Melissa + Barrett | Engaged
Friends, we have a special engagement session for you today! Our dear friends, Sasha and Joey, referred this awesome couple to us and we couldn’t be happier! Melissa and Barrett are fellow photographers, focusing on bands and portraits. We knew that this session would be a blast and would have a unique spin, but it was even better than we could have imagined! Melissa and Barrett were so much fun and introduced us to our new favorite location: Twin Oaks!!
The Couple
Melissa and Barrett met at Warped Tour 2012 in West Palm Beach. They were both photographing that day and struck up a conversation when a close friend introduced them. They are both avid photographers, foodies, movie goers, and love to game whenever they have the time! Melissa and Barrett knew they were meant to be when they saw that they could be themselves and talk about everything together. It had been that way from the very start of their relationship and never changed!
Barrett and Melissa took a cruise with her family to Cozumel, Mexico. They went out on their balcony on the second day of the cruise and Barrett was so nervous. He popped the question and completely surprised Melissa because he made it clear he wasn’t going to propose on the cruise! Her ring is a vintage style custom ring made out of white gold and has a princess cut diamond. Barrett took Melissa to several stores to see what style she liked and he discovered that this ring was her favorite!
The Engagement Session
This awesome couple met us out at Twin Oaks Conservation Area in Kissimmee for a sunrise session. There was not a cloud in sight and it the perfect weather for a session. Jack and I had never been to Twin Oaks before, but holy cow was it gorgeous! Our usual conservation area in town is filled with huge oak trees and greenery. When we arrived to Twin Oaks, we were met with the most beautiful golden fields that the sun reflected perfectly. We were in love and Melissa and Barrett made the location even more beautiful!
We then travelled to the Pioneer Village at Shingle Creek. It is a historical village with authentic structures that once stood in our city! We spent most of our time at the replica 1800s train depot which has an old strip of train tracks. The village also has a schoolhouse, blacksmith shop, church (where you can actually get married!!), and more. The last time I had been to the Pioneer Village was in 8th grade for a project filmed in the schoolhouse and it was just as I had remembered! Such a unique engagement and wedding location!
Melissa and Barrett will be getting married at Hastings Ranch this November and we couldn’t be more excited!! It is such a gorgeous venue and one of our favorites. Take a peek below at their engagement session at Twin Oaks and the Pioneer Village!
Melissa + Barrett | Twin Oaks and Pioneer Village Engagement Session | Kissimmee, FL
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"We had previously experienced Haleigh's work at my brother's wedding and we knew we had to have her for our wedding as well! Haleigh is an exceptionally gifted photographer and as we viewed the wedding album we got more and more excited about each wonderful moment that was perfectly captured. We loved how easy it was to work with Haleigh and all of the fun and creative ideas that she had to create some truly special pictures. Haleigh actually came up to the DC area for us - not once, but twice (engagement and wedding pics)! And yet despite the distance, it was really and truly easy to work with her."
- Nicole and Michael
"Haleigh and Jack are two of the most amazing, sincerest individuals that I have ever worked with! We adore them so much and they made my fiancé and I feel like pros while taking pictures. We had initially had our engagement pictures taken by someone else and they were really disappointing, so we turned to Haleigh and Jack and they made us feel so comfortable, had a BLAST (who knew taking pictures in the Florida heat could be fun?!), and our photos turned out so much more than amazing. We have found our forever photographer and we are so grateful to have had the experience to work with Haleigh and Jack (and of course Rocky, too!)"
- Alyson + Nick
""Haleigh and Jack are amazing! They had our wedding date available only three months out and their prices are ridiculously reasonable. They both take such amazing photos and Haleigh goes out of her way to make you feel special and pamper you a little bit. She even has an exclusive FB page for her brides where we all share tips and ask questions. Their photos are incredible and their post processing really gave us the feeling we were looking for in our photos. Plus, we got our photos back in less than two weeks! Lastly, my new husband isn’t the most social in the world and was nervous about having someone in his ready room but Jack made him totally comfortable and they got along great.""
[…] Jack and I left Melissa and Barrett’s engagement session in April, we couldn’t stop talking about them. They were just such a fun couple, so down to […]