Cherry Blossom Festival: Happy Engagement Sarah and Michael!

April 28, 2015

Sarah and Michael had their engagement session during the Cherry Blossom festival in Washington, D.C.! It was gorgeous!

Sarah shares, “Michael and I met through mutual friends at work where he was working as a scientist and I was a validation engineer at the same company. We really started talking at a happy hour, where we learned that we had both graduated from UMBC, Mike with a degree in biology and me with a degree in physics. We spent most of the happy hour trying to find out if we had any of the same professors or mutual friends but we did not. He later admitted to me that he only went to the happy hour because he knew I would be there. After that, Mike started bringing me baked goods whenever he would go out for lunch. We started dating a couple of weeks later and now spend a lot of time cooking and baking together.

Mike is really good at keeping me calm. I tend to be a very anxious person. I remember the first time I told him I loved him was when we went ice skating in DC at the sculpture garden and I thought my skating ticket was lost. I became so upset and I wanted to cry. Mike just came over sat me down, gave me a hug and told me everything would be okay. Then he turned around and found my ticket right behind me as it had just fallen out of my pocket. That was when I first realized that I loved him.

Mike took me with him to go ring shopping so that he could get an idea of the kind of ring I like. He had intended to surprise me later but we ended up finding a ring that we both really liked. Two hours later, he nervously proposed to me in front of the steps in our house.”