Our story begins a little over two years ago, shortly after I crossed over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. I moved to Virginia from New York in May of 2013. I got a job at Chix Sea Grille and Bar at the Oceanfront... where I just happened to meet Lee.
Earlier this year, we were about to celebrate our two year anniversary, and I thought it would be really nice to have a couple's photo session for our anniversary gift to each other. Lee is a professional fisherman, and one of the guys he fishes with has a wife who is a professional photographer. I have seen her work before, and I thought she would be perfect to do the photo session for us. I had been preparing for this photo session for weeks but little did I know, Lee had as well.
He hid the ring in one of his tackle boxes in our garage, knowing I would never look in there. Throughout our whole shoot, I had a chalkboard fish that I was holding which read, "He's hooked." When it was coming towards the end of our photo session and we went to our final location-- under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel which is where Lee fishes a lot.
The beach under the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel became the setting of a memory I will never forget. Kam had set me up to have my back towards Lee while looking at the ocean. I thought this was an odd shot because I was not looking at Lee. But when I didn't hear her camera go off, I was wondering what was going on. I turned around, and Lee was down on one knee with a black box in his hand. He had a big smile on his face and he asked me to marry him. I started to cry and everything else around me had faded.
Years ago, I crossed over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel looking for a fresh start for my life but I never expected that the love of my life would one day propose to me underneath it.
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Photography: Kam Goodrich Photography // Submitted via Two Bright Lights
