Happy Holidays everyone!  Today, I bring you a surprise proposal of Blake & Darla in Dumbo, Brooklyn.  I got a call from Blake a few months back after he came upon the surprise proposal shoot I did with Kenan & Stephanie back in the spring.  He told me that he wanted to surprise his girlfriend Darla by proposing to her while they were on their New York trip, right in time for Christmas.  I was of course more than happy to oblige, and help capture the special moment for them.  Now neither Blake or Darla had ever been to NY, so it was a bit tricky to figure out where exactly we were going to do the proposal since neither of them any idea where anything was.  After offering some of the popular suggestions, and after browsing through a bunch of photos, we not only decided the location, but planned the exact area, exact background, time of day, and even discussed hidden signals and messages to pull off the surprise without Darla knowing.  Blake convinced her that he wanted some nice couple photos while they were in such a magnificent city, so we pretended to do a normal couples session.  After finishing most of the photo session, we finally made it to the chosen spot that Blake and I discussed previously, he got down on one knee, and asked Darla to marry him.  How did it go?  What did she say?  Find out for yourself below!

* PS. This set has some of my favorite black & white shots of the year!

waiting for the signal