While we love sharing beautiful inspiration on Merci New York, the absolute favorite part of our job is sharing wonderful love stories. The kind of love stories that melt your heart; that make you feel warm and fuzzy; and in today’s case, the kind that reached us by way of a sweet morning email… take a peek. My name is Mohan and my fiancee Holiday is a daily reader of your blog – she loves it and I can’t tell you how many emails I get from her with links for me to see something on Merci New York… … We live in the Lower East Side (Manhattan) and Holiday is currently getting her Masters degree from New School, while I am working (for the man!). As part of her graduate program, Holiday has been away working in Kosovo (yes, that Kosovoa in Europe) since May 28th. It has been 61 days and I miss her terribly! I thought it would be a great way to surprise her if she saw our pics on your blog! She’s coming back in a few weeks from Kosovo and we are getting married in November in Florida. I haven’t seen her in 2 months now (well, besides our daily Skype’ing)… I’ve attached some pics and the link to our photographer’s site ( Photo Pink , out of Williamsburg). Thanks for listening,
Needless to say, Mohan, we are honored to share your beautiful engagement shoot! {And Holiday, we think you have a keeper on your hands}…
All our best wishes for a wonderful wedding,
Jacqueline & Amélie
From the photographers at Photo Pink:
There are oh-so-many reasons why Holiday and Mohan are incredibly cool. First off, they met at a Daft Punk concert. Secondly, their first date was going to an amateur boxing match. Thirdly {and lastly, although there are countless more reasons why they’re cool} is that they came up with the most creative engagement session we’ve had to date.
We started in Williamsburg by the industrial and graffiti covered warehouses. Holiday and Mohan brought two red balloons and the contrast of the red against the bleak buildings was amazing.
Next we drove down to Coney Island where we walked around the awesome strangeness that is the boardwalk and took more balloon pictures before giving them away to some cute kids.
After walking on the beach and eating some tasty carnival food we were off to Chinatown. There is an amazing alley in Chinatown covered in posts with little fringes of phone numbers that flutter in the wind. It’s one of my favorite places in NYC and I was so excited that they knew it too and wanted to shoot there. It was an excellent spot for photos. We wandered around Chinatown for a bit longer and ended the day back in Williamsburg after sunset.
All photos via Photo Pink .
