Stalker

Last night was our engagement shoot, complimentary with our photography package. We decided to have the shoot at a local park where we have had a few dates and like to take our dog Pepper to walk. It was important to us to include Pepper in part of our wedding and unfortunately, she isn't welcome at our ceremony or reception. Not only do they not allow animals, Pepper is also quite skittish around strangers, specifically men. We can't know for sure why this is, but I found her running down the highway and it's possible she was abused at one point. Anyway, we decided that having Pepper come with us to the park would be a nice way to have her take part in some of the wedding stuff.

We arrived at the park 45 minutes early, partly to scope out photography locations, partly to tucker Pepper out a bit. She's a bit high stung and we wanted her to be a little mellow when the photographer arrived. As we were walking around we saw the cutest little yearling buck laying by a creek and eating. We found a foot path to get a little closer to the deer, which peaked Pepper's interest. We were probably 15 to 20 feet from the little guy and he got up once we were that close. I figured he was going to hop into the wooded area, instead in slowly started walking towards us. Slowly but surely he made his way within about 3 feet of us, bobbing his head from side to side at Pepper. He had no interest in Mr. Tal or me, just Pepper. This interaction went on for about 10 minutes, when we figured we should get going. We gently tugged Pepper away from her new found friend and headed down the foot path. Bambi decided he didn't like this and stopped his hoofs at us and followed. We crossed the bridge over the little creek and the path followed the creek. On the opposite bank the little guy followed, then he went down the bank into the creek and crossed to follow us. Seriously, my dog had a stalker. I don't know why, Mr. Tal wondered if the young buck smelled something on Pepper that he liked. Eventually, I got a little scared that the deer would get mad at us for taking his girlfriend away so we picked up the dog and headed out towards the parking lot to meet our photographer.

The shoot itself went well and I think we got some great shots. Our photographer said we should have the disk of images next week to choose ten from, he'll then edit those and send us the digital files of those images. We also will get an eight by ten of our choosing. I'm excited to see the shots, it was a beautiful day and a beautiful setting.

How about you readers, any funny stories from your engagement pictures?

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