I do not get a call often to photograph a marriage proposal, but given it can be - no, is - as important as a wedding, I make sure things go as planned.

So I come in contact with Josh. Josh and Jaime are in a long distance relationship, he in North Carolina and she in Ohio, but will be rectifying that soon. So they decided to have a romantic weekend midway, which placed them in the Smokies.

But Josh wanted to use the opportunity to propose marriage. He and I discussed various spots, such as Cades Cove and Greenbrier. But in the course of the conversation, he kept coming back to one place: Grotto Falls. He wanted to propose next to a water fall in the Smokies, just for the sheer romance of it. Not that I blame him - the Smokies, especially in Autumn, is a magical place.

I had to give him some caveats, though. He was hoping for privacy but the second weekend with most families on Fall Break is NOT the time to look for solitude in the Gatlinburg area. Nonetheless, Josh wanted the waterfall and we agreed that was the spot.