After we shot Blake & Nicole’s engagement session, this couple came back to our office so they could change clothes before getting back on the road. While Nicole was changing, Blake was asking us questions about working together.
Mack and I are together pretty much 100% of the time. We work together, we parent together, we travel together. About the only time we’re apart is for the random dinner we have with solo friends, and obviously, during boudoir sessions. We’re literally spending our entire lives together right now. And normally, when we tell people that, they screw up their faces and say, “UGH! I couldn’t handle it. How do you keep from killing each other?”
But Blake didn’t say that. Blake said, “Wow. That’s awesome. I would love to do that. I hate every second I have to spend away from Nicole.”
And we knew right then, even more than we knew during the engagement session, that Blake & Nicole were our kind of people.
See, marrying your best friend means that you’re excited for every second you get to spend together. Does it mean you never fight? No. Does it mean you never need alone time? No. But it means that every waking minute you have to spend apart, you’re kind of wishing you weren’t. At least… that’s the way it is for us, and we know that’s the way it’ll be for Blake & Nicole.
This gorgeous couple picked their outfits and locations when the weather was warm, and wouldn’t you know it, it went and got cold just in time for their engagement session. But I’m still in love with these images, and I know they’re excited to see them, too.
It was a dream of Blake & Nicole’s to have their engagement pictures taken in Boston… but when that didn’t work out, they brought a little of the Northeast to a tiny baseball field out in the country.
This girl is gorgeous, there’s just no way around it. You’re a lucky man, Blake!
This next one is a favorite of mine!
GAH! Stop it, you guys!
Woo hoo, Steamy! Blake & Nicole, we’re so honored to get to work with you during this exciting time in your lives. Bridal portraits are right around the corner, and before you know it, August will be knocking at the door. We’re excited!
by Chelsea
bobbileigh - Love love love the blanket pictures and that last picture is perfectly steamy.
Nicole - I LOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEE I cant even pick a favorite because I LOVE them all You just made my life so much harder to decide which to use for save the dates. But that is a good thing!!!! Thank yall so much!!!
Tawnni - LOVE all the pictures!! You did an amazing job on these two!! Nicole is one of the greatest girls I know and you captured that in these pictures!!!
Angela - Can I have that dress please? Love the ones with that run down shack in the background. You guys pick great places!
Kerri - Aw Nicole these are so amazing!!! Chelsea I the freaking best
love the date on the baseball ones, well really I just love them all lol. Congrats and you look so unbelievably happy!!! 
meaganB - Lace romper FTW!! She’s adorable.
Christian Underwood - WOW!!! I LOVE these!!!! OH. MY. GOSH. McGowan images, you are amazing!!
Liesa - I can’t believe I’m saying this, but I love the second half more than the baseball photos! They just kept getting better and better as I moved through the blog. And yeah, Nichole is ridiculously gorgeous (always has been!). GREAT work you guys! And to boot, I could NOT have said it better in your discussion about marrying your best friend. It’s seriously just how Rob and I feel!
Mike - I’m with Liesa on this one. I LOVE baseball so very much. But that second half! Ow ow ow!
Also, the way skin tone translates in your photos is just plain miraculous. Gah.
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