Frozen Engagement Session

I scheduled an engagement session with my brother in law and his fiancee without knowing that our desired location was closed due to snow, so you can imagine our panic when we arrived and were greeted by a large NO TRESPASSING sign. And I definitely spotted another trio with an engagement ring and a DSLR heading in there anyway. So the temptation was there, but turns out I'm a total prude, so I just couldn't do it. But then the miracle happened:

Turns out these two had dreamed of taken these pictures on the beach (she's from CA), but Utah in the winter isn't very conducive to beach photos. Unless you decide that a frozen beach in a deep inversion is still viable. In which case Utah is perfectly obliging. So on this freezing day, with a heavy fog of polluted air trapped by the cold and the mountains (thanks Utah), when all of the odds seemed against pretty pictures, we got some magical shots on a beach by a frozen over lake. Life tends to work out.