Engagement Shoots

We’ve been getting a lot of questions lately from our couples wondering what an engagement shoot is for, what it entails, should they do one, etc. So here’s the low down on these bewildering “ringed” shoots.

So here’s why not to do an engagement shoot – 1) Your mom will want to plaster your faces all over her walls and kitchen and every nook and cranny of her house, and you can’t stand looking at yourself that much; 2) Your friends will “ooooo and ahhhh” and you don’t like that much attention; and 3) you have an intense fear that looking into a camera lens will steal your soul.

Here’s why you should do an engagement shoot – 1) It will give you an opportunity to practice posing in front of a camera before your wedding; 2) It will give us a chance to get to know how you photograph, so we can have tricks up our sleeves for your wedding; 3) You’ll have amazing photos to show your kids how great you looked before they were born; 4) You’ll have fantastic photos to use for a guest book at your wedding or to use in your invitations; 5) You get to hang out with us! 6) We get to hang out with you! And finally – 7) When you’re 90, you’ll be able to look back at the way you looked at each other when you were engaged and be amazed that after all these years, you still look at each other with that love in your eyes.

So – now that the whole world wants to do engagement shoots, you must be asking “What do we actually do while we’re on them?”

First we pick a location. Some couples want gardens and flowers, other couples want an urban feel to their photos, some want the beach, some want the snow, some want all of the above. So, once we’ve picked a location, we head out and run around taking pictures of you two in love. We have a fashion-y photojournalistic style, so we want to capture your relationship in a visually stunning way. We encourage our couples to have fun and laugh and to just enjoy being in love. Then we capture your love in pictures. Then we’re done!

Here’s some photos from our ringed sessions last year:

Thanks to all our 2007 couples who were so much fun to photograph! We love you guys!