For most guys, engagement plans are a nervous expedition into the unknown. So much so, that a bottle of wine and a evening in with a chick flick sounds a good option most of the time… Just in case it doesn’t quite go to plan. Not for Potter enthusiast Pete Evans though. He decided to create the most amazing experience for now fiancé Lucy Evans at the Harry Potter Studios. Something they both will never forget.

I first met both Lucy and Pete when they enquired about my services as their Kent wedding photographer. I instantly realised both had such fun personalities and it was going to be a real joy to photograph them on their wedding day. However it was their amazing engagement story that captured my imagination and I thought it needed to be shared.

Lucy and Pete met whilst working for a well known doughnut company. Lucy was based in cardiff and Pete in Bluewater, Kent. Lucy and Pete ended up in a new store opening in Bath, Pete being a trainer and Lucy just helping out. Their first encounter with each other was a little rocky. Pete being Lucy’s boss, actually told her off on their first meeting. But, friendship soon began and soon romance. Lucy says “I added him on Facebook and we started chatting.. I had to give him my number because he wouldn’t ask for it! About 3 week later he came to visit me in cardiff for 3 days and we’ve been inseparable since!

Pete being huge Harry Potter fan after falling in love with it during a hospital visit at the age of 10 said, “I love Harry Potter! I fell in love with it when I went in to hospital for a few weeks for a operation when I was 10. It was my escape into an exciting world from the scary ward I was on.”

When asked about the proposal, Pete said, “I really wanted to propose somewhere that was completely unusual, but also felt like I was safe. I knew I wanted to propose around her birthday but not on it, as it was her 21st. I organised loads of things in secret. At about the end of May, I got the ring and then had to plan a route to the proposal. Lucy had said to me she wanted pictures of it and she wanted to be ‘dressed up’ (maybe not in the literal sense), but I like to think outside the box. I wanted to to have a story behind the proposal and something to tell the grand children. So as she knew nothing of what was happening I had to get her up to Watford without her knowing where she was going with 2 harry potter robes and a wand. I knew I wanted to do it in either 1 of 3 main areas. The Great Hall, Diagon Alley or The statue of the castle. The great hall was the first thing we entered so I didn’t want Lucy to be flustered all the way round and not take any notice of the actual place. I decided against he castle as that is right at the end of there tour and I didn’t know if I would enjoy my journey around if I had to wait right till the end! Plus if I wimped out today, I knew I had plenty of back up locations in the week. The 2nd option being on the Tardis in cardiff”

After saying yes, Lucy said, “It made me feel very special and overwhelmed. By the time the proposal was over there were about 200 people watching!”

Pete gets down on one knee in Hogwarts with wand in hand!

It’s a yes! Lucy hugs Pete with inside Hogwarts with onlookers in the background.

Lucy and Pete will be married on 14/11/2014, with a ceremony at city praise centre and the reception in Old town hall gravesend. I will be documenting the day in pictures and a full blog post will be published a few weeks after the big day, so watch this space.

Check out Lucy and Pete’s Engagement Photography here

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