Growing up in a small town, Cody & Ashley always knew each other, however they didn’t date until they moved away to college and returned home and ended up at a mutual friends party.

The proposal:

On Christmas morning 2018, Cody gave Ashley a note, which ended up being the first of a few notes that sent her on a scavenger hunt around the house. The last note had Ashley looking in the Christmas tree for a certain colored ornament. When she couldn’t find it, she turned around and Cody was down on his knee with the ring, which he had all along!

The best part of the entire engagement story (which is pretty epic!) is that Cody proposed to Ashley in the same house and same date that her step-dad proposed to her mother 24-years ago.

The engagement portraits:

Saturday morning I awoke to a dark sky and some raindrops. I was a bit nervous that the scheduled engagement portrait session would have to be rescheduled. As the day went on the sun slowly came out and dried up the rain. Andy, Tristan and I met Cody & Ashley at a private residence in Needville, owned by a friend of Ashley’s mother. Mojo, the horse greeted us at the gate (and later came down to see what we were up to). The sun was shining, the cows were grazing nearby a copses of oak trees. We started taking pictures under the oak trees and quickly had to fend off the hoard of caterpillars. It almost felt as if they were falling from the trees there were so many.

I was so excited how close the cows let us get and how Mojo, the horse, came right up to us insisting we pet him.

Check out some of the photos from the engagement portrait session below.