Soda City Engagement Session

Couples, Engagement Session

May 7, 2018

Pugs, Donuts, Gamecocks, and Soda City: A Love Story

Casey + John

For their engagement session, we took their child, Mustard, to the local farmers market, Soda City. Almost every Saturday these three go to Soda City, making it a special place for them.

Daily Mustard

How they met:

“I was in a band with one of Casey’s best friends from High School. It was through this friend when we met at a Rubix Cube theme party at their apartment in Columbia. Rubix Cube you may ask? Well, the goal is to start off wearing items of clothing that are the different colors on a Rubix Cube. Throughout the night you were supposed to trade articles of clothing to “solve” the cube, however, I don’t recall anyone succeeding. Eventually, we became friends on Twitter and the communication began…”

Soda City Farmers Market Engagement Session

“We share a lot of the same interests which leads to different trips and adventures.”

Donut and engagement ring

The proposal:

It happened Christmas morning (even though Casey said he shouldn’t propose on a holiday). It was John’s first Christmas away from his family ever, and he wanted to impart one of his most memorable Christmas’s growing up.

“My siblings and I woke up to an empty living room and immediately freaked out. So much that my Dad had to reveal to us that someone had visited because the milk and cookies were missing. Sure enough, we picked up the plate and on the bottom were 3 clues for us each to go on our own scavenger hunt for presents.”

Once the ring made it to John’s parent’s house, he and my sister, Mary Alice, brainstormed clues to build a scavenger hunt. It was 13 clues long with presents at each stop. Halfway through the scavenger hunt, John iced Casey, and the tantamount clue was to go in the backyard and dig up the the final clue.

“As she was reading the final clue, I popped the question.”

Farmers market engagement session Bked Donuts

“We spent so long working opposite schedules, that we learned to value the time we spent together and started to make our own ritual travels. This began with trips to the same restaurant every week (Cantina 76).”

Petite Fleur: Mobile Flower Boutique

Funny couples photos

Soda City Farmers Market Engagement Session

“We are both into music. Our relationship band is definitely Dr. Dog who we have seen 8 or more times. We also made Shaky Knees Music Festival in Atlanta our yearly pilgrimage. Even though this year we aren’t going due to a friend’s wedding. Not to mention, we both love Disney and so far have been 4 times together. We both also love to cheer on our Gamecocks at Willy B as well as tailgate with our friends.”

Street art engagement session Artsy couple photos Cute couple photos

The ring:

“Well, it began when Casey was drooling over a ring so much that she took a screenshot of it on Instagram. It was a peach raw diamond ring made by Chinchar-Maloney out of Portland, Oregon. I managed to find the ring and save a picture of it on my phone in a hidden folder.

Once the time came for me to get the ring, I called up Chinchar-Maloney. I told them how Casey was enamored by that ring but they told me they didn’t have that ring since it was custom made. I thought I was down and out but sure enough, they still had a sister stone to the diamond used in the picture! It was fate at that point.”