Engagement proposal on gondola

A few seconds before getting in the Gondola, in a moment while she was distracted by hanging on to her dress and getting on board, he quickly took me off and showing me a small box from his pocket he whispered to me “I’m giving this to her. Get ready!”. From that exact moment I started feeling excited (and nervous too!). Then I started shooting the first pictures between the canals and the bridges of Venice as in a normal couple shooting, but sometimes I was also spying on her from behind my camera and she seemed totally unaware of what was about to occur and I looked at him too and he looked so nervous and impatient, he was pretending to feel normal enjoying the panorama around him, but instead I could clearly feel his heart was about to explode. Sometimes we exchanged a brief glimpse of complicity: we had never seen each other before, we actually met just a few minutes before I started my work, but at that moment, there on that Gondola, we were the only two to know that a beautiful secret was going to be revealed and this made us friends somehow.
I use these words to tell what I’ve been experiencing two days ago when I met in person the two amazing people from Florida who contacted me a few months ago to book a couple photo shooting in Venice.
I let this photo tell the rest.
My job makes me a witness to such intimate and private moments of people I barely know the names of. I often find myself sharing something so important with these people that we will never forget, even though we will probably never meet again in life, those moments will be forever remembered only by the three of us. This reminds me why I love being a photographer and I’m so grateful to these people to let me enter their lives.