We are getting serious ink envy when it comes to this love shoot of Liam and Fiona (and of course a big old bit of love envy too) we are racking up in the tat images in our pinterest in anticipation of doing some perma-etching on our skin (sorry mum – we did say that we weren’t going to do anymore – but we lied mwahhahahaha).

The reason for the ink envy is that this is a gorgeous tattoo engagement – tattooing your engagement date is super commitment, true devoted commitment. So, we salute Fiona on her ninjaness in getting inked up, plus doing that on camera, plus smiling through it! (But, to be fair on the pain list tats are not that bad!)

And apart from the ink loveliness – there is time for cake, bikes, park greenery, a barbecue and a picnic – talk about packing in all the good stuff.  So, a mega salute to the talented tog that is Laura Babb, and congrats to the gorgeous couple Liam and Fiona – let shutter candy commence!

Late addition! – words from the groom to be!

Good morning, good afternoon and good evening, just to cover all the time zones. This is my first blog post I have written, I will try my best so be nice.

Fiona and I have been together for about a year and a half, and in January this year we decided that we would like to get married. I say “we decided” as before meeting each other marriage really wasn’t on the cards or in the thoughts of either of us.

The decision to get married was the easy bit… I then had to plan and pull off the proposal. Funny way round of doing things I know but I really wanted to ask Fiona to marry me properly. I decided to cook Beef Wellington, the dish I cooked on our first proper date as she had mentioned it was her favourite.

Date night was on, the Wellington was in the oven, the wine was on the table, all was going well. Trying not to show I was feeling a little nervous as I had never asked anyone such a big question before, I served dinner. We had just started eating I had moved the vintage family ring from my pocket into my hand then some words from Fiona that I really didn’t want to hear “If you’re not going to propose tonight you’re going to find it

hard to top this”.

Well that certainly took the element of surprise out of the evening. I tried to regain some

composure, managed to get down onto one knee before the tears started “Will you make me happy for the rest of my life? Fiona McRobie will you marry me?” then the best word said with tears running down her face “Yes”.

We decided to have a pre and post wedding shoot as Laura Babb, the photographer we wanted to work with. is unable to make it up to Grimsby for our wedding, and also we get some cool photo’s to show everyone before we head up north.

For the engagement shoot we headed over to Brockwell park on a Sunday morning as we both like the park and we could have a play on the bikes too. It just so happened that we had planned to go to our friends in the afternoon for a bbq and tattoo party so we rolled the whole day into one big pre wedding photo shoot, and I think it worked really well and was a very fun day.

Before our shoot with Laura, I did start by poking a little bit of fun at some engagement photos that I’d seen… Fiona’s shown me lots!  But after meeting Laura and having lots of fun in the park having our pictures taken…I’ve decided they are kind of cool.

Thanks for reading, Liam

The photographic glory goes to: Laura Babb Photography