Hey, everyone! Tatiana here to share with you how I, a professional photographer, was accepted into the ancient order of NINJA!
Uhhh … or, how I totally snuck up on Katie and surprised her with an engagement photo shoot!
More on that in a moment!
Tony Fisher contacted us Sept. 19th after he found us — wait for it — THROUGH OUR BLOG! We’re pretty happy about that, since we put so much work into these.
He wanted to surprise his beloved of almost four years, Katie, when he popped the big question! We suggested Unity Village as the meeting area, and he had to fib a bit to get her to go with him without any questions or suspicion. You could say Tony was Ninja #2.
He told her they needed to go to a dinner with friends, but it was a pretty fancy place — great cover and excuse to dress up!
We had emailed Tony and we agreed to meet at the big tower at Unity Village. I was “taking” photos of the flowers … this is when I spotted them! #sosneaky
It was abnormally more crowded than usual, so the rose garden wouldn’t do for the big finale! Ninja 1 and Ninja 2 (Tony and I) thankfully linked minds. He didn’t seem to know quite where he wanted to go, so instead of following them like I had been, I veered off course and started moving away from them. I then started taking photos straight ahead — signaling that was the perfect spot where he should get on one knee! He understood and walked right in front of the camera — and bam! She couldn’t even stop smiling enough for that smooch!
When I stopped and pointed my camera in front of the fountains, Tony brilliantly followed my lead — directing Katie in my line of site. Here is the exact moment when she realized what’s about to happen — so magical!
I’M NOT CRYING; YOU’RE CRYING!
I don’t even think Katie noticed me getting closer and closer to them until I said, “Congratulations!” I then felt it appropriate to say “I’m not being creepy, I promise! I’m supposed to be here!” and that’s when Tony explained his master plan to his now fiancée.
“Well, now that you cried all your makeup off — would you like to do a photo shoot!?”
She said yes to me, too. 😉
She was so overwhelmed by her gorgeous ring that instead of breathing, she just kept exhaling “OH MY GOD!!!” every second. It was so wonderful I told her that would be the headline for the blog.
“Oh my gawd, I’m going to wear this for the rest of my life!”
“Oh my God, I can’t believe you pulled this off!”
“OMG, I can’t stop looking at it!”
Tony, make sure your bride-to-be looks up from her hand long enough to cross the street!
Aw, look at that cheese face! I think in this very moment, on October 9th, 2017 at approximately 6:30 pm — Katie was THE happiest woman in the world. I’m so overjoyed that I was able to capture this incredibly special moment for these two. Plus, they are huge “Game of Thrones” fans like myself … so they are great people in my book!
We wish you many more happy memories to come at Kansas City Photography — and hope you keep us in mind for a wedding photographer (we travel, tee hee).
Love love love, sooooo happy for Katie what a wonderful blog I will be following!!!
Thank you SO much! They were really just the sweetest!