lovely job with this engagement session!
there is so much I love about this engagement session!! Such a beautiful engagement session
This is such a beautiful engagement session!
I love this! So romantic and vintage, beautiful work!
LOVE the location! Beautiful photos.
Very lovely engagement photos. I also love the props used in these photos. I love when family pets are included in the session because they do play a big part in our lives and are indeed apart of the family. Nice work!
What a beautiful engagement session! I love the ring on the door knob! Too cool!
This is truly a great engagement story! I love how you asked them those three questions and took your story telling into a beautiful engagement photosession …. Your engagement session is stunning and I am sure you are a very sought out Tacoma Wa wedding photographer!!
I love this! So vintage and romantic, beautiful job!
oh wow those rustic doors are on point!! love them! what a great idea – this engagement session is really great Jenny Storment!
oh wow those rustic doors are on point!! love them! what a great idea – this engagement session is really great Jenny Storment!
I LOVE the rustic door theme! So creative and gorgeous photography! Makes me want to get engaged again!
What a cute engagement session! Love that the included their furbabies!
great pictures, I love this engagement session.
This engagement session is awesome! The props, the location, the colors, those adorable dogs! The couple is pretty cute too! I really want to visit Scatter Creek Wildlife Recreation area for a session now. I can’t wait to see their wedding photos!
Such fun engagement photos! Love the rustic door theme, and the location in Tacoma!
What a beautiful couple and these images are stunning. Scatter Creek Wildlife Recreation area is the perfect backdrop and I can’t wait to see the wedding photos on the blog!
I love this engagement session!! I cant wait to see their wedding!! The Rustic door theme is amazing!
The rustic door themed engagement session is super cute! I love this whole session hard to pick a favorite.
Beautiful rustic door theme engagement…i am totally blown away with this gorgeous session…love it!!!
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