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Joey
WeddingWire Admin May 2015 Maryland

How long before the wedding did you take engagement photos?

Joey, on March 5, 2018 at 08:55 Posted in Plan a wedding 0 29

I want to ask you about your wedding planning timeline - I'm curious to know how long before the wedding you crossed various planning tasks off your to-do list, or when you're planning to have the tasks finished. So play along to have some fun comparing timelines, while sharing your advice with those who are still building their own!

How long before the wedding did you have an engagement photo shoot? Did you pick the date because you wanted to capture a certain season in your photos?

How long before the wedding did you take engagement photos? 1

Photo by Ian Sebastian Beaulieu in Surrey

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29 Comments

Latest activity by Vinod, on December 24, 2018 at 23:12
  • Vinod
    Top August 2017 Ontario
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    September 16' is when we had our engagement pictures taken at a local park in Barrie. 11 months before the wedding date.

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  • Brittany
    British Columbia
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    I wanted to lose weight before taking engagement photos... but do them before we sent out invites, so that I could put some of the photos on our wedding website. We did them in mid-July, halfway between the engagement in December 2017 and our wedding is next month. Worked out great, and we got to do some summer photos as we'll have winter wedding photos.

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  • Jessie
    Expert September 2018 Ontario
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    We didnt get a chance to take engagement photos.

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  • Becky
    VIP September 2019 Ontario
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    We will be taking them this summer since we want it to show what we were like and our taste at time of engagement. It will be 18 months before

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  • Candace
    VIP May 2019 Ontario
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    We did two rounds of engagement photos one in the summer because a friend of ours was building his portfolio and asked to use us as models for it and then we did professional ones in the fall. So our first ones were 2 years before the wedding and the other ones were about a year and a half prior. With our engagement being so long (because our venue was booked up) we didn't want to wait too long to get things started.
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  • Karen
    Expert September 2018 Ontario
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    We did ours 8 months into getting engaged. BUT it wasn't a planned engagement photoshoot. It was my maternity photoshoot. I got pregnant and photographer thought it would be a great addition to the shoot. We are planning on getting another one when weather getsb nicer
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  • Tracy
    Devoted September 2018 Ontario
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    We had our engagement pictures done 11 months before our wedding. However we juat found out our photographer won't be able to do our wedding anymore (for happy reasons!) So we are actually getting more pictures done with our new photographers in either may or june, were getting married in September.
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  • Michelle
    Super September 2018 Alberta
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    Almost a yr, just over

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  • M
    Expert July 2018 Alberta
    Marina ·
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    About 7 months before the wedding.
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  • Mandy
    Devoted July 2019 Alberta
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    About a month after. My fiancé sister took our photos.
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  • Chloe
    Super May 2018 Ontario
    Chloe ·
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    We did ours 7 months before the wedding.
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  • Amber
    Devoted September 2018 Alberta
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    We will be doing ours in may, we are waiting for nicer weather. In may we will have been engaged for a year and will be 3 months out from the wedding.
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  • Bianca
    Master August 2019 Ontario
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    We’re aiming to take these a year before the wedding. Unfortunately our photographer is between Toronto and Winnepeg, so we have to wait a few months for her to be local.
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  • Jennifer
    Super August 2018 Alberta
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    Ours were a year before so we could use them on our invites which we wanted to send out early vs save the dates and invites.
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  • Courtney
    Super July 2018 Ontario
    Courtney ·
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    We didn't really care about the season, but we did want a picture from the engagement shoot on our save the date. So we did our shoot about 10.5 months before the wedding.

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  • Sydney
    Expert August 2018 Ontario
    Sydney ·
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    We did our engagement photos in October 2017, and are getting married August 2018 - so almost 10 months in advance!

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  • Stephanie
    Master July 2018 Alberta
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    It will be two months before. We’re waiting for nicer weather
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  • Erin
    Master September 2017 Ontario
    Erin ·
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    We took our engagement photos 2 and a bit months after we got engaged which was 7 months before the wedding.

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  • Amanda
    Super August 2018 Alberta
    Amanda ·
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    We had our engagement session about 10 months before the wedding, and 11 months after being engaged. We specifically wanted fall colours for our photos, so that kind of dictated when we took them. Lol
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  • Laura
    Frequent user October 2018 British Columbia
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    We got engaged in November 2017 and will be having our engagement photos done the first week of April 2018. Getting married in October 2018. I love cherry blossoms and they're in bloom in early April in Vancouver.

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  • Valérie
    VIP September 2019 Quebec
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    We opted out of getting engagement photos.

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  • Stephanie
    Frequent user May 2018 Ontario
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    We got engaged in july 2016, had engagement pics in september 2016 and getting married in May 2018.

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  • Breanne
    Expert August 2018 Ontario
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    We got engaged in October, did engagement photos in January and we're getting married in August. We used the photos for our save the dates that we sent out in February and it was included in our photography package thankfully.

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  • Allison
    Master October 2019 Ontario
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    We're doing ours in the fall, a year before our wedding. It'll be our anniversary when we do them, couldn't think of a funner activity!

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  • Jen
    VIP June 2018 Ontario
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    We did our engagement photos last June/July. We picked that time so that we would have nice weather and so that we could hand out our save the dates at our stag and doe in August.

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  • Tatiana
    Expert April 2018 Ontario
    Tatiana ·
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    We waited for the engagement photos for a while and took them in fall, we are getting married in spring.

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  • Holly
    VIP June 2019 Ontario
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    We did our engagement photos about a year and a half before. Right when we booked the photographer and there was beautiful Christmas lights set up in a local park.
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