What Is An Engagement Session?

If you are freshly engaged or simply, really in love, here is something for you...

What exactly is an engagement session?

In most cases, it is a casual photo shoot with your photographer. It is an opportunity for you to be photographed prior to your wedding, and get to know your photographer and see images of yourselves before the wedding day. The idea is to build rapport and feel comfortable with the person taking your wedding photographs.

The engagement session should be light and playful with plenty of time to capture just the right moments.
To help make these images special, pick a location that has some significance to you both. It could be the place where you got engaged or a first date. The location could be a place as simple as your home, a restaurant, museum, or maybe the college where you met.

Reasons to have an engagement session:

• Grabbing those raw emotions just between the two of you is a rare opportunity and you’ll be glad to have this to look back on when you’re old and grey.
• If you are camera shy, the engagement shooting is a great opportunity to instill confidence and build comfort in front of the camera.
• Another advantage to being photographed prior to your wedding day is the opportunity for the bride to have a test run done on her make-up.
• Wouldn’t it be great to have some fab photos of you NOT in wedding threads? Wedding gowns and tuxedos aren’t exactly our everyday attire.
• Engagement images also make great gifts for parents and grandparents. Your engagement images might also be used for “Save the Date” cards, engagement announcements, etc.
• A framed image or multiple framed images from your engagement session is a great way to add some warmth and personality to your new home.

Getting to know your photographer, seeing pictures of yourselves ahead of time and knowing you will like your make-up will help build confidence in yourselves and your photographer, creating a shared level of trust.

Get yourself some sweet photos! :)