Photographing and hanging out with these two was like meeting up with familiar old friends. From the first time Allison emailed me and told me about AJ and their rescue dogs Percy and Ruby, I knew that we would be friends. We are so thankful that this amazing couple found us and it’s a really cool story how they did. Allison is in grad school in Virginia, and AJ lives and works in Atlanta, so they are doing the long distance thing, which Evan and I are very familiar with. Well they started doing wedding planning and talking photographers and decided to each do their own research and see who they wanted to check out. When their homework was complete, they each had a photographer they loved, and it was us! How cool that they both independently chose Evan and I out of all the hundreds of photographers in Tampa Bay. It was just meant to be. Here are a few fun facts about these two:

*Their Shepard mixes, Percy & Ruby, are actually brother and sister from the same litter.

*Allison & AJ met years ago at a summer camp in Florida.

*After their wedding next May, they plan on starting their life together in Atlanta, with the pups reunited :)

Hearing about how they met at a summer camp, we had to find a similar vibe for a woodsy engagement session with their dogs of course. I love this park, that was a brand new location to us! I also just love Florida and how you can get such a variety in our area. And because Allison and AJ were so easy to get along with they had a million amazing photos to choose from. Here are my favorites.

You guys, we cannot wait until May 2015! We quite seriously, need to hang out before then though ;)