Engagement Photo Suggestions

View quoted message I will get my family’s opinion about on that but I don’t think us having an engagement party is necessary. My daughter went to school and got a degree in photography but only does the occasional wedding and such. She said she’d do our engagement photos. But she’s will be in the wedding party so she doesn’t want to shot the wedding. She has lots of friends though that could do it. So hopefully they won’t charge much. That’s great that he included it in your package. Thanks for taking the time to chat with me.

View quoted message We didnt have an engagement party at all... Just didnt feel it was nessessary. And we waited almost 1 full year before engagement photos... Only because we werent planning on doing engagement photos until our photographer booked them complimentary with our wedding package.

How soon after becoming engaged should you do your engagement photos. And do you have to have an engagement party? My wedding is almost all just immediate family and they all know we are engaged.

we just had ours last weekend , the snow makes for adorable pictures , if you are doing them during the winter ! Some of my favourites were of us skating, or cuddled up with a blanket and mugs with our date on them! We got a sneek peek and this is my favourite one so far.

My favourite from our sneek peek

For the outdoor ones you are going to want to get them done first thing in the morning when the sun is fresh in the sky. It makes a huge difference, ours were taken at 8am and you can tell which ones were done earlier vs around 9am. It is worth the early morning!
Our photographer was great, she kept snapping photos constantly so she got some really nice candid poses and it really helped to show our personalities

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I love these, especially your face in the second one Maegan! I am the same way - I don't have a nice picture of me trying on my wedding dress because I'm also a face maker... I tried my best to keep the faces at a minimum (it was hard) and the smiles at a maximum so we'll see

View quoted message Thanks a lot! See? It’s all about having fun and incorporating you instead of just posing

Of course I bet you’ll be more than fine

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These are really cute Holly! So we had our pictures earlier this week and I think they went okay. You're right - it's really hard to act natural when there's a camera pointed at you but hopefully she got a few good ones.

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I love the handstand freezes!

View quoted message Agree here, incorporate something that is “you” and have fun with it. We did not get any suggestions from the photographer so we spent most of the time making sure that we got some good pictures. And when we made sure that something presentable came out of this, we did a signature move for both of us; handstand freezes!

We did outdoor photos on a gloomy day. But the photos turned out amazing. I had to have a picture with my cowgirl boots and ring. We had 2 people doing our photos. One held the lighting to help with the gloomy. We have more where they actually got my FH to genuinely laugh!! PS he hates his photo taken.

Have fun with it!

Haven't done ours yet but I love the ones where couples bring in personal items. Something that shows off who they are as a couple, something they like doing together, a hobby. For us, our plan is to wear our favourite team's hockey jerseys (we cheer for different teams) for a few pictures.

Trust your photographer! Sometimes they will pose you in wierd ways that feel super awkward and unnatural but the photo comes out super cute

Have fun with it! My photographer had us laughing most the time and caught our natural smiles instead of our "posed" smiles and it made a world of difference.

Also i am the most awkward person to photograph (when she said 'act natural' my instinct was to make a stupid face and curl my hands into little raptor claws lol) so it goes to show a good photgrapher can make anyone look good!

We did outdoor winter photos at our citys Christmas lights display, these are a couple of my favourites. My fiance and I are not the best in front of the camera, we just don't naturally take photos well and I always feel so posed. So I suggest that you just relax and have fun, do what the photographer suggests as well as throw in byour own ideas. As for your outdoor ones you can never go wrong with on the street photos, get the buildings in the background