“Perhaps, after all, romance did not come into one’s life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one’s side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a golden-hearted rose slipping from its green sheath.”

L.M. Montgomery

This is one of my favorite quotes because it describes how I fell in love with my husband. But I think it describes Jack and Tori too. Friends in high school, they did not date (“Tori was on the dance team and I don’t dance”, was Jack’s explanation of why he didn’t ask her out), but he thought she was pretty and I’m pretty sure he might have had a crush on her. They stayed friends through college and finally towards the end of school things started to change. Tori started to notice things about Jack that maybe hadn’t struck her quite that way before and soon their friendship blossomed into romance. Well it’s clear that they were absolutely meant to be. I loved getting to know them as we climbed around Bear’s Den overlook along the Appalachian trail where Jack had proposed one rainy afternoon. They brought their pup along too who was so obedient! Thankfully the rain was nowhere around the day of our shoot and it was the perfect summer evening.

Jack and Tori, you two are perfect together!! Can’t wait for your wedding in Harper’s Ferry this fall!