Engagements

Downtown Abingdon Engagement Session on the Creeper Trail

We explored the Creeper Trail for the first time for Miranda and Stephen’s engagement session. It was a beautiful Monday afternoon and the weather could not have been more lovely for photos!

Miranda and Stephen met each other on blind date. They’d met up at the cutest little ice cream parlor in Downtown Abingdon called the Ellis Soda Shop where they ended up chatting for hours over milkshakes. Their following date consisted of a four mile hike on the Creeper Trail, because neither one of them wanted to turn around and say goodnight.

Flash forward a couple of years and these lovebirds are just months from tying the knot! We went back to where it all began for their session and they even got free milkshakes out of it!

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