When I saw Kirk and Kristine coming up the driveway to Graeme Park, I got SO excited because this was my first time meeting them in person! I know I say it all the time, but when I’ve been emailing with my couples for SO long, giving them a big hug at their engagement sessions is simply the best! AND these two love country music just like me!! I knew we were going to get along so well from the moment I received their inquiry!

Kirk and Kristine’s spring engagement session felt more like winter due to the windy, cold weather we’ve been having this month – the sun was shining but it was SO cold!! We couldn’t believe it!

Even though the weather wasn’t as warm as we would have hoped, these two didn’t complain one bit! I felt so bad because I was wearing my winter gloves, coat and scarf while Kristine was wearing a dress! They were seriously the BEST! We took breaks in between the huge gusts of wind, but it was SO worth it!

Kirk had shared with me that they aren’t great picture takers, but I didn’t believe him one bit! They were AMAZING, and I think they look like models!

Little did Kristine know that she’d meet her future husband, Kirk, during her freshman year of high school – they’ve been together ever since, and their proposal is SO incredible! Kristine brought along Kirk’s wrestling jacket to be included in some photos, as well, and I thought it was so sweet that she brought the jacket because it meant so much to them!

These high school sweethearts absolutely made me melt the way that they would interact with each other during their entire engagement session; Kirk absolutely adores Kristine!!

Their session ended with the most perfect sunset! These two are getting married this summer at the Moonstone Manor, and I’M BEYOND EXCITED!

As Told by Kristine

How They Met

“Well, Kirk and I are both 29 years old now but we actually met when we were freshmen in high school. I had just moved to the town and was sooo nervous to start the school year. I was coming from Philadelphia, which was a little different from the small town I moved to. EVERYONE KNOWS EVERYONE! Luckily, my cousin went to the high school and on my first day she walked me to my homeroom class and when we got there she yelled out to a boy wearing a big cowboy hat with a bright orange and white striped polo being a class clown and told him to look after me. That boy was my future husband! I sat on the opposite side of the table that day in Art class but he eventually won me over and we dated for most of our high school years.”

The Proposal

“This is actually a funny story! He had a whole different plan on how to propose to me but things changed when we won a trip to Puerto Vallarta during a silent auction at a charity event. Little did I know that he had asked my parents for their permission months prior and decided to change up the location once we had won the trip. Pretty early on in the trip we went to a restaurant in town and ended up getting food poisoning. Soo our romantic trip ended up being us taking care of each other for half the week. But that is what they mean for “ better or for worse” right !?! Luckily, we both were feeling better on the night that he actually planned on proposing! I had an inkling that THIS MIGHT BE THE TIME before we had left for our trip  but had given up the thought after the first night! We actually made friends with locals at the resort and he had spilled the beans to them before he proposed and arranged for them to meet us after before they left for home! But on that night it started to lightly rain and he had to strongly convince me to walk out to the beach in the rain :/ We get out to the beach and sat under the cabana just looking at the stars and talking for a while. During that time, a family arrived at the resort late at night and they wanted to take a dip in the ocean and that was not allowed so security ended up coming to take them out since it was dark out and dangerous!! If you can imagine that scene going on in the background… I eventually decided that we should go back into the resort and as I was leaving (pretty quickly because it was raining) Kirk yelled out to me and when I turned back around he was on his knee and I was totally surprised! He told me after that it wasn’t the ideal moment cause of everything that was going on but he couldn’t wait any longer!!  We are little goofy so it became a funny story that we could tell! After I said YES ..He took me out to where they were playing music at the resort and once it closed down and it was just us, he had them play a Garth Brooks song ( My favorite country artist) and we danced… and we hopefully we will always continue to dance. ☺”