Kirsten & Adam | Engagement

Kirsten and Adam are two fantastic people and two people I can call my friends. I have known Kirsten since the beginning of high school. I still have a vivid memory of her sitting in class with her cute glasses wearing a hoodie that said: “whatever it is, I didn’t do it” haha remember that hoodie!? She was one of the first girls to talk to me in grade 8 and I really appreciated it. She has always been a caring person who loves to have fun.

When we were in grade 12, something exciting happened. Kirsten was set up on a blind date. I don’t remember too much about this happening at the time, but I do remember Kirsten being nervous about the date. Then a few weeks later she was super happy and talking to all us girls about this awesome guy she met! If you haven’t guessed yet, that blind date was with Adam. Adam’s aunt goes to Kirsten’s church and she decided to do a little match-making. Kirsten and Adam had met at Starbucks for their blind date and talked non-stop until they got kicked out 4 hours later!

After 3 years of being together, having romantic dates in the rain in Armstrong, Adam flying Kirsten in a plane (Kirsten is terrified of flying, but she set the date up for him), and love letters written back and forth to each other – Adam decided Kirsten was the one. Now to find the right time to propose…this is how Kirsten described the proposal: “Adam proposed on March 3rd, 2012 on Seymour Mountain while we were snow-shoeing. He had been told he wasn’t allowed to do it on Cypress Mountain like his dad and brother-in-law. He picked me up in the morning and we stopped to get a cinnamon bun (our favourite!!) and then we headed up the mountain. I was pretty sure of what was happening so as we were going up I kept sizing him up trying to figure out where the ring was! After awhile we were both pretty exhausted, so Adam walked off the trail onto a little bluff of snow. We sat and he began pulling a bunch of random things out of his backpack like a giant pair of gloves that were his uncles! Then he told me he even brought a book! As he pulled it out, wrapped in a pillow case, I started teasing him about bringing a book snowshoeing. He told me it was wrapped because he didn’t want to ruin it. I pulled out a book written by him entitled, “A fairytale…” It was a story about how we met and how our friendship grew into love, accompanied by pictures of our adventures over the years. He ended it with verses from the love chapter in 1 Corinthians 13. His somewhat awkward attempt to get UP onto 1 knee while in snowshoes drew a little giggle from between my tears. He then pulled the box from inside his coat pocket and asked me to marry him!! I managed to get out a, “mhmm!” and that was it; we were engaged!! On the way back down the trail I stopped him to show him pictures of ideas for the wedding I had saved on my cell phone and also to tell him that I wasn’t sure if I had actually said yes when he asked, but if I hadn’t, I was saying, “yes!” now. We had a quick tuna Subway lunch in the Jeep – another of our favourites! As we were pulling out of the parking lot, Adam pressed play on the CD player and the song, “It Is You I Have Loved” began to play. I had talked about having this as my aisle song and so it was just the cherry on top! 🙂 “

Here is a photo of them after the proposal (thank you Kirsten for letting me use this): 

When asked “what do you love most about your fiance?” Adam answered:  “What I love most about Kirsten is the fact that she has chosen to spend the rest of her life with me. Kirsten is the most beautiful, caring, understanding, forgiving (the list could go on and on) girl I know, and she has picked me! Kirsten is just so perfect for me in every way and I feel blessed and honoured to be able to shortly call her my wife.” (AWW!) Kirsten answered: “What I love most about Adam is that right from the beginning he has been my best friend and then some. No matter what, he is always there for me; the good times, hard times, goofy times, intimate times, he’s always been the one I want to experience things with. He never ceases to amaze me with his patience and his giant heart. I am so blessed to be looking at the rest of my life with him by my side. God could not have placed a more perfect man for me in my life!” (double AWW!) I just love these two.

On to their engagement session! We went to a couple places in White Rock, which I just adored. I had been wanting to shoot at the semiahmoo library for quite some time because it is just such a cool building! It’s a vertical garden, complete with mini hoses/lines that spray the plants every now and then haha.

Models much!?

Another brenizer, which I am quite proud of! It turned out even cooler than I imagined!

Hehehe I love their laughter!

We went to Stewart Farms for the rest of these photos. I am definitely coming back there, it had so many great areas for photos.

What a gorgeous couple right!?

He loves me, he loves me not…

…he loves her 😛

I brought out my polaroid again!

Cinnamon buns, just like the day Adam proposed 🙂

The book Adam made for Kirsten about their fairytale that he gave to her when he proposed:

LOVED the sunset, what a beautiful day. Thank you SO much Kirsten and Adam for being so wonderful!

And a BIG thank you to Faith Sexton for assisting me on this shoot! You rock girl.