I always love shooting in Bloomington – especially on campus. It’s so gorgeous! Mark and Kristain are both IU grads and will be getting married in Bloomington in July.

I knew Mark from high school and a couple of month ago I did a contest on Facebook for the best engagement story with the winner recieving a free session. Before he had even sent me the story he informed me that they would win. Well….. he was right!  Here is the story (as told by Kristain) that got them the win. I’m a sucker for IU stories….and the fact that I knew who John was from shooting a previous session at Assembly Hall made it even better.

“I had bought tickets for the IU basketball game for Mark’s birthday. He has a friend at work who’s dad (John) works at Assembly Hall and said that he would give us a tour of Assembly Hall and the new practice facility before the game to go along with Mark’s birthday too. We were both so excited because we love our Hoosiers! When we got to Assembly, John showed us around the facility and asked us if we wanted to go down to the court since the players were done practicing. Of course we said yes! He then offered to take pictures of us in the middle of the court. He snapped a few pictures then I looked over at mark to ask him if we should have him take an up and down picture so we could get the IU sign in. About that time he started reaching in his pocket and kneeling down. My heart started pounding, I started to tear up.. Happy tears 🙂 He asked me to marry him and i said YES!! Turns out he had the tour set up just for that the whole time and John was in on it. I thought it was such a perfect idea because we met in Bloomington at IU and it took us back to where we started.
Hope you enjoy it like I did.  :-)”

Congrats to you guys!

My favorite one below 🙂