When you get engaged there’s a little montage that flashes before your eyes: drinking champagne while twirling around in a dozen dresses, cake samples, a riot of color swatches, cake samples, the overwhelming scent of a thousand flowers you’ve never heard of, cake samples, imagining yourself on a Cape Cod beach or at MFABoston, and that one beautiful moment as you stare over at your beloved before they say “I do.”

Then you’re hit with invoices.

And paperwork.

Even for the cake samples.

Sometimes when I work with couples I have to remind them that it's okay to be affectionate. It's understandable, not everyone has a lot of experience in front of the camera and you feel so nervous and awkward about what kinds of weird things your face could be doing (which is why an engagement session can be just the right level of exposure for camera-shy couples) but Ozzie and Nick didn't have any of that.

"Lust and mystery sparkled in her scintillant eyes, cruelty lurked in the curl of her full red lips. Each movement of her supple body was subtly suggestive. Her coiffure imitated that of the queen's, on her feet were gilded sandals..." - A Witch Shall Be Born, Robert E. Howard