Our bride & groom planked on their engagement session. HA!

Why not, right? I mean, everyone is doing it everywhere lately :) Apart from being goofy, funny, fun, dance-freaks, and awesome to be around, our good friends Sarah & Mikey (and Dexter-dog!) met with us at Washington Park Rose Garden today. These two have been friends of ours for years and when they announced their engagement, we couldn't be more happy! It will be fun being the photographers for a party-event with many of our same friends... versus actually partying ourselves :-D Our friends The Quick & Easy Boys will be playing live at the reception and Jimmy (the lead guitar) is Mikey's best man. This will be an awesome wedding, close to our hearts. We love you two and can't wait for August!

Wedding date: August 20th 2011

Wedding venue: Edgefield

Wedding dress: JCrew

More vendors to come as more details come in, of course :)

Here is a super quick sneak peek of their session from today!

Roses and Gardens. Portland at its best.

The Rose Garden (Washington Park) is beautiful. Especially when the sky is slightly overcast and when there are hardly any people around. Last year, we visited it right after sunset, since it's so close to where MoscaPhoto lives :) and played around with our new nikon 85mm 1.4 and a 24mm 1.4 too. Just those two lenses, nothing more. Portland is so pretty! ;)

{Engagement!} Inside the Rose Garden shoot with Rachael & Matthew!

This is SO exciting!

Rachael and Matthew got engaged during a Trailblazrs' game, jumbotron and everything!

So it was only obvious to us to see if we could coordinate permission to get inside the Rose Garden, privately, to shoot their engagement session :)

Well, that's exactly what happened last night. We met up at the loading zone of the Rose Garden and were then invited in by their awesome season ticket guy, Joe.

We had two hours to walk around from the court to the seats at the very top. It was amazing!

We are not allowed to post all of the images here, unfortunately, so here is one Sneak Peek for now, while I work of editing a few more to show. We can't have any NBA logos showing, nor any advertisement banners, so there's quite a bit of editing work ahead of us :)

More to come!

{Engagement} Washington Park Rose Garden roses and light rain engagement session!

Patricia and Tim are sweethearts!

They will not be getting married here in Portland, but they did get engaged here, and at the Rose Garden to boot!

What better place to take their engagement photos but in the very place where their wedding story officially began? They'll have so many colorful and memorable images to take back with them to their family and friends in the Midwest!

The day was lovely! A light rain, umbrellas, blooming roses and some autumn leaves too...

Yay for Oregon fall weather! :)