Shooting Maddy and Chris’s photos was extra special because Maddy is a close friend of mine. We studied abroad in Paris together during college, and became fast friends bonding over our shared love of photography. In Paris, we would often schedule photo walks together, where we would wander around for hours, cameras in hand, capturing what we loved and discussing our work afterwards.

When Andrew wrote me last summer to say that he was planning on proposing to my friend Amy, I started crying happy tears in my living room. Andrew’s email subject line alone – “Special Occasion :)” – was enough to get me tearing up before I even opened the email. It’s always exciting when one of your close friends gets engaged, but the feeling of being in on the secret just can’t be beat; it’s indescribable and so, so special.

Whitney and Brian’s engagement session was a total blast to photograph, and eventually got picked up by PopSugar. We began our morning at the Boston Common.

After the Boston Common, we headed over to Cambridge to the Harvard Art Museum.

Normally, when photographing engagements, if I haven’t met the person getting proposed to before, I can hide in plain sight leading up to the proposal; I just pretend to be taking photos of my surroundings while actually keeping an eye out for the couple’s arrival. In the case of Andrew and Mary’s Gramercy Park proposal, though I hadn’t met Mary before, I had to do things a little differently.