Happy Monday, all! If you’re looking for our first Alt Summit recap, its up over at the Assemble Shop Blog today. Stay tuned for more visual goodies from Alt here this week

I loved sharing our Northwest Sparkle inspiration board last week. Today I finally get to share my favorites from our engagement session with Carina Skrobecki. I could not recommend a better photographer if you’re looking for one. Carina is super laid back, fun, and made our session such a good time. I think Erik even had lots of fun! I’m super super happy with these photos and cannot WAIT for her to shoot our wedding in 2014.

Because we took these in December, Carina and I went back and forth several times on picking the perfect location where hopefully we wouldn’t get rained out. Our original hope was to take them at Treehouse point, but they were booked full even in the wintertime. So, we came up with the Volunteer Park Conservatory, and I think they actually better here than they would have been in the treehouses anyway. The lighting was so pretty and it was a great choice to keep us out of the rain. But then of course, it didn’t rain. It was actually a gorgeous sunny day! So, after we left the conservatory, we walked through some of the beautiful neighborhoods of Capitol Hill and finished up with a hot cocoa picnic at the Volunteer Park Bandstand.

Carina so perfectly captured our laid back northwest spirit, infused with a little spunk. I had such a hard time choosing just these images from the 85 beautiful frames we were sent. Thanks, Carina, you’re amazing!