{"id":3155,"date":"2015-01-14T13:01:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T17:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/?p=3155"},"modified":"2015-01-14T15:56:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-14T19:56:13","slug":"surprise-engagement-at-a-family-session-royal-oak-wedding-and-family-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/?p=3155","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Engagement at a Family Session! ::Royal Oak Wedding and Family Photography::"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Family sessions are fun. They give you a chance to dress up a little, share some laughs with your family, and create some wonderful memories. It makes sense too, you have a professional photographer along to capture all of it forever. When Erin contacted me, I thought I was getting into just another family photo session; but man was I wrong!<\/p>\n<p>After some back and forth about scheduling, we decided on a time and place, and all was set. But the next day, I get a phone call from her boyfriend Ted, and he talks with me about an idea he had: Since there will be just them and their two children all dressed up and with a photographer there, would I be interested in capturing his proposal to Erin at the end of the family session? Hmm&#8230;OF COURSE I would! Up until now, I&#8217;d always wanted to photograph a proposal but being mostly a wedding photographer, I don&#8217;t come into the picture until much further down the line!<\/p>\n<p>So the plan was set. And here are the photos that resulted!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"3072\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2741\" height=\"2048\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-007.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"3072\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then, Ted and I gave the &#8220;secret nod&#8221; signal to each other. And he summoned them out into the open for &#8220;one more photo..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-013.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-014.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"3072\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-016.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2741\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After all the laughs, tears, and congratulations were done, we began walking back. The two little ones ran ahead, and my heart melted when I noticed THIS happening:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"pp-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/engagement-family-017.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3072\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family sessions are fun. They give you a chance to dress up a little, share some laughs with your family, and create some wonderful memories. It makes sense too, you have a professional photographer along to capture all of it forever. When Erin contacted me, I thought I was getting into just another family photo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[32,29,273,15],"class_list":["post-3155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engagements","category-family","tag-metro-detroit-engagement-photographer","tag-metro-detroit-family-photographer","tag-michigan-surprise-engagement","tag-royal-oak-wedding-photographer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3155"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3178,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155\/revisions\/3178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcooksonphotoblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}