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12 Magical Disney Princesses Engagement Pics

From Cosmopolitan

Yalonda and Kayla Solseng, who got married Sept. 3, first bonded over their love of Once Upon a Time when they met 2 1/2 years ago. “That show rewrites fairytales and this was our modern-day fairytale,” Kayla told The Huffington Post, and it therefore inspired the theme for her and her now-wife’s June engagement shoot. Kayla dressed up as Belle and Yalonda was Cinderella, and the pictures, taken by Taylor Snyder of Taylor Snyder Art & Photography, were legit magic.

“Gay marriage has been legalized in the U.S. for over a year and we hardly have gay or lesbian characters in children’s movies ― let alone them being main characters,” Yalonda told Huff Post of the Glyndon, Minnesota, shoot: “Kids want to be the characters they grow up with but when none of the characters represent you, then you feel alone. I want our photos to be shown to kids and families as a way of saying it’s okay to be who you are. It’s okay to be with the person you love.”

That, and the fact that Kayla asked Yalonda if she’d “be [her] happily ever after” when she proposed. Help. (And see the photos below.)

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