I met Michael and Sarah on our way to Louisville to visit family. We stopped at this cute little coffee shop in Asheville at…7am. I am not a morning person but to get the chance to meet a sweet couple over some coffee made me excited! I loved getting the chance to hear their story and spend some time with them. They both moved to Asheville two years ago and were working at a bar on the water. They instantly hit it off and then two weeks later they were dating! They were engaged on May 17th on a trip that they won to Black Mountain. Michael had the stone from his grandmother’s ring set into the engagement ring that he gave Sarah! How awesome is that?!

At the end of July these two love birds moved to St. Louis for Sarah to get her Master’s in Social Work, but will be heading back here next year for their spring wedding at The Farm in Asheville. We cannot wait!

For their engagement session they had a few different location ideas in mind. They are book lovers so we had to start off in one of their favorite book stores, Malaprops. We then walked around Asheville for a bit to get some of the city that they have come to love, then hit a park and ended at French Broad Chocolate Lounge. We hit more locations than we normally do, but since they were about to move we wanted to make sure they got some shots from their first home together.