Engagement Sessions

The Key to Shooting Amazing Wedding Pictures is to Build Rapport With Your Photographer via an Engagement Shoot

The best way to get to know your photographer before the wedding day is to work together prior to the actual event. Try a pre-wedding engagement shoot or pre-wedding consultation to build up rapport. This is a great chance for you and your fianc to really see how your photographer interacts with you both. Does he/she have fresh ideas? Unique poses? Interesting scenery in the background?

The engagement session is intended to be low pressure and high in fun. You can experiment with your photographer without the pressures of being whisked off to the reception. It is a chance to be intimate, unique and to amplify the characteristics of your personalities intertwined. Almost always, the engagement shoot leads to a higher comfort level between the bride and groom and the photographer, which carries on to the wedding day. By the wedding day, the photographer becomes like part of the family.

While each studio has its own policy and package rates for engagement shoots, it would not be impolite to ask if you can bring at least one change of outfits. I like to shoot couples at the beach, where there is a nearby park. That way, there are two different scenes within one. It looks as if it were done on two separate days, meaning more choices for the bride and groom.