Cynthia + Ryan :: Fun Fair (Edmonton, AB)

Words by Maureen Young

Cynthia + Ryan first met in elementary but it wasn’t a sandbox romance.  It was 12 years later, when they were playing a murder mystery game at a friend’s house that Cynthia was given the task to find someone to marry her and asked Ryan.  Neither thought anything and it was later, when they discovered they had a shared love of gaming, rather than a playful ‘marry me’ that sparked their love story.  To celebrate their love of games, we started their engagement shoot on the midway for some real-life gaming.

We kept the Ferris Wheel to the end as it was definitely looking like it was a 1920s relic.  Rina was meant to go on the ride with Cynthia + Ryan but begged off deciding that motion sickness didn’t really go with taking engagement pictures.  Anthony was quick to jump on the ride in her stead and given how Ryan was furiously shaking the basket so it almost flipped (poor Cynthia!), definitely a good thing it wasn’t Rina!

Fish in the pond stayed true to its marketing and was Ryan’s way to win his girl a prize.  The heat of the day meant that the Japanese fan came in handy, more so than the dice & finger trap ;).

From midway to mid-campus, we went from a shared love of gaming to Ryan’s love of books and architecture and Cynthia’s love of supernatural love (i.e. Twilight) as our inspiration.  It was a great opportunity to laugh & run around, or in Ryan’s case, running away from the spiders (there were a LOT of bugs out that day!).

The evening light filtering through the clouds was perfect.  We wrapped up a day of romantic fun playing by the water :).

Cynthia + Ryan, it was great spending the day with you!  Looking forward to shooting your big day at the end of July.  In the meantime, have fun playing World of Warcraft and Starcraft. :O)

Love. You. Always.

A+R