Catherine & Anthony Engagement

Catherine and Anthony are native to South Africa. Catherine has been living here in the states for the past two years, being Au Pair extrordinare to my sister and her two little girls. We've spent many family vacations together and she is at every holiday gathering. In short, she feels like a permanent fixture around here but she is returning to South Africa at the end of next week.

Her boyfriend came to visit the states over Christmas, and did he have a surprise for Catherine! An engagement ring! They are over the top excited to be starting a new journey in life together. I have to selfishly admit that we will miss Catherine terribly. She has become a trusted friend, Mommy mentor (she doesn't even have kids yet) and regular hang for me because we always get the kids together. Luckily we all feel as great about Anthony as her biological parents do. He actually asked for their blessing before coming.

So, we had to do their engagement shoot ASAP! It was a chilly day and these guys were willing to hang out and just shoot like crazy. Anthony knows a thing or two about photography and Catherine has a future in Art Direction (or anything else she fancies for that matter). They were a blast to work with and it was a nice way to get to know Anthony and to spend what little time we have left together before Catherine departs.

They have not set the date for their wedding yet, but a trip to South Africa in the future is not out of the question. I was born with the travel bug.

I'm sending blessings and all my love to both these guys. I know that they will be very happy together. I'm just not looking forward to the final goodbye, I'm not great with that, but how lucky am I to have met new friends from the other side of the world that sincerely touched my life.

Here are a few images from our day!