Engagement Pictures Photographer

May 12, 2011 · In Wedding Photos · By Allison Carenza

Christina had a plan.  Like so many other 23 year old girls, she was determined to make that plan a reality.  It went a little something like this.  Start teaching career, meet boy, marry boy, have babies, all before 25.  Well the plan didn't work out exactly as she had hoped.  So on her 25 birthday after a fun night out she was left feeling lonely and unhappy with her life, sure that she was doomed to be a spinster!  What Christina didn't realize then is that the plan was always there, but the timing was not.  So, she went on a lot of bad dates, met and liked some bad boys, but kept looking.  She knew she wanted someone that loved her for her and wasn't going to settle for less.  Well fast forward a few years and she found him.  Matt.  From the start she knew it was different, because it just felt different.  Unlike the popular book, he was definitely into her.  He called when he said he would, he took her on dates that were romantic, and he made her feel special.  Christina was protective of her heart for a little second, but I guess you can see the rest is history.

I had a hard time getting Matt to look at the camera.  I guess his attention was elsewhere.

Christina is a natural and oh so photogenic!

We took these pics in downtown Kansas City at my firehouse studio.  We also wandered around the crossroads of Kansas City for a little second,  hunting for some fierce light!

Someone please turn on the AC this picture is hot!  I think I might have told them to act like they just left a bar and are hiding from their friends in an alley nearby.

This relationship is just getting started, and isn't that what's fun about life.  Not having a plan!  I have no doubt these two have big things in their future!