It’s a season of wedding planning craziness, you might feel like the last thing on your mind is scheduling a professional engagement session. You got a few shots right after the proposal. Those will work well enough, right?
We might be a little biased, but we truly believe that your engagement session will be one of the highlights of your engagement memories! In the blur of our own engagement, the two experiences that I remember the most vividly are the engagement session and creating our gift registry. But the story on who got to hold the little scanning gun the entire time in every story is a blog post for another time….
1. You’ll discover that your engagement pictures will be priceless to you. Wedding pictures are absolutely amazing, don’t get us wrong, but your engagement pictures will really help you remember how you felt and what your relationship was at this time in your lives. It’s a special time of its own that deserves to be documented intentionally.
Engagement images are timeless. You get to choose one or two outfits that bring out your unique style and choose ANY location you want! Is meandering through an estate garden in a flowing dress and holding his hand something you’ve always seen in magazines but never imagined could happen to you? Does kissing under the Spanish moss draped historic streets of Savannah feel like a dream come true? Now’s your chance to create a session that feels like stepping into a real-life fairy tale!
Is Spanish moss, estates of England, or majestic Rocky Mountains not for you? That’s okay! There will be lots of options just out your back door that will be just as meaningful. :)
2. You’ll create a connection with your wedding photographer that will become magical when the wedding day arrives! We’re huge fans of having your engagement session with the photographer who will be photographing your wedding. We love all of our J&A Couples from day one, but the engagement session is really where we leave feeling like friends. We’ve been able to spend an entire evening with our couple – getting to know them on a deeper level, hearing more about their lives and their relationship.
3. The engagement session is a chance for you to get comfortable in front of the camera. You’ll learn how it feels to be in front of your photographer’s camera and how they work through posing and interaction. Your photographer will be able to see how you interact together, what you’re comfortable with, and what your best poses are. When the wedding day comes, you’ll feel like an old pro in front of the camera! You’ll know exactly what to expect and how to pose because you’ve practiced this all before! :)
Bonus reason you’ll love having a professional engagement session: you’ll have engagement images that match your wedding portraits! Your photographer has a distinct style, and it’s beautiful to have that consistent style running through your entire engagement/wedding experience.
We hope this helped answer some of your engagement session questions! The engagement session is one of the best experiences during this exciting time in your lives, and we love creating that for our couples! <3
*hugs*
Amber
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