When couples reach out to us about helping with a couples session, engagement session, or wedding, we always want to meet up and chat first. Even after we have met we have questionnaires too, because, well, we love to get to know the people we photograph. I'm a firm believer that getting to know people at least a little bit helps capture their personality in photos, and after all, we do say our words are, "radiant, lively, and real." Plus, it's just really neat to hear people's stories!
After every interaction with Jess + Steve, I couldn't stop talking about how much I adore them, their personalities, and their stories. And the fact that we both are fans of silly salt + pepper shakers. They're just those special kinds of people that you feel like you can talk to about anything, the people you can have honest, good conversations with that could just go on for hours. Even with her writing, in the answers to the questionnaires, Jess could make me laugh out loud because she writes with the same tone she speaks in as if you can hear her speaking and aren't just reading her writing.
So it makes complete sense that amazing people like Jess + Steve have a great love story too.
They met at a Jimmy Eat World Concert... Well, not really, but they COULD have met at a concert. They had a lot of close misses, where they were both at the same concert, but just didn't cross paths yet.
After they had met and had been dating for a while, Steve would tell Jess that when he proposed he would jump out of a hot-air balloon with fireworks. While that's not exactly what happened, it's close... How Steve really proposed to Jess is actually even cooler.
Steve made a 7-level video game based where the levels were based on different moments in our relationship. In the end, his character jumped out of a hot air balloon, with fireworks and the character proposed and so did he.