{"id":32932,"date":"2019-08-10T06:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-10T10:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/?p=32932"},"modified":"2019-06-27T22:01:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T02:01:49","slug":"proposal-at-grand-floridian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/10\/proposal-at-grand-floridian\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex + Rachel : Surprise Proposal at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s so rare we get to photograph proposals- And I got to help *plan* this one, too!!! :)<\/p>\n

Alex is my best friend’s little brother. He’s an *incredible* music composer and lyricist currently living in New York (you can check out his work here<\/a>, but *my* favorite is “Hey There<\/a>,” a song he wrote for Veronica when she was pregnant with Scarlett!)<\/p>\n

I’ve only met Rachel once but she’s basically one of those rare women that are just as beautiful on the outside as they are on the inside and I basically want to be her best friend. <3<\/p>\n

It’s been my goal this year to cement a place for myself in Veronica’s family<\/a>, so when Veronica mentioned Alex wanted to propose to his stunning girlfriend, I couldn’t help but immediately blurt out that I wanted to photograph it!! Veronica was helping to plan the proposal so naturally I\u00a0 jumped in and offered my help<\/del> took over the situation! ;) Veronica and I came up with the ruse (that began in truth like most good ruses) that she would invite her family to take photos during her daughter’s 6 month old photo shoot<\/a>. That way there’s no way it’d be weird for me and Nate to be there with cameras and we could sneakily pick a photogenic spot for the proposal to take place! Veronica made sure to “insist” Rachel be dressed up for the photo session and even convinced her to get a manicure!<\/p>\n

We scouted out the week before to find somewhere that family could look on without being spotted (Alex was amazing and arranged for Rachel’s parents to be there- She had noooo idea!) So after we took photos of Alice, Alex arrived with his parents and his girlfriend. Veronica was feeding Alice a bottle and casually mentioned that we should take them out for a few couple photos while they wait. :)<\/p>\n

We brought them to our favorite patio and the family secretly watched from the windows behind us. I started off with some simple portraits while I gave everyone time to shuffle in! Once I got the thumbs up, I told Alex to tell Rachel how much he loves her hoping and praying he’d take the hint that it was time to take a knee! The message was received and *I* think it went absolutely perfectly- Rachel had no idea it was coming! :)<\/p>\n

Starting off with my favorite photo of them, which happens to be in their last few seconds of ever being girlfriend and boyfriend. <3<\/p>\n

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I believe this was Rachel saying something along the lines of “How DARE you! You lied to me!”<\/p>\n

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One of my most most favorites. <3<\/p>\n

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Rachel’s sweet parents coming out to surprise their daughter- I think we were all crying at this point! <3<\/p>\n

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One with Alice, our lil’ sneaky scapegoat. <3<\/p>\n

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With their mamas. <3 <3<\/p>\n

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Alex and Rachel, we love y’all so so much- Come back and visit again sooooooon! <3<\/p>\n

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It’s so rare we get to photograph proposals- And I got to help *plan* this one, too!!! :) Alex is my best friend’s little brother. He’s an *incredible* music composer and lyricist currently living in New York (you can check out his work here, but *my* favorite is “Hey There,” a song he wrote for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,6,7],"tags":[1183,1151,926,44,119],"class_list":{"0":"post-32932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-disney","8":"category-engagements","9":"category-personal","10":"category-portraits","11":"tag-alex-sage-oyen","12":"tag-aueroots","13":"tag-feature","14":"tag-grand-floridian","15":"tag-proposal","16":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32932"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32970,"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32932\/revisions\/32970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootweddings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}