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Nicole and I have been best friends our ENTIRE lives. When Charles asked me to be a part of his proposal I was ecstatic!

On November 10, 2008 Charles came to my house to hide the ring in my bag. He went to Nicole's house to get ready for the "portrait". The whole time we had Nicole thinking that this session was for me since I got a new lense and have never shot a portrait on Fifth Avenue (Naples).

We started to take some portraits along Fifth Avenue and then headed to Cambier Park for a couple more photos. I told her that I wanted to take some photos of her by herself. I had Charles take my bag to "put it on the bench" behind her. While I was taking photos of Nicole, Charles was pulling out the ring. I invited Charles back into the photo. He said he had an "idea" for a photo. Nicole was at first confused then extremely happy. I was crying right along with them, but still managed to photograph some of my FAVORITE photos. After she said yes we started to walk around and take "engagement photos".

I am sooooo happy for Charles and Nicole. They are the cutest and most perfect couple I know. I mean that, they are ment for eachother in every way. I can not wait for their wedding, it will be so special!

That's AWESOME!!

aw so sweet! congrats to them

Great pictures! They are so lucky you were there to capture it happen.

Oh, that's just the coolest thing ever!

I got chills looking at the pictures after reading the story. What an awesome engagement!!!

Thanks everyone. It was the coolest thing ever! I am so happy that I could do this for them. I definitely want to do this again in the future.

Ahh! I LOVE these--how priceless. beautiful!

Soooo cuuuuute!!!

that brought a tear

ME TOOO!!! how sweet!

ahhhh that is such a cute story and a great idea for a proposal!! Thank you for sharing!

How fun! I got to do a suprise proposal a few months ago, and I think I was more nervous than the fiance The pictures look great!

That is awesome. Next question, bridesmaid or photographer

WOW I'm so glad this worked out because I plan on doing something similar with my girl in January. I've got a friend of mine that I help out with some processing from time to time when I don't have my own photo junk to work on, and I've been telling Crystal that I've been trying to get us in his schedule "because we need better couple pics" so she'll just think we're going out and getting some pics done by a friend of mine for the heck of it..what she doesn't know is that they'll be REAL engagement pics because I'm gonna pop the ring out and surprise her on the shoot. :0)

wonderful...the story and the pic's. love the last one.

Aww I love it! So sweet and genuine.

oh i would love to capture something like this!!! Great job!!

cUTEEE!!

That is SO NEAT that you got to be a part of this! You did a wonderful job capturing the moment too....love it!

I know, that's going to be the hardest thing! I would LOVE to photograph their wedding, but I also want to be a part of it. Any suggestions? Maybe hire another photographer to help out shooting the ceremony and other events. Hmmm Something I need to think about.

That is a cute story. They look like a sweet couple.

Awww, so sweet! How exciting to document the proposal like that!

So much fun! Great shots of the entire proposal.

What an awesome way to get proposal pictures!

Aw, Uh-dorable!