Engagement Session · Waxhaw, NC

Mya & Jacob's Wildflower Engagement at Marvin Efird Park

Mya and Jacob embracing among orange, pink and purple zinnias

The Story

Mya had one request for her engagement photos: flowers. By late August we assumed that was off the table. Most of the summer blooms had faded, so we planned the session around Marvin Efird Park’s pond, its tree line and the open lawn instead.

Then we came around the bend and found a field of wildflowers that none of us had seen there before. It had grown in over the summer, thick with zinnias in orange, pink and purple. Mya got her florals after all, and the second half of the session happened almost entirely in that field.

We started by the water in the early evening light, moved to the porch swing and the open lawn, walked into the wildflowers, and finished on a blanket in the grass as the light got low. Mya and Jacob laughed through most of it, and you can see it in nearly every frame.

There was one more twist. Mya’s engagement party was the following weekend, and she wanted the photos there. I edited the full session in the Loerop Signature and delivered their online gallery within two days, in time to print and share with everyone celebrating them.

Before the ring Mya & Jacob's fall couple's photos at Marvin Efird Park

The Photos

45 photographs · tap any image to view it full size

Black and white close-up of Mya's hand and engagement ring resting on Jacob's chest

Mya with her arms around Jacob's neck, smiling at the camera among green trees

Mya and Jacob kissing beside the pond at Marvin Efird Park

Jacob hugging Mya from behind as they both laugh

Mya wrapping her arms around Jacob's neck, laughing in soft backlight

Black and white portrait of Mya laughing as she looks up at Jacob

Mya's hands and engagement ring clasped behind Jacob's neck, the pond soft in the background

Mya and Jacob embracing beside the pond, trees reflected in the water

Jacob smiling down at Mya over her shoulder

Mya smiling up at Jacob with her hand on his shoulder, engagement ring in view

Mya and Jacob leaning in close and smiling in warm evening light

Mya and Jacob resting their foreheads together on the lawn

Black and white frame of Mya and Jacob with their foreheads together

Mya and Jacob seen from behind on a wooden porch swing, looking out at the trees

Mya and Jacob smiling at each other while seated on the grass

Jacob pressing his cheek to Mya's as she laughs

Mya and Jacob walking hand in hand across the lawn at Marvin Efird Park

Mya and Jacob walking away hand in hand toward the pond

Mya and Jacob walking toward the camera, laughing and holding hands

Black and white frame of Mya laughing in Jacob's arms

Wide view of Mya and Jacob embracing at the edge of a wildflower field in Waxhaw, NC

Mya and Jacob standing in tall wildflowers, Mya smiling at the camera

Mya and Jacob smiling at the camera in a field of wildflowers

Jacob holding Mya close among the wildflowers, blooms soft in the foreground

Jacob lifting Mya off the ground as she laughs in the wildflower field

Jacob lifting Mya among the flowers as she kicks one foot up

Wide view of Mya and Jacob embracing in tall grass and wildflowers below the tree line

Mya leaning into Jacob behind a row of wildflowers

Mya and Jacob seated on a white blanket, smiling at the camera in front of wildflowers

Mya lying back in Jacob's lap, laughing, with wildflowers behind them

Jacob cupping Mya's face as she smiles up at him

Mya and Jacob lying head to head on a white blanket, smiling at each other

Black and white frame of Mya and Jacob lying head to head on a blanket

Black and white overhead frame of Jacob smiling up at Mya

Jacob resting his head in Mya's lap and smiling up at her

Mya sitting on the blanket with Jacob's head in her lap, wildflowers behind them

Mya leaning over Jacob as he lies on the blanket, both smiling

Mya resting her chin on Jacob's shoulder as they lie on the blanket

Low angle view of Mya leaning over Jacob on a blanket in the grass

Mya raising her hand to show her engagement ring as the couple lies in the grass

Mya and Jacob laughing together while seated on the blanket

Mya and Jacob touching foreheads with wildflowers behind them

Mya kissing Jacob with her hand on his cheek, seated in the grass

Mya and Jacob seated on the blanket holding hands and smiling at the camera

In Their Words

“I'm absolutely in love with these. Pure perfection!”

Mya L.

“Thank you for this Mike! They came out great!”

Jacob B.

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