Engagement Shoot
If there’s one thing I could go back and do over when I got married, it’d be to do an engagement session together before our wedding. I strongly regret not doing this.
While we have beautiful photos that captured our wedding day, we don’t have professional quality photos that really show who we were as a couple at that stage of our lives. I wish we would have taken professional engagement photos in the places where we spent much of our time together while dating. If we had them, our children and grandchildren could have a better glimpse into our lives at that time and we could more easily look back and re-live the memories.
Not only do engagement photos capture joyful memories of who you are as a couple now, they allow you to create fun images for wall portraits, a wedding guest book and Thank You cards.
If we shoot early enough, I can also provide the images for your Save the Date cards and invitations. Images also add more to the story in your wedding album, capturing your story from your engagement to your wedding day. We’ll also travel if needed to get the photos you want.
Best of all, this is a fun time for you to get comfortable in front of the camera before your wedding day. Get to know how to take a great image and how well we work together so there are no surprises on your wedding day. With my relaxed and natural approach, you’ll soon realize how easy it is to be photographed by anyone.
Great engagement shoot ideas: Places where you spend lots of time together: You’ll look back at these photos in future years and smile thinking of all the lovely memories you created in these places.
At the place he proposed: After all, what better way to capture an engagement than the place it all started!
At your favourite restaurant: Meaningful memories happen with food, ambiance and your special song playing in the background.
Doing your favourite activity: You both enjoy playing checkers. What better way to capture your personality than in the heat of game play, the agony of defeat, or the comedy of contemplating your next move?
Where you first met each other: Whether your first meeting was a discussion at the library or fumbling for the door at the local coffee shop, going back to your beginnings is a marvellous memory.
Images with your pet: What better way to capture your new family than by including a beloved shared pet in your session?
Your favourite skyline: Your city is beautiful at any time of the year, and the skyline shares where you live now, a beautiful location that might change with time.
A downtown urban session: Fun and funky, pictures in alleyways or in otherwise undiscovered locations of your area make for a more intimate view of the city.
An amusement park: Nothing says fun like the Tilt-A-Whirl to go with your whirlwind romance.
A romantic beach: In the morning, evening or any time of day, the sea meets an endless sky for a feeling of forever.
At your favourite, cute coffee shop: Quirky and cozy, local mom and pop shops are a great way to take a quick break to refuel and to catch some local, architectural shots with you in the process.