Maria and Andi- Engagement Session

Maria and Andi are probably two of the most likeable people we have ever met! Seriously, Maria (the Verité one) and I were instantly in love with these guys. While they are genuinely great, I think our adoration of them is at least in part due to their fantastically huge, warm, inviting smiles. I am such a sucker for a big smile. (I remember in jr. high I used to try to stretch my mouth and lips out because I was convinced if I did it enough, I would develop a Julia Roberts-like smile . . . it didn't work, btw). These guys though, they were just blessed with the real deal. 

We did their session in Golden Gate Park since it has both the Japanese Tea Garden (they have Japanese heritage) and casting pools (they have a fishing thing)! Andi is an avid fly fisher. He proposed to Maria with her ring in a special tackle box and asked her to be his "fishing partner for life"! (See, they are the cutest!)

Ariel and Jonathan, Engaged

I know I said it before, but these two are so cute! (I get all giddy over snugly couples!) We started their session at the Land's End hiking trail, and were just going to go straight from there to The Matrix Fillmore (since that's where they went on their second date and ended up making-out on a Tuesday night :)) but Ariel was telling me about her furry feline stepchild who she refuses to accept as her own- Jonathan's cat, Issac, so I convinced them to go by their place for a few pics of the happy combined family :) and then we headed over to the Matrix. 

Jonathan, along with his grandfather, own Cable Car Clothiers, one of the city's oldest and finest haberdasheries downtown, and as such Jonathan loves to get dressed up. And Ariel doesn't do such a bad job either! In fact, she kinda makes me sick- she works for Dryers and taste-tests ice cream for a living! How you can eat ice cream for a living, and look like her I don't understand, but so it goes. I just looked on enviously and took pictures.