Engagement season is the best! It’s an exciting time full of hope, dreams about the future, and celebration. Daniela and Eddie are newly engaged and I cannot wait to photograph their wedding this August! For their engagement session L.A. Arboretum was the perfect location…

“People always ask me were you really surprised and I always tell them. Yes, I was wearing croc flats from work and I had known about the proposal I would have been wearing nicer shoes. Eddie and I had talked about getting married and I knew he was going to do it but I never knew when. He really worked hard to keep me surprised because I had no idea. My friends were being weird but I just thought they were being strange because life but I didn’t realize that everyone was in on this surprise. All I can remember from that night is just pure happiness. Every time, I tell people the story of how he proposed I just get all jittery and happy because it was so great to say yes to my best friend and embark on a new journey and it was amazing being with all my favorite people in the world in one place.” ~ Daniela

 “I wanted Daniela’s friends and family to be there and after getting everyone’s schedule I got her friends from San Diego, best friends from high school, her family and my family to help me surprise her. I set three different tables for her to see each table had different pictures and a note of our memories. Setting up made me more nervous and anxious. I kept on telling myself, is this real? And I was really scared for Daniela’s reaction. She gets more nervous with romantic gestures but everything was perfect, the weather, the light up candles shaped in a heart at the end was perfect and I was ready for Daniela to arrive. I waited upstairs so that I can get a good view of her from above. When she arrived, my heart was beating so quickly. Once, she was there she knew the proposal was coming. I can still picture her smile as she looked at each table and read my notes. I came down and waited for her in the middle of the heart shaped candles. I had a whole speech in mind but I didn’t get to say all of it because I was so nervous. I said, I love you probably about 15 times. Her reaction to the ring was priceless, the box lights up when you open it and her face was glowing.” ~ Eddie

Daniela & Eddie’s Proposal story from the couple~ “My main focus was for Daniela to be surprised. It was months of thinking of different places and just making sure Daniela had no idea it was coming. I went back and forth to beautiful castles and gardens to taking trips but I knew that by doing that she would be completely aware that I was going to propose.