The beginning of Billy Farrell, the cofounder and owner of photo agency BFA, and Bethanie Brady’s courtship sounds like the start of a rom-com. She hired him to shoot a gallery event she was hosting for the company she founded, BB/AM Bethanie Brady Artist Management, and the rest is history.
The two had been dating for two and a half years when Billy proposed on a family vacation in Vermont. How did the famed party photographer pop the question? He persuaded Bethanie to go with him on a sunset kayak on Lake Champlain before dinner. (Billy and his family have a camp there on the lake.) They paddled out to the nearest island, took in the sights, enjoyed a beer, and on the way back to the dock Billy capsized his boat on purpose. He pretended to be hurt in a ploy to get Bethanie to paddle closer to him. “For a second, I thought he was going to pull me in, too,” admits Bethanie. ”But he instead pulled out a ring and asked me to marry him, while family and friends watched from the shore!”
The couple was then engaged for two years. “I had never really imagined what my dream wedding would be,” explains Bethanie. “But I had a hard time picturing us having a traditional one. What we really wanted most of all was to bring all of our loved ones together for an enchanting, relaxing vacation weekend. I could see it all in my head, but several months into the engagement, I had yet to find the actual location—or any other components, for that matter.”
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