What a cute, fun set!!! And the processing rocks, too! Glad I stopped by to see your work. :) 9:28 am

THAT'S MAAHHH BOYYYYY!!! They are absolutely beautiful together. THANKS, Ms.Bunn, for capturing the essence... (DaeDae's mom) 11:36 am

What an adorable couple! Absolutely love the "patty cake" moment! I'm bummed that I couldn't make it to this session, but I'm sure there will be plenty more down the road... Great job, MsB! ;) 4:33 pm

WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! You have no idea how many compliments I've gotten on these pictures. They are amazing. Everyone has said you have some mad photography skills and wonder how you got all these shots at the right moment. haha. Cant wait to see the rest! Thanks! 4:26 pm

So, this is my version of how Daniel and I ended up together. Daniel and I were 16-years-old when we both applied at Banana Republic for seasonal positions. We were babies! I'd talked to him a few times beforehand, and hastily came to the conclusion that he was the most arrogant and immature guy I've ever met! And to defy his behavior I acted snobby and cynical towards him. After the holidays we both went our separate ways. We dated other people, made new friends, got different jobs, and life went on. Roughly three years later we got in touch again, and said "we should hang out sometime." You know that phrase, you either act upon it right away, or you will never get around to it. Well the phrase holds true because we never did call each other up to hang out until months later when I had nothing to do (haha). I'm scrolling through my phone book and when I get to the D's, Daniel was right underneath my fingertips. I don't know what made me do it, but I relay a text to him, telling him we should catch up on lost time. I didn't expect a response. My, my, what a pleasant surprise! Daniel texts back and agrees to hang out. My first reaction when I saw him again for the first time in years was, "Wow, he looks good." But it was strictly platonic and we didn't expect anything to develop. I figure we would move on with our lives and I'd see Daniel the next time we both got around to it... Well, next time got around quicker than I thought. The following night, actually. I'm hanging out with my girls, Daniel's hanging out with his guys. Typical Friday night. He sends me a text, asking me if there were any parties I knew of. The party I was at was whack, and he invited me to hang out with him and his friends. I was down for meeting new people, so I agreed. I ended up driving out into the BOONIES, completely in the dark as even the city lights disappeared and were soon replaced by rows of trees and miles of land. I thought in my head, "I am going to kill this guy for dragging me out to the middle of nowhere!" Unless some crazy axe murderer got to me first! It took nearly an hour for me to find my way there, but witnessing Daniel's smile and his welcoming embrace made me float on clouds. But I kept telling myself, "Strictly platonic, strictly platonic." I was pushing him away, I didn't want to get involved, my impressions of him three years ago were still lingering, but I could sense that he was a different person. He's grown up, he's charming, he's sweet, he's handsome, he's taller, he's more independent... and I was captured. I left shortly, even though I wish I would just get over myself and stay. Well, the only path I knew how to get out had been blocked by police cars and fire crackers... What gives, right? I asked the police officer for directions, and ended up getting even more lost. It was probably 1AM and I was in the middle of nowhere. Daniel tells me to come back and he'd direct me home. In the car, I could feel a force between us. It was strong, magnetic, and intense. I just wanted to reach over and grab a hold of his hand and spill my heart out to him. But, again I refrained from acting out such love-puppy behavior. I had to hold composure and could not show him I was vulnerable. We pass by a park and thought it'd be fun to go on the slides. I think my barriers were starting to break down, and I was giving in to my feelings. I only wanted to be outside in the blistering cold at a random park because I didn't want the night to end. In my heart I DID want something to develop between us. Well, that was where we exchanged our first kiss. Now every time we pass by that quaint little park, we smile. We laugh. We remember. The night before we hung out, Daniel had prayed to God to bless him with someone to love. He tells me I am the girl from his prayers. He believes I'm an angel. Now this bad boy doesn't have angel wings himself, but you betcha he's helped me surpass struggle and to perceive life from a completely different light, just like he led me out of the boonies that one night (haha). I’ve never been with anyone I was completely and whole heartedly in love with before Daniel, and I sure don’t hold back anymore. He gets to know I love him every waking moment of the day! 11:53 pm

"So here's my story of how my boyfriend and I, of three years, met... "The girls and I went to Voodoo Friday, February 25, 2005, (I'll never forget that date), even though it wasn't my favorite place. I was getting bored so I dragged my friend Linda around to the Ohm side and we started to scout for some cute boys. Linda looked over to the dance floor and pointed to some tall white guy and says... "Linda: Hey, that guy is kind of cute. Me: Where? Oh, yeah I guess. Do you want to talk to him? I'll go talk to him for you. Linda: Aaahhhh! No. Don't to that. Me: Haha... I'll be right back. "I walk over to the guy and tug on his arm. He's dancing with some girl, but I tug on his arm again anyway. He looks at me and then I ask him to come with me. He actually leaves the girl and walks with me. I then say... "Me: My friend thinks you're cute. Guy: Wait, is this some kind of set up? [He starts to turn away, so I grab him again and say...] Me: Um, I think you're cute too. Guy: So you want to dance or what? [I turn around to look for Linda and the other girls. I see them all smiling and so I decide one dance won't hurt.] Me: Sure. "We then dance for what seems to be hours, then we kiss and I feel like everything is just so right. I gave him my number and he called me the next day, and we've been together ever since. It's not the most romantic story. I, too, am not an overly romantic person, but it's still a great story. I need to thank Linda for letting me dance with him." :) 5:27 pm

"I told my boyfriend about the contest; we read through the other stories and said to each other, "Yeah, theirs is wayyy better than ours. Lets not even try." We were both sad, too, because we both hyped each other up about having you take our pictures — especially, when I showed him euy-Jen's pictures of her and her husband — when we wanted to take our one-year anniversary pictures. I went home and called him up after the decision of not entering. I said, "Let's reminisce on how we met." After talking on the phone for nearly two hours, laughing and smiling about all our memories, we decided to give it a shot. So, here it is: "At the time, my current boyfriend had left me to go to Seattle with his ex-girlfriend, not knowing i knew alllll about it. Some part of me was hurt, but more of me was careless. In an attempt to relieve my stress, my best friend at the time invited me out that same exact night that the "current at the time" boyfriend had left to Seattle. I hesitated, not wanting myself to get into any trouble, but my friend demanded I go out. "Her boyfriend, Tomas, picked me up, and on the drive to pick up his friend, he questioned me about my current relationship. When I had told him I was falling out of the relationship and didn't want anything to do with it, he gladly said, "You remember David from high school?" I told him no, because I wasn't so social back in high school. Then he smiled and replied, "well, he's coming along, too." In my head, with hesitation, I was like, "What did I get myself in to." "As we waited in the basement of Lloyd Center, for my best friend to get off of work, David rolled through. The boys chitchatted while I stood near the door for my friend (not noticing who David was yet) when Tomas yelled my name and told me to go over. I looked over my shoulder and saw a tall — and I mean tall (6'5") — "koun dum." haha. I smiled and said hi, thinking in my head, "Man, good thing he's never liked me." (Since we had French class together and I was always PMS-ing.) :( Glad that I wouldn't have to be nice to him throughout the night. "So all four of us head out to a party. My best friend, Lisa, was texting me while we were in the backseat next to each other and said, "Wouldn't that be cool if you hooked up with David?! Then we could double date together." (With the fact that Tomas and David are best friends and Lisa and I were also.) I laughed and texted her back, "Yeah, right! Never." "We get to the party and it was lame. I'm standing around randomly introducing myself to the people there. About 20 minutes passes by and Lisa calls me over to her and David. They ask, "What would you do if you were in a relationship and your feelings haven't been in it for the past month?" The straight-forward person that I am, I told them, "Shoot! Break up with the person. Why waste your time? If you don't do it now, then it's going to be harder in the long-run." Later finding out that David did not like the relationship and the person that he was in it with. "We leave the party. Throughout the ride back to pick up Tomas' car at Lloyd Center, I notice David looking in his rear view mirror glancing at me here and there, but we never spoke a word to each other. We get to Lloyd Center and I'm told that I'm going home with David. I was so mad because I didn't even agree to it. David said, "What's wrong? Is it because I'm black?" I rolled my eyes and said, "Fine. I live on [blah-blah-blah]." As we're driving [note that he's taking his time and taking the longest way possible to my house] he tries to start conversations with me. As stuck-up as I was, he still tried and somehow, he got answers out of me. Out of the blue, he said, "A beautiful girl like you deserves much, much more. You deserve everything." He made me blush, but I looked away from him. But, I could see he was smiling, too. Throughout the ride, we conversated about how we BOTH should get out of our relationships soon because we deserve happiness. "We get to my driveway and it was the most awkwardest moment ever. We sat there on pause for like five minutes. I finally said, "Well, thanks for the ride. Good luck." As I was about to shut my door, he stopped me and said, "Hey, we should kick it sometime again." I tried to cut conversation short and said, "OK. Talk to you later." He laughed and asked for my number. I didn't want to give it to him in the first place but, heck, why not. "He drove off and an hour later I get a text reading "Help me." He left my house and actually took my advice and went to go end things with his girlfriend. I was shocked and didn't know what to do. I didn't want to be the one to blame for it. I didn't want to be no homewrecker. I talked through it with him through text message as he was in the process of breaking up with her. He was hesitant, not wanting to hurt her feelings, but knew he needed to do it for himself. I told him, "If you go through with it and find yourself satisfied and relieved with your decision, I'll treat you with ice cream." He called me half an hour later and said, "Baskin Robins on Wednesday." I laughed and went back to sleep. (It was a Monday night at 3AM!) "He texted me the next day; we had casual text messaging. Wednesday (two days later), I find myself looking to him for support. I finally have the strength to break up with my boyfriend. As hurt as I was and a man of my words, I still stuck to my promise of ice cream. It was 9:00 at night and I called him up and told him I'd be ready in 10 minutes so head on by. I threw on some jeans and a black tee, nothing special at all. Thirty minutes passes by and I'm like WTF?! He finally rolls up and knocks on my door. I open it and the butterflies were going haywire. He looked gooooooddd! haha. He got all dressed up and smelled good for our "ice cream" date. Baskin Robin ended up being closed. We spent an hour driving (slowly) around downtown trying to find a spot to eat. (And, remember, we're just friends at the time.) But, really it was his excuse to get to know me. During that hour, we found out each other's deepest secrets, our life stories — we connected like glue. We ended up hitting up Montage. Our first experience of frog legs were spent together. "For a month — STRAIGHT! — we saw each other everyday, even if it was for an hour, we saw each other. I swear on everything, my cheeks were sore each of those 30 days. I have never smiled and laughed that much ever in my life. I remember brushing my teeth and having my cheeks being so sore. And, still, we were just seeing each other as friends. "Though, the end of the first week of hanging out, he was introduced to my brother. Now, you know my brother, he's kind of — or should I say, is crazy. And to add, he has a little sister he has to protect. Get the picture now? haha. Well, my brother and I were having problems, and David ended up having to drive me to go see him. My brother interrogated him like he knew where Osama was. He straight up said, "You tryna' holler at my sister?!? You better not or else..." David was scared. And, I think that was why we stayed friends for that long. "Two months passes by and we've both met each other's family. On August 26th, two months of meeting each other, he asks me if I'd take an offer of being his girlfriend, and of course, with no hesitation I took it. Ever since the day he met my brother, everyone from my mom to Nava loves him to death! Funny thing, Nava, Ming and my brother call and talk to David more than they talk to me. Truthfully-speaking, too!" :( 11:29 am

"As cliché as it sounds... I met the man of my dreams (and the one that I will marry in August) on Match.com. "We had both been registered on Match.com for sometime, with no luck. One Saturday, he emailed me and said something along the lines of, "Hey, it looks like we have a lot in common, my subscription expires soon, so here is my email address." I didn't email him back... so he was persistent and emailed again. This time I replied. We emailed back and forth and spent hours on the phone before we met for dinner one fateful May night. Dinner went well so we continued the night with drinks and then a second for lunch on Sunday. I knew from that lunch date this relationship was going to be magical. Approximately one month after dating, I knew that I wanted to marry him. On November 19, 2007, after a year and a half, he proposed to me in our living room. I cried so much that I forgot to say yes, he had to ask twice! Thanks you!" 3:04 pm

First blind date ends in a happily ever after... One afternoon while Darrin was making business calls he came across my name and number circled on the top his contact sheet. After six months of many attempts to get us together by a friend and his mother, Darrin decided what the heck, and called me at work. Hopeful that I wouldn't be a classic example of what his mother might think would be a right fit. Returning from lunch, I checked my voicemail; the whole time I'm listening to his message, I'm thinking this guy sounds HOT!!! Giddy like a school girl, I made my friends listen to the message and I asked each & every one of them, doesn't he sound hot?!? Surprisingly, they said yes too. I nervously returned his call and we made plans to meet two nights later at Vibe. Of course, we exchanged what we looked like. Thursday night is here, we're both late, I scoped out the restaurant. I noticed a blonde hair guy that didn't seem to be my type. This guy had blonde hair, wearing a leather jacket and sweater, and accessorizing with a lot of jewelry...sort of how Darrin described his looks, but without the jewelry. Funny thing, this guy walked in at the same time as a lady who had similar characteristics as myself. Darrin saw her and thought; shoot, it's a mother's vision of a nice girl for her son, not his idea. Slipping in his seat and thinking the whole time of how do I get out of this. As I headed towards the exit I had an idea; I'll ring Darrin, if jewelry-guy answers then I'm one foot out the door and gone with an excuse at the ready. I took cover from behind a large tree at the restaurant and made the call. As Darrin answered my call, I noticed him on the spot...Hellooooo Handsome!!! Still on the phone with Darrin, I peeked out from behind the tree and said hello. Darrin gave me a big smile and laughed. We were so engaged with each other we never touched our three-course dinner. During our first date (yes, we both were on our first blind date ever), I thought this is the guy for me. We ended our date with a hug. And I tell you, I felt so safe in his arms I didn't want him to let me go. After three years of dating and many memorable moments, Darrin proposed. The following December we flew to Kauai, with a rainbow over us and our parents, his brother & my daughter at our sides, we exchanged our vows on the romantic beach of Kauai. We now have three beautiful daughters. Our lives are filled with much love and laughter! To this day, Darrin still makes my face light up as he did on our first date! XoxoxoxoxoxoX 10:22 am

Fate One night this lost girl was sitting at a lonely bar stool thinking about her life and all the things she had done so wrong. A drink to wash the sorrow away! People passing with a glance not knowing what was going on inside. She had just made the hardest decision in her life and from the outside you would never know. A tall man appeared behind her telling her to "go home" and being ready to leave she got up and went with him. Opening the doors from behind her came a force she was not ready for. This man {her man} pushed her down the stairs of the bar from behind. In complete shock and disarray she turned to him and said, "I cant believe you just did that." This man had been her shoulder, her friend, her rock and had known her past abuse enthralled upon her. The look in his face was one she had never seen, all because she didn't meet him at another bar and asked him to come there instead. What happened following would change her life forever. He threw her around that parking lot like a rag doll, slamming her against a fence, choking her 'til she saw no light. All the while saying, "This is how your ex did it, didnt he, you like that." "You want me to beat you like he did." She was screaming for someone to help her while at least 20 men watched him continue to choke and throw her around. The parking lot was angled and was very hard for her to gain grip because of her heels. Clinging to her cell phone, afraid to lose anything that may help her. He continued to push her towards the car, telling her to, "Go home, we will finish this there." She knew all she had to do was make it to those bar doors and she would be safe. He was so strong and every move she made he pushed her farther and farther from her destiny. One point she got so close and grabbed the railing by the door just as his friend stepped in to help throw her away from getting help. Just then a man steppped out those doors and saved her life. One man is all it took, he said, "Let her go." As the girl's man said, "She's drunk; she's my fiance, and I want to take her home." This superman being smarter than that said, "She doesn't want to go with you, and if you want to beat on someone, beat on me." This superman's brother urged him to stay out of it and just leave, but he didn't. He stepped in front of the girl just as the abusing man's friend pulled a gun. With a gun to this superman's face he didnt back down, he blocked this girl and made her able to get to the door safely. Frantic she ran inside grabbing all the men she could find, and a local cop. Without thinking if this man was still alive. When everyone exited the building all the men were gone. The one who saved this girl was no where to be found to thank. She stayed there while the police came and took pictures of the strangulation bruises covering her neck, which he would never do time for. One night, two and a half years later and lonely she called a chat line. Yes, a chat line. Thinking that hearing another voice on the other end would help her get through a lonely night. She talked to one man, for over 40 hours in one week 'til she decided she would put her guard down and meet him. For 15 minutes, which she stuck to. When she left that Shari's she knew she liked who the man was, something drew her to him. The next time she asked him to meet her at that fateful bar. She knew everyone there and knew she would be safe. They sat down drinks in hand and the conversations that changed her life happened. He told her, "He hated that bar because he almost got killed there trying to save a girl." She said, "What did she look like?" He followed with, "She was short, with blonde hair and these eyes I cant describe." She looked at him and he said, "IT WAS YOU — WASNT IT?" That moment fate had stepped in and she knew she had the chance to thank him for truly saving her life that night. They sat there comparing stories trying to explain to themselves how two and a half years later they would meet. In shock, they couldn't believe it, with goosebumps covering their bodies. An experience she had never had. This man was meant to come into her life and he did. This man was her fate... whether it was for anything more than to save her, he was. She can never respect any man more than this man and her own father. Her life is forever changed and the belief of fate and a higher power will always be there! We met {again} September 12, 2003, and the rest is history! Whether romantic or not, it is my story!!! --Shannon 1:25 pm

HEY! I would love to enter but my husband does not like taking photos. But, Good Luck to all the contestants! You take great photos! :D 10:35 pm

I met Doug through mutual friends one lonely ladies night out (Oct. 26, 1988) at a bar in Mississauga, ON, Canada. We had a brief separation after we first met, due to the fact he was a pro athlete, he was out of town, and I had forgotten. I fell in love with him that night, and I have never looked back … so, 19 years, two kids, two countries, and a second career, I love him just as I did that night on the dance floor! Who would have known this would all be so awesome so many years later?! Do you believe in love at first sight? I do!!! 3:16 pm

@Dawn: haha! Girl, you are so silly! You win an award for cracking me up this morning! Thanks for the post -- it brings back memories of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico! Man, that was a cool joint. I had the best tan there. I gotta go back!!! But, I'll go visit you in NY first! I promise!!! 8:55 am

Romance Me Contest: I met Pierre when I was a sophmore in highschool. We were both attending summer school at Lincoln. We "went out" but broke up a few months later. I was crushed when we broke up. I made a wish that one day we would be back together. 12 years later, I wake up from the craziest dream. I dreamt that I was at Pierre's HS basketball game watching him as if we were still in highschool. For 2 nights I dreamt about him even though I haven't seen him for so long. So I decided to give him a call and we've been together since. Now we've been together for over 3 years and we have a beautiful son...all because of a wish and a dream. 12:56 pm