Dan and I had hiked the Raven Rock Trail at Keowee Toxaway State Park back in February. We were looking for a lesser known trail with a pretty view. When we got to the overlook, I immediately asked why more people don’t post pictures from there. Well, you can imagine how happy I was when Connor told me that’s where he planned to propose to Jess!
Jess and Connor had been friends since high school, eventually becoming a couple. They share a love for the outdoors and have hiked some really cool places together. Eventually, Jess gave Connor a ring she had fallen in love with years before, holding onto it until she knew she found the person she wanted to be with for the rest of her life. When Connor and Jess were spending the week at Lake Keowee, Connor suggested hiking the Raven Rock Trail, a place he loved to visit growing up.
As Connor and Jess made their way through the trail, there were bags hanging from the trees. Each bag had a gold bow, a rose, and a scrapbook page with pictures of them together. Once they reached the overlook, there was a picnic set up with wine, cheese, and pepper jelly. There was a scrapbook on the picnic blanket for all the pages to go into. Around the wine bottle was a necklace chain with the stone from the ring Jess had given Connor. After Connor put it around Jess’s neck, he proposed to her with the ring with a new stone in it. She says she was so overwhelmed that she couldn’t even remember whether she said yes, so Connor popped the question again a minute later so she could answer. Not only was this a beautiful view of the lake at golden hour, there was literally nobody else on the trail the entire time, making this such an intimate proposal. Their first “congratulations” came from a boat horn down below!
Shoutout to Connor’s brother and brother’s fiancée for setting up everything beforehand and for hiking the first half of the trail with me!
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