Jess and Bill chose Jockey Hollow in Morristown, NJ for their October engagement session. Just before November approaches, the meadows get super overgrown here and the Fall foliage is unmatched! This is one of our absolute favorite places to shoot in the Fall, and yes we post about it a lot. But this is definitely one of our favorite sessions from last year, we had to share! Jess and Bill were so stinkin’ natural and fun together.

This sweet couple got engaged in South Philly, he took her to dinner in Old City and promised her ice cream afterward. He got down on one knee beneath some string lights. You can read the rest below!

If their wedding day is anything like their engagement session, we are way too excited for their Skytop Lodge wedding this coming October !

 

How They Met:

“We met during the summer session before our first year at Penn State University through mutual friends. I guess you could say we “fell” for each other then.”

First Date:

“We didn’t go on our first date until our sophomore year at PSU. We went to a restaurant called Cozy Thai when I was still a vegetarian. Bill pretended to love the tofu appetizer I ordered and I remember thinking, he’s a keeper. However, I learned several years later after dating that he thought the tofu tasted like a wet sponge and only pretended to like it to impress me.

We spent the rest of college showing off our impressive dance moves at formals, spending Valentine’s Day at Fetty Wap concerts, vacationing at both of our family’s favorite spot (Long Beach Island, NJ), and making some of the best memories of our lives together.

Our jobs brought us both to Philadelphia after graduation. We couldn’t decide which cheesesteak place we liked the best, so we chose to live in Manayunk, South Philly, and Plymouth Meeting over a span of 5 years.”

Their Engagement Story:

“We went out to eat the day before Valentine’s Day in 2020 in Society Hill, Philadelphia. It seemed like a perfectly normal night until Bill wouldn’t let me get a take-home box for the dinner I only ate ¼ of (extremely unusual behavior for him as he always eats my leftovers). He told me after the dinner that I was too full to finish that we were going for ice cream. The path to ice cream took a different route, as Bill led me down a beautiful walkway and asked me to marry him. Never got my ice cream.”