08/19/2026
Designing a proposal starts before the ring ever leaves the box. These two just said their I Dos but I had to revisit their incredible proposal.
The right photographer isn’t just someone with a camera. It’s someone with connections — a network of florists, planners, and stylists who bring a vision together without breaking the illusion. Francisco Colom booked an A-frame on the Cape and told Alexandria Lee it was a book club weekend. Nothing more. I walked him through what to expect, minute by minute, so he could see it happening before it happened. I over-plan. I over-communicate. Not because I don’t trust the moment — because I do, and I want nothing to interrupt it. After enough of these, you know exactly how people move when they’re nervous, when they’re stalling, when they’re about to say yes.
Trang Vo Waters arrived hours early with her husband beside her, building an arrangement meant to hold a single moment and then disappear. White and blue blooms against an A-frame window wall, snow on the beach outside. She set it, she styled it, and when it was over, she came back and took it all down — like it had never been there. Like the only proof was the two of them, and now, the photographs. She was connected to me by another incredible florist Roxy Rodriguez | Boston Wedding Florist that I had worked with previously.
We didn’t pack up after the yes. We walked down to the water, through dune grass rimed with frost, past snow on the sand. No recreating the proposal — that already happened. This was just the two of them, newly engaged, in the cold and the light. Her hair in the wind. Him still looking at her.
An engagement session tacked onto a proposal isn’t required. But if you have twenty more minutes of golden light and two people still glowing from the biggest yes of their lives — you take it. You hold onto it in frames, because the feeling fades faster than anyone expects, and the photographs are what’s left when it does.
Florist Trang Vo Waters
Groom Francisco Colom
Bride Alexandria Lee
