Tony + Dana are Engaged! | BitGen Proposal

August 15, 2013 Tony + Dana are Engaged! | BitGen Proposal

I have to apologize, it’s been a super slow blogging week for me! I’ve been working hard on some stuff behind the scenes and I can’t wait to share it all with you in a few months!

This weekend was an awesome weekend for so many reasons! First, we found out that Blueberry Flanders will actually be named Cruz Flanders, as he’s a boy! Sunday morning, I had a family session with an adorable family who you may recognize if you were following my blog 2 years ago. I’ll share that session soon :)

However, the most amazing part of the weekend was being there to witness two amazing people become engaged! Tony and Dana are two of my favorite people in the world. My husband Steve and Tony have been best friends since they met in the 7th grade and we’ve loved Dana ever since we met her. These two couldn’t be more perfect for each other. While we were on vacation in the outerbanks we got an email from Tony saying that he was going to propose on August 10th and asked if we could be there. We had to move around some plans but OF COURSE we would be there! We wouldn’t miss this for the world.

Tony and Dana are very involved with Magfest, an annual Music and Gaming Festival that takes place each year at the National Harbor. On August 10th, Magfest held the 8th Annual BitGen Gamer Fest at Ram’s Head Live. Dana was very involved with the organization of the event, and it was to take place at Ram’s Head, a venue she’s worked at for years. Tony figured there was no better time or place to propose than at a place where she was surrounded by friends and coworkers who were practically family.

It was such a cool event! The bands were all performing nerdy gamer music, and there were consoles and arcades all over the venue, and people were relaxing and playing their favorite games, listening to awesome music. My favorite (and Dana’s favorite band!) was Knight of the Round, a band that did all Final Fantasy songs with a metal twist. (Little known fact, I’m a HUGE FF nerd.)

Let’s get to some photos:

Tony hard at work doing lights.

Knight of the Round, performing right before the big moment!

Dana was asked to bring towels out to the stage, and they recognized her and all of her hard work helping to put the event together!

… and then he starts to mention Tony…

… and how he wants to ask her something.

And she said YES!

Blog readers, there will be a lot more of these two to come on the blog in the next year or so! First, Baby Daughtry is due in October, so we’ll have some adorable babyness to share, and now also their engagement and wedding!

Tony + Dana, I love you guys so much and I’m so, so excited for you! Congratulations again!

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  • Natalie
    Posted at 07:33h, 15 August Reply

    Such a sweet and emotional moment – Beautifully captured!!

  • caitlin elizabeth
    Posted at 07:47h, 15 August Reply

    this is incredible!!

  • Nichols Portraits
    Posted at 07:58h, 15 August Reply

    Wow! What a moment! Amazingly captured!

  • Angela Snyder
    Posted at 09:35h, 15 August Reply

    So great when they want you to photograph this moment! Great work in crazy light haha..also I feel ya on the slow blogging, the past two weeks has been nuts.

  • Emilia Jane
    Posted at 10:10h, 15 August Reply

    Awwww that is so sweet!!

  • tPoz
    Posted at 10:13h, 15 August Reply

    goodness gracious – reading their story & seeing their emotions in the photos, and then an excellent proposal – totally got me choked up! awesome job capturing it!

  • Laura
    Posted at 11:29h, 15 August Reply

    Awww they are going to cherish these images forever! How sweet!

  • Dani
    Posted at 11:32h, 15 August Reply

    Obsessed. So awesome!! So glad you were there to capture all of this. I love the look on her face – definitely teary. Can’t wait to see more of them!!

  • Joanne Sisk
    Posted at 12:27h, 15 August Reply

    Made me cry! So happy for you Dana & Tony! Beautifully captured, Brea!

  • Alison Harper
    Posted at 12:54h, 15 August Reply

    Oh I just LOVE surprise engagement shots! This is so sweet, congrats to those two. What a sweet story.

  • Rachel Frazer Zillig
    Posted at 14:43h, 15 August Reply

    Ew stop. I’m crying at work now!

  • katie
    Posted at 15:23h, 15 August Reply

    How exciting!!!!! I love being a part of friends lives by doing something that I know they’ll cherish forever!! So excited for your friends!

    Also: there was a band while I was at school that played in basements that was gameboy versions of popular songs… kinda related to videogame music, and equally as cool ;)

  • Beth Shaw
    Posted at 18:15h, 15 August Reply

    I love Final Fantasy as well! What an awesome band name! Great propsal. Congrats to the happy couple!

  • Jennifer
    Posted at 05:10h, 16 August Reply

    So sweet! It’s so exciting that you were able to photograph their actual engagement!

  • Jackie Phillips
    Posted at 20:54h, 18 August Reply

    I love how surprised she looked! You can tell she had no idea it was coming!

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