My third shoot of the week was with Jennilee and Randy, two crazy-fun kids who are getting {hitched!} this May 9th, and guess who’s the photographer? 
We did our shoot at Seattle’s Pike Place not only because it’s all photographable hotness with its buskers and tourists, but it’s also Jenn’s childhood haunt. Her parents run a jewelry business right here and she and her sister Michelle grew up here so she knows every inch of this beautiful, busy, fishy place.
Randy and Jenn met in school, hooked up, broke it off and met nine years later and fell hopelessly in love with each other again. Randy proposed March of this year.
“Why wait?” he’d answered my question with a question, looking at Jenn in a way only a man in love could.
We started with the great Pike Place underground, where the infamously gross Gum Wall is. This is a wall literally plastered with pieces of colorful gum, some as high as a storey.
“People have been doing this for, like, 30 years,” says Jennilee, as she sticks her umpteenth piece of gum in this place. I remind them not to lean on it as we make some pictures in this eerily isolated alley which tunnels under Seattle’s busiest market.
We walked through Pike Place, visited with her family, stopped by a cute little Chinese deli which serves mocha alongside char siew kabob, and then winded our way up through the shops and even stopped by for a little dance and song on the way.
My assistant Amar took this beautiful shot of Jenn and Randy playing around.
We ended the shoot at the park overlooking the freeway and lake with the stadiums Safeco and Qwest in the distance.
And as we mingled around with protesters, street people and tourists on this lovely sunny Sunday afternoon, I can’t help but feel thankful to Jenn and Randy for giving me such a wonderful first engagement shoot. Thanks, guys. I cannot wait to shoot your wedding!
