Kim & Brian | Door County, Wisconsin Engagement - Part I

November 29, 2010

WOW! Is all I can say about this engagement session. It was the engagement sessions of all engagement sessions! A little back-story. So, I was up in Milwaukee in June to second shoot a wedding with the fabulous Molly of Mthreestudio. We were strolling around and I asked her, “What is your dream/favorite location to shoot in Wisconsin?”. She answered, hands down, “Door County”. A beautiful area between Lake Michigan & Green Bay with farms & apple orchards - OMG. Sounds dreamy! Just say farms and I’m there! Literally, within 5 minutes of this discussion, I was waiting for Molly to make her purchase and while I waited, I checked my email and there was an email from one of my clients about doing a “destination” engagement session. Wow, destination - awesome! Since my second love is traveling, I was really excited! Furiously scrolling down the email, all I could think was “destination, destination, destination”! But, as I got further down, I saw this, “…and we want to do the engagement session at a special place to me and my family…Door County.” ARE YOU KIDDING?! Literally 5 minutes after talking about Door County, I have a pending engagement session scheduled there! Wow!

So, needless to say, I was really excited about the session & the trip up to Door County. The best part was, the session was going to take place during the fall festival when all the apples are harvested and the trees are at peak fall color. There were so many great locations to choose from, so we ended up shooting for two days at several locations. The first location was a rock beach close to the bride’s grandparent’s house. She said that their family & the kids always came down to this beach to swim during the summer and play on the rocks. They would also go “rock-picking” and bring rocks back to the house and paint them on every trip up to Door County. So, we went to the rock beach for Part I of their session and Kim & Brian painted rocks with their wedding date - so cute!