Westin Arlington Gateway | Wedding Photographer | Ashleigh and Eric

Ceremony: St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church
Reception:The Westin Arlington Gateway
Caterer: The Westin Arlington Gateway
Florist: Flower Gallery of Manassas
Cake: Pastries by Randolph
DJ: Grenier and Sons
Bridal Gown: Love Couture Bridal

The Westin Arlington Gateway

801 North Glebe Road
Arlington, Virginia 22203
(703)-537-4245

Ever After Visuals is a mother-daughter wedding photography team, who specialize in wedding photojournalism in Virginia, DC and Maryland. We also do engagement photography, destination weddings, destination wedding, day after wedding photography, trash the dress, family portraits, lifestyle portrait.

Eric and Ashleigh like to travel together and often discuss places they’d like to visit. Once such place was Charleston, which Eric liked for its historical character while Ashleigh had always wanted to visit the charming Southern town as she’d never been able to make it up to the city despite many vacations to Hilton Head with her family.

When it came time to propose, after considering a number of locations, Eric kept coming back to looking at Charleston. However, he also wanted to surprise Ashleigh, which presented a bit of a problem… As Charleston is 536 miles away from DC.

Eric covered up his tracks by telling Ashleigh he wanted to wait to propose to her until after she could meet the rest of his family during a late June trip to his hometown Seattle. Also, he created an alibi for the random Charleston trip by creating a story that he was speaking at a small conference about online financial publishing (even going as far as creating a fake itinerary for the event and sending it to detail-oriented Ashleigh). Eric’s plan was to spend the day in Charleston and propose to her after a carriage ride through the city.

On the day of the trip Eric and Ashleigh arrived into Charleston and spent the day exploring the city by going to markets, trying different local food, and sight seeing. Eric began to sweat a bit when Ashleigh worried about the treatment of horses pulling carriages throughout the city.

He assured her the horses were treated well and she had no need to worry…

Closer to the time Eric was supposed to attend his “conference” he told Ashleigh he had a surprise for her before heading out for his “speaking engagement.” The horse-drawn carriage picked them up, and gave them a tour of Charleston’s historic district. After about 30 minutes of the carriage ride, the carriage stopped and let Eric and Ashleigh out to tour the Battery Park area, which overlooks Charleston’s harbor and is lined by giant mansions dating back to the Civil War.

Eric had hoped to propose in a large gazebo at the center of the park, but a group of children playing in the gazebo made that spot less than ideal for a romantic engagement. Instead, Eric walked around the park looking for another place to propose as Ashleigh quickly grew concerned what was on his mind. Eventually, Eric found his spot and bent to a knee to propose to Ashleigh.

She said yes, and didn’t begrudge Eric for the inclusion of a carriage in the proposal. After popping the question they headed out to a restuarant which had champagne waiting.

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