Nikki + Jay | Engaged! | Yale Campus Engagement Session | Marsh Botanical Garden Engagement Session | Kroon Hall Engagement Session | Beinecke Rare Book Library Engagement Session | Sterling Memorial Library Engagement Session | New Haven, Connecticut Engagement Photographer

This is Nikki & Jay! Nikki had initially gotten in touch with me during the summer of 2012, but she wasn’t entirely sure of their wedding date or location, so we lost touch for a bit. But she found me again in the spring of 2013 when they had nailed things down and I was luckily available for their date! We did their engagement session down in New Haven, Connecticut, around the Yale Campus. Nikki is a student there and we chose a few indoor/outdoor locations since our scheduled date was forecast to be rainy! We started off at the Marsh Botanical Garden — this ended up being a PERFECT spot for some lush, green nature in the midst of a cold fall day! Not to mention the fact that it was so WARM in there! We managed to get a few shots outside of the greenhouse, too, during a break in the showers. We then headed to Kroon Hall for some more modern indoor photos. We stopped by the Sterling Memorial Library for a bit and then finished at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, one of the coolest buildings I’ve ever seen. It was great to have so much variety in one shoot, and the Yale Campus is just STUNNING — it was a perfect backdrop for their love. 🙂