Brandon + Lauren love to do everything together: working out, going out for walks, or even just going out to dinner! They actually met at the gym about a year and a half ago, where Brandon was a personal trainer. They caught each other’s eye, but it took a couple days for Brandon to work up the courage to go and talk to Lauren to get her number! Luckily, Lauren thought he was pretty cute, they exchanged numbers, and they’ve pretty much been together ever since!

During their engagement session, they told me about how Brandon proposed – it was pretty intricate and well-thought out!! At the beginning of the day, Brandon left a coded safe in their house, and he had Lauren figure out the code – after having a local Edmonton celebrity tweet out the clue that she needed to open it! Inside the safe was more clues to the series of dates they would have that night – including going to the human society to look at puppies (no, they didn’t get one – but they both LOVE dogs and hope to get one someday when they live somewhere that allows pets!), dinner at Lauren’s favorite sushi restaurant (where the server wrote the next clue on the bill) … then they went to the coffee shop where they had their first date.

Now – here’s where it gets really good!!! After their coffee, they went to a nearby park where two easels were set up with a bouquet of flowers. Brandon said they were going to sit in the park and paint something, but they couldn’t see each others’ paintings until we were done. When they turned their paintings around, Brandon had painted, “Marry Me” on his and got down on his knee and proposed.

All together now: awwwwww!!!!!

It’s this much effort that Brandon put into his proposal that just says volumes about their relationship!! I was super excited about getting to hang out with them in Joshua Tree for their destination engagement session, and I know their beautiful wedding next year in Mexico is going to be AMAZING!!!

Hair + Makeup by Nancy Zinzun

Ring by Gabriel and Co