Sarah and Andrew's Lakeside Engagements

We are so excited to get to share Sarah and Andrew's engagement session with you! This particular engagement shoot is very special to us, as it is our first styled engagement shoot. Earlier this year, we sat and talked about how we wanted to be able to offer something really unique and personal to our couples who were wanting something a little different than just a normal engagement shoot. With that in mind, we started offering the option of a 'styled engagement shoot' where we hire an event stylist and work with the couple to create a one-of-a-kind, unique, and highly styled engagement session that truly reflects their style.

We were tickled pink when Sarah and Andrew took us up on our offer and added on a styled engagement session when they chose us as their wedding photographers. Months of preparation, wardrobe consultations, moodboards, meetings with the stylist, trips to the location... all culminated with 2 loaded Suburbans driving down 30 minutes worth of dirt roads to this serene and shady lake on their family ranch.

Sarah and Andrew love spending time together in the outdoors on their ranch. One of their first dates was at this very lake, and many of their favorite memories are spent hunting and fishing right in the same spot they chose for their engagements.

Without further adieu, here are some of our favorite photos from the evening we spent with Sarah and Andrew for their styled engagement shoot!

Our 'lead off picture' is one of our all time favorites we've taken of the beautiful Sarah, looking flawless in her floppy sunhat with a fishing lure pin.

Sometimes a canoe by the lake is the perfect place to share a few laughs with the one you love.

The plan was for Sarah and Andrew to catch their fish and cook them... lucky for us the fish were biting!

Chef Andrew prepared the fish in a way that looks ready for the cover of Williams-Sonoma!

After the food was cooked, Sarah and Andrew headed over to the shady area underneath one of the big trees by the lake for a picnic table dinner date.

The official 'title' of our shoot when we were planning the entire process was "great catch."

After threatening rain all day, we had about 5 minutes of glorious sunset over the lake.

After dinner, it was back to the campfire for S'mores.

At dusk, Sarah and Andrew sat by the lake and read love letters that they had written earlier in the day to each other. All of us nosy folks standing nearby were trying not to cry. It was so sweet!

Sarah and Andrew, thank you for taking this leap of faith with us and letting our creativity shine based off of your love story! We had an amazing time planning the whole thing with you and are so excited for you to have these photos that are so unique to you!