Arley + Lou: Upcoming E-Session

This coming weekend, we'll be working with a lovely engaged couple - Arley and Lou - for their engagement session. We can't wait to meet them, especially after they shared their love story with us. We are now sharing their love story here with their permission, of course!

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"My name is Arley and my fiance's name is Lou. We live in the Carmel, NY. He is a correctional officer and I am a dental assistant/ professional face painter/ balloon sculptor (a.k.a., a clown without the big shoes...LOL).

"We met November 16, 2009. It was a set up by our two friends. Funny thing was...is that I didn't want to meet anyone at that time. In the end of October, my friend told me I had to at least talk to Lou because he was perfect for me. Even if not for that, it would be good for me to at least make some new friends. My girlfriend and I decided to go up to Boston to help me get out a little, and that whole trip all I did was talk and text with Lou. I couldn't believe that the entire trip, I was mainly looking down at my phone walking around Boston. When my girlfriend and I got back from Boston, we had a meet-up. She and I made meatballs and pasta, and invited the 'boys' over. It was instant. I still remember him smiling as he first entered my friend's door, all red in the face. It was love at first sight.

"He is my best friend and we couldn't be happier. We got engaged in Long Beach Island, NJ in June of 2010 while visiting my grandparents (they live there and I have been going there since I was a baby). We were given his great-grandmother's ring. For our wedding, we will also have my great-grandmother's wedding band.

"I had no idea that he was going to propose. A tradition in my family is that when you go to the beach, when you first get there, even before you unpack, you have to go say hello to the ocean. So that's exactly what we did. It was dark and the sand wasn't smooth at all! It was windy and cold. All I did was want to go back to the house. He kept insisting, 'Let's go for a walk...ohh, but we just got here...why don't we sit on the bench?' So I said 'ok... let's go sit down before I twist my ankle.' We sat down, and then he kneeled down. It was crazy...all we did was smile and cry. It was one of the happiest moments of my life, yet I can barely remember what we even said. All I remember is his face, and him opening that big red box, and my eyes tearing up. Since then it has been changing our date, place and time of our wedding. Finally, we have a date, place and everything all lined up!"

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Coming soon...photos from their engagement session!