A couple of months ago Kim + Phil Photography approached me about helping with a stylized engagement shoot. We talked about a lot of different theme ideas and ended up with a very real theme… “Petrel & Jacob”. Petrel and Jacob are getting married on July 17th, 2010 in California and have a story that was perfect to tell through the images of a stylized shoot. [Every couple has a story and why not add a little something extra to your engagement session?]

Petrel owns The Wedding Cottage in Beaverton, Oregon [A great place to find invitations of all price points and everything wedding, except the dress!] and last November I was helping out at the store. When there weren’t clients in the store, all Petrel and I would talk about was our boyfriends and our hopes of a “soon” proposal. While I’m still waiting for “soon”, Jacob popped the question on the perfect date! I wouldn’t want to forget details of their proposal so I won’t go into too much detail, but the location that we chose to do the engagement session, Wallace Park, was the very place Jacob proposed! It is, also, one of their favorite places to spend a day off playing tennis! Jacob had made a book called “The Story of Petrel and Jacob” that he used in his proposal! We put together a picnic where they ate peanut butter and jelly sandwiches [One of their favorite snacks! Their initials are “P” and “J”, and they joke about naming their first child a “B”, so they’ll be “PB&J”!], Saint Cupcake‘s [One of their favorite places to go!], champagne [Who doesn’t love bubbly!?], the calendar necklace [Jacob got this for Petrel to capture their wedding date!], The Team Jacob Shirt [A team that Petrel is always a part of! [A gift from Jacob! This guy is good!]], the dry erase board [Petrel and Jacob often write notes to each other on this board]. We added in a few items, but most of the major pieces represent Petrel and Jacob!

A huge thank you to:
Petrel & Jacob for being our theme! : )
Kim+Phil Photography for the beautiful photos!
Prost to the Host for the fun poms!
Face Body Beauty for doing Petrel’s gorgeous hair and make up!

Enjoy the photos!

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If you’d like help stylizing your engagement or other photo shoot, please contact us! We’d love to help you!

Cheers,

Mandi, Rachelle and the Champagne team