These engagement photos captured by Shannon Christopher are beyond lovely and were taken at historic Wormsloe Plantation in Savannah.

The couple, Sonia and Matthew, met in the summer of 2006 at the beach in Hilton Head, while they were both vacationing with friends.

Sonia shared with us the juicy details on the proposal, “We were vacationing with our families in Hilton Head for the week and on the last night we all decided to take one last walk on the beach. On our way down to the beach I joked with Matthew how pretty the stars were that night and how I couldn’t believe he didn’t have a ring with him on a night like that. I wanted to search for little crabs, so I was running around with a flashlight looking for them. Matthew said, ‘there’s one’. I turned quickly to look and Matthew pretended there was a crab by pointing with the ring on his finger. The rest is a little blurry, but luckily he had his mom ready with the camera to capture the moment. It was perfect.”

We love this engagement story, so romantic.

Congratulations Sonia and Matthew.