{The Wedding Diaries} Our Pre-Wedding Shoot

A couple of weekends ago Dean and I met Julia and Ian from Modern Photographic, our super talented wedding photographers, at South Bank in London for our pre-wedding shoot.

We started off at South Bank before heading over the Millenium Bridge to the Thomas Heatherwick Sculpture and then ending up at Love Lane for some of my favourite shots of the day.

At the end of the post is our proposal story as I realised that I have never actually written about it for the blog and seeing as it’s how it all started… it sure makes sense to

The Proposal

I’d mentioned to Dean more than a few times about getting married and after a while I gave up thinking that it wouldn’t happen… after all when we first met I must have told him countless times that I didn’t ever want to get married. A different story to now as a soon to be married Wedding Planner. So when he booked a city break to Turin for my birthday, I thought it was just that… for my birthday.

Two days before my birthday, Dean had planned for us to take a lift up a nearby mountain but when we got there it was closed. Dean was adamant that we would find another way to get up there but even the buses weren’t running. I told him it was fine and we would go the next day. Little did I know what he had planned. In the end he gave in and we visited a place called Lingotto, an old Fiat factory converted into a shopping centre and also one of the sites for the 2006 Winter Olympics. When walking back over the bridge, Dean got down on one knee and asked me to marry him… I was the happiest girl alive. And the reason it had to be on that day? Because he proposed with a ring that had the date 04.08.09 engraved on it – the day we got engaged.

Head on over to Julia and Ian’s blog to see some more photos from the day.

Louise xo