Bradley Beach Engagement Session | Jersey Shore | Carolyn & Nick
I am so excited to share Carolyn and Nick’s Bradley Beach engagement session that I photographed at the Jersey Shore! Carolyn and Nick met in college, at a mutual friend’s birthday party their junior year. While they were in the same major and had many mutual friends, their paths hadn’t crossed until then. Despite only a brief conversation, they hit it off and they both went out of their way to run into each other again the next night. Nick went to the party really hoping that Carolyn would be there, and luckily she had dragged her friends out on a Wednesday night hoping the same thing. After making each other laugh all night, they spent the following afternoon playing beach volleyball, where Nick was impressed by Carolyn’s trash-talking skills even though it wasn’t backed up by any volleyball talent!
A few weeks after they met, Carolyn had a sorority date function. Through a friend, she asked Nick to be her date, and he said yes! She never lets him forget that technically she asked him out and that he wore a flannel with a blazer to a formal event! In spite of his terrible outfit choice, they had a great time and she said yes when he asked her to be his date the following week. The rest is history!
Engaged on 03/14/2020, the proposal: “Nick planned the day of the proposal to be the 4 year ‘anniversary’ of when they celebrated St. Patrick’s day, the day we knew we really liked each other. Nick suggested that they check out a new apartment complex nearby and made sure they were both dressed up “to make a good impression.” The apartment hunt didn’t go great, but that didn’t matter because Nick suggested they walk over to the boardwalk to enjoy the beautiful weather. After their usual walk up and down the boardwalk, they sat down at one of the benches like usual to enjoy the beautiful day. Nervously, Nick pulled out the ring he had been hiding in his coat pocket and got down on one knee, and asked Carolyn to spend the rest of her life with him! Moments later, a couple passing by noticed the proposal and offered to take pictures to remember the day. On the walk back to their apartment, they took a slight detour to the nearby neighborhood bakery where Nick had put in a request for Carolyn’s favorite chocolate cake with the date, 3/14/2020, written in pink frosting to immortalize the date.”
When Carolyn and Nick aren’t planning their Lehigh University ceremony and their Event Center at Blue reception, they like to try new foods and recipes, watch movies, hang out with friends and family, read next to each other on the couch and overall just spend time together!
Any advice for future couple’s planning?
Don’t propose the day before a worldwide lockdown. Or do. As multiple people have said to us, if you can survive seeing only each other while cooped up in an apartment together for 12 weeks, you can make it through just about anything.
Decide on a venue, photographer, and ceremony location early. I was honestly not too stressed about getting them reserved when we did, but in the end Carolyn was definitely right in wanting to get them booked early. Once we got these things planned, a lot of other things fell into place and it has been a lot less stressful going through the wedding process.
And finally, what are you most looking forward to about your wedding day?
Nick: Seeing Carolyn walk down the aisle in front of our families and finally being able to call her my wife.
Carolyn: Getting to marry Nick and spending the rest of our lives together!
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