La Factoria, Old San Juan Engagement Pictures

Kayla & Abraham

How I got to photograph this fun couple is an interesting story. My girlfriend Tessa and I had plans on going to the Dominican Republic with her family for New Years. We had the AirBNB but we had not yet bought the plane tickets. The day we were going to buy our tickets, literally that same day, I get an email from Kayla inquiring about wanting to do an engagement session while she and her fiance were visiting Puerto Rico from NYC. They were going to be in PR the week we were flying back to the states from DR.

I was really excited about doing their engagement session after reading all the nice things she said in her message but bummed that we were going to be flying back to the states. That’s when Tessa looked up plane tickets and realized that it would actually be cheaper to fly from DR to PR and then back to NYC than it would to just fly direct! So I replied to Kayla with the great news that I would be able to meet them in PR but that they would have to decide quickly because we were going to be buying our tickets that evening. She did not hesitate and booked right away! My heart was so happy! 😀

We met up with Kayla and Abraham at a very popular cocktail bar in Old San Juan, La Factoria, where they treated us to a couple of drinks to loosen up before the shoot. Since we were already there, I went ahead and took some pictures of them inside the bar as we finished our last drink.

We then proceeded to walk the colorful streets of San Juan, chasing the sunset light before it disappears. A few photo locations and an outfit change later, we had such a blast exploring San Juan with Kayla and Abraham! We had so much fun, laughed so much (the drinks helped), and by the end, I’m happy to say that it was one of the best engagement sessions I’d ever shot, not to mention the BEST way to start my 2020 season!

Thank you, Kayla and Abraham, so much! Cannot wait for the wedding day! 😉

THE ENGAGEMENT PICTURES

couple sitting together on the edge of a red holding cocktails at La Factoriacloseup of couple sitting together toasting and smiling at each other on red couchwide of couple laughing at each other on red couch at La Factoria cocktail barold San Juan street with many flags looking out from la factoria's windowcouple kissing and being intimate near open window in San Juan black and white, man kissing woman on forehead intimately next to open windowcouple kissing and being intimate leaning on open window, view from outside inwoman laughing with fiancé leaning on open windowclose up of couple's hands holding each other leaning on open windowcouple smiling and laughing standing in front of wooden door and pink houseclose up of couple standing together in front of wooden door holding hands smiling couple kissing with arms around each other in front of wooden door and pink housenumerous cats hanging out on the steps of a old San Juan housecouple walking holding hands passing a lime green San Juan housecouple walking holding hands and laughing as they pass a lime green wallcouple going down San Juan steps walking towards cameracouple laughing walking down stone steps and holding handscouple standing side by side holding hands in front of sky blue house with red flowerscoupe hugging in between two white windows with red flowers and light blue wallwoman behind man holding hands with the view of el Morro in the backgroundwoman behind man holding hands with view of el Morro in the backgroundcouple being intimate in front of stone wall with green leaves above themcouple holding each other and laughing in front of stone wall with green leaves above themman kissing woman on forehead in front of stone wall with green leaves above themcouple with arms completely around each other in front of weathered stone wallcouple facing each other laughing in front of weathered stone wallcouple sitting on el Morro stone wall arms around each otherwoman intimately sitting between man's legs both sitting on stone wallwoman intimately sitting between man's legs as he kisses her forehead woman sitting between man's legs both sitting on stone wall, she's kissing his cheek

While Kayla and Abraham where changing their outfits, I took some pictures of my queen Tessa 🙂
girl wearing a round hat, white dress and leopard vans holding a cameracouple wearing dark clothes dancing in front of stone wall with sunset colorscouple holding each other in front of stone wall during sunset lightingman hugging woman from behind, her smiling hard, in front of stone wall sunsetman hugging woman from behind in front of stone wall during sunsetman behind woman kissing each other in front of stone wall sunset lightcouple facing each other smiling her hands on his chest in front of stone wallcouple facing each other kissing her hands on his chest in front of stone wallcouple facing each other him kissing her on the cheek, she has a huge smilecouple walking up San Juan street holding hands smiling with sunset lightcouple passionately kissing each other he has one arm around her waistcouple facing each other, him kissing her on her cheek in front of green leaf wall

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