Kelly Anne + Dave: Proposal in Fairmount Park

She didn’t even see it coming. Dave had convinced Kelly Anne a proposal was about a year away so she didn’t think much of it when they went into the city last week for lunch and then drove around parts of Philly for her to take pictures.

Kelly Anne is a burgeoning photographer; pictures are important to her. She’s the beautiful snow bunny I photographed last winter. Dave came to me knowing three things:

1) he wanted to propose
2) he wanted fabulous pictures of it
3) he wanted it to be in a beautiful place so the pictures would be that much better

We brainstormed and scouted and came up with this hidden gem of a park on Kelly Drive. This piece of Fairmount Park was absolutely perfect! The plan was this: they’d happen to drive along Kelly Drive and Dave would point out this itty park along the side and exclaim, “Oh hey, that looks like it might be good. Let’s go check it out.” So they’d park and wander towards a particular tree where Kelly Anne would happen to see this:

Then she’d turn around and see this:

After some blissful moments of hugging and kissing she’d see me:

It was awesome. Completely and totally awesome. We wandered around the park a while afterwards for some pictures of the two of them.

And sometimes Kelly Anne would realize that she just got engaged.

It was a blast.

Congratulations times infinity, you two. So in lobe! 😉

(Kelly Anne and Dave starred as Adelaide and Nathan in a local production of Guys and Dolls just a few weeks before. How great is that?)