.:heather & nate:.

The fantastic Lauren Lapoint told Heather about us and now here we are. (By the way, Lauren & Justin are getting married THIS NEXT WEEKEND and today is Lauren's birthday so go wish her some birthday love if you know her!)

When Heather contacted us for their fall engagement photos we were booked up pretty solid so we finally settled on a weekend in mid-October. Unfortunately, we had to move it due to some ugly weather (*sigh*, October, when will you ever be predictable in Missouri?). However, when we finally got to shoot them last weekend the weather turned out to be FABULOUS and we were all very glad we'd waited. We met Heather for the first time and her dashing beau and discovered that there couldn't be two sweeter, more genuine people. We took them on our "walking game" (just you wait, when we take your picture you'll find out what it is!) and just... wow, seriously people, they are stunning together!

Nate & Heather met through friends years ago, but at first Heather was totally opposed... until she actually saw the guy. Now they're inseparable! Heather's still here at good ol' Mizzou studying animal sciences for a short while longer (she's reached the legal limit of how many pets you can have in Columbia city limits-did anyone else know there was one?) and Nate is up in Kirksville finishing up. There are always question marks when it comes to the future, especially graduating from school, but the best part about it is that they have one another to figure out the rest of their lives with. *Sigh* I'm a sucker for love.

So check out how gorgeous these two are and what *amazing* models they made. It isn't every day your photographers will demand laughter and cheesy, lovey dovey smiles and people can hit them right on the nose every single time. Okay... so we didn't demand grins and loving looks, Heather and Nate just naturally bring out the brightness and best in one another. But a girl's gotta give herself some credit, right?

Now if I could only be tall, dark, and gorgeous like everyone else that seems to be surrounding me these days... (except for the dark, Brian is a little pale)