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Rafal & Dee

The thing I love most about engagement sessions is just how happy a couple is in them and then there’s the laughter, the giggles and the downright beautiful expressions of love. How can anything about that be anything less than inspiring? Rafal and Dee headed to the stunning Abbotsford Convent with photographer Elleni Toumpas Photography to capture their story. The couple met over a love of travel in Year 11 Geography class!

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My favourite part is always to read what a couple love about each other. Rafal and Dee note, “His kind heart and thoughtful nature. Her beautiful smile.”

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One of the couple’s funniest relationship stories involves being stranded on a desert island! They tell, “The time we were stranded on a remote island in Fiji when a cyclone swept through. No water supply, no bottled water only Bacardi. We did what anyone else would do to get through and drank it as if it was water!”

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The proposal happened at the bride to be’s favourite place. “The timing was just right having been together for eight years. He proposed on a typical hot summer’s day at gorgeous Cape Schank. One of our fave spots to visit in Victoria.”

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