Oh Michelle and Tyler, how wonderful these two are!! 🙂
Michelle and Tyler met on a missions trip in Vancouver, they were placed in the same outreach program and bonded over hard work. They worked together and interacted with the people of Vancouver, homeless and otherwise. I personally remember Michelle talking about having met this really cute guy from Alberta on the missions trip she was a part of, that was over 5 years ago. They started dating in the summer of 2009 and made it work long distance for a year and then when Michelle graduated high school in 2010 she moved out to Medicine Hat, Alberta to study nursing and be closer to Tyler.
Michelle says that her and Tyler enjoy playing sports together, except when Tyler gets in the zone, in which case it doesn’t matter if you are the love of his life, he’ll knock you over anyway! They are both competitive haha. Their favourite date together was hiking the Grouse Grind, they had hiked it 3 years prior (just before they started dating) and they felt that was when they first really connected – so lots of good memories to relive there! When asked to describe each other in 3 words, Michelle said Tyler is: charming, endearing and funny, Tyler said Michelle is: smarter than me haha and then after that he wrote kind, intelligent and patient.
Tyler loves how patient Michelle is and she cares about others, she has such a big heart. Michelle loves how funny and adorable Tyler is. He always makes her laugh no mater what her mood. She loves how in sync they are and how he can read her so well. Tyler proposed to Michelle on November 1, 2013 and it was so cute!! Men take note. Tyler took Michelle to a park in Medicine Hat where they had been to years before and carved their initials into a wooden fence. Michelle went to check if their initials were still there and beside the initials Tyler had carved “Will you marry me?” Of course Michelle said yes!  🙂
For their engagement session, we wanted to incorporate their favourite date which was on Grouse Mountain – so up the mountain we went! It was such a fabulous day in late February, snow was on the ground, sunshine was shining and then near the end of the session it started snowing! So perfect. Enjoy the photos!
Tyler helped Michelle with her skates.
Apologies on the poor quality of the gif, it’s cute though!
Adorable.
So cute!
Love this! We took a quick hot chocolate break because it was very cold outside:
It started to snow…
This photo was featured in Real Weddings magazine last issue! To see more from the feature, click HERE.
Such a great way to end the session:Thank you SO much Michelle and Tyler! I am super excited to be photographing your wedding next week Saturday!! 😀
And a thank you to the lovely Allissa Best for assisting me on this session!
Haythem - beautiful engagement photos! It’s so crazy seeing someone I went to school with getting engaged and married soon!