Xander’s First Photoshoot ~ The Phillips Family

Steve and I go way back to high school days. He had (has) a deep appre­ci­a­tion for music — so much so he DJs — and the visu­al arts that he even bought a poster that we (the Visu­al Arts club) had made for one of our dances.

Through the ben­e­fit of Face­book, we recon­nect­ed through mutu­al friends to the point that I was priv­i­leged to cap­ture this moment with Michelle and Xan­der, his two loves of his life. See­ing him after all those years passed, was like yes­ter­day. His hos­pitable demeanour had­n’t changed which only matched how great Michelle was.

So there we were, tak­ing Xan­der’s first “offi­cial” pho­to­shoot. Xan­der was cool, calm and col­lect­ed — what a great mod­el! He showed me his fox stuffed luvie, his love for the Blue Jays and of course, his exquis­ite taste in music (which I’m sure has tran­scend­ed from his father…hehe!).

And as we got near the end of the pho­to­shoot, Michelle got dis­tract­ed by Xan­der’s cute­ness that she had­n’t real­ized Steve kneel­ing in antic­i­pa­tion for her hand in mar­riage. What a beau­ti­ful and sweet moment to have cap­tured for this high school friend of mine. This reunion gave me the warm fuzzies all over!

Enjoy high­lights of Xan­der’s cute­ness and how the sur­prise pro­pos­al unravelled.

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