Falls Park Proposal | Miah and Stone

Miah and Stone have been together since MIDDLE SCHOOL, and now they’re engaged!

A few years after I did Stone’s high school senior portraits, Stone and I met up in downtown Greenville to make a plan for him to propose to Miah. We ended up choosing a spot right in front of the Reedy River Falls, below the Liberty Bridge. There were a ton of people walking around on that Saturday, so we decided to choose a weekday, and set the date for just two days later. The date was close enough for us to see the hourly weather forecast, which was about 80 degrees and partly cloudy—about as nice as you can ask for in July.

When I arrived to the spot we chose, I texted Stone to tell him there was another photo session happening in that spot, so he asked Miah if he could show her a different spot. By the time they came back around, most of the people had cleared away, so Stone walked her right to where the prettiest view was and asked her to marry him. I was sitting on a bench right there and got it all on camera!

We spent the next half hour or so walking through downtown Greenville and taking photos in our favorite spots. There was a performance of Othello happening not too far away, so we got to hear bits and pieces of that during the session. It was a beautiful evening and we couldn’t have asked for better weather in July.

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Proposal in Downtown Greenville | Bree and Joe

Joe had a free night at a hotel that he needed to use before the end of the year. He and Bree chose Greenville because they’d heard great things about it, but had never been there and didn’t know much about it. Little did Bree know that Joe was planning something big for that weekend!

Joe and I talked a few weeks before to plan the proposal. We decided he would pick a restaurant in downtown Greenville that they could walk to from the hotel, and he would pick a spot along the way to propose to Bree. I sent Joe some photos of other engagement sessions I had done in Falls Park, and he chose the Wyche Pavilion so it would be a safe place in case it started raining. It was right across the river from Halls Chophouse, where they had chosen to eat dinner—Joe had just told Bree that the reservation was earlier than it really was. 

I got to the Wyche Pavilion early so I could make sure nothing was happening there and I could send Joe a photo of my point of view. They ended up on the other side of Falls Park, where they got to see all the other cool parts of downtown, and even saw another couple get engaged! Eventually, I saw them walk into the pavilion. Joe waved to me when Bree wasn’t looking, and he got down on one knee. 

One thing I love about proposals is that the photos afterwards are just so full of pure happiness. The annual Christmas parade was starting soon, and we got to take some photos with the gorgeous Christmas tree in front of the Westin Poinsett. I’m a little obsessed with Bree’s ring—she had sent Joe a photo a while back of a ring she wanted, which had a diamond as the center stone and an emerald on each side. Bree said the emerald is the birth stone for both of them, so her ring represents the two of them. 

Check out a few of my favorites from Bree and Joe’s sweet proposal in downtown Greenville! 

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Falls Park Engagement Photos | Lindsey and Dan

When Lindsey and Dan were visiting family in western Michigan, they went for a boat ride on the lake. While they were in the boat, Lindsey saw some of their family members holding up signs with one word on each of them, so when they all stood together, it said “Will you marry me?” Next summer, they’ll be saying “I do” at the same place where Lindsey said “yes!”

Lindsey and Dan are about to move back to the Midwest, so they wanted their engagement photos to show the iconic parts of the place that’s become a significant part of their story, so we went to downtown Greenville. Falls Park had a lot to offer, from the iconic Liberty Bridge overlooking the Reedy River Falls to places that look more like a little garden. There’s the “root tree” and the Wyche Pavilion, which we didn’t know until later used to be the original Duke’s Mayonnaise factory! And of course, the “water wall” behind the Peace Center had that gorgeous glow on it as the sun went down. We also gushed over all the cute dogs that were walking around the park that day.  We were so lucky to have a perfect sunny day with temperatures in the 60s! A few trees had started to turn yellow, and the golden hour light shined through them so beautifully. I loved how Lindsey’s pretty green dress looked in front of them!  Towards the end of the session, we were standing at the top of the stairs with a view of the river and the buildings as the sun went down, putting a perfect glow on them as they put their arms around each other.

Check out a few of my favorites from Lindsey and Dan’s session!

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Downtown Greenville Star Wars Engagement | Madison and Clay

Madison and Clay met when they were art students at Shawnee State University in Ohio. After graduation, they moved down to Columbia, South Carolina, near Clay’s family. One night, Clay and Madison were sitting on the couch, and Clay asked Madison if one of the couch cushions felt weird.  Madison felt it and pulled out a ring box.

Clay has been a lifelong Star Wars fan. He builds and sells custom replicas of different characters’ light sabers, complete with different colors and sound effects when they hit things. I was so excited when Madison told me they wanted to include them in their engagement photos! Clay explained to me how each Jedi builds their own, so the hilt of every light saber is different. He plans to build a special one just for Madison to have for their wedding day.

Setting up a ring shot with a light saber had the COOLEST sound effects of any ring shot! Madison and Clay coordinated their outfits so Clay would wear a Millennium Falcon shirt and Madison would have Millennium Falcon earrings. They didn’t plan for the light sabers to coordinate with their outfits, but they did anyway. Clay asked if we could go over to the spot in Falls Park with the smaller waterfall, where he could stand on “the higher ground” like the standoff at the end of Revenge of the Sith. He also wanted a pose similar to the one Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher did for a promo poster.

We initially planned to have the session in Falls Park when the trees were in full bloom, but the spring of 2020 had other plans for us. When I heard Falls Park was closed, I started thinking of similar locations, and it dawned on me that the pavilion at Cancer Survivors Park could look really cool with the light sabers. Even though we had to postpone the session anyway as things got crazier, we still spent a few minutes at Cancer Survivors Park once it got dark, and it looked just as cool as we thought it would!

Check out some of my favorites from Madison and Clay’s session! You can see more of Clay’s light sabers here.

Update:

Click below for Madison and Clay’s Star Wars wedding photos!

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