Posts Tagged ‘Engagement’

The engagement photo shoot is important, but not necessary. If it’s part of the wedding photographer’s package deals, then it’s a good purchase to do this. Most couples haven’t been professionally photographed… together; so it’s a smart exercise to learn some thing (like what’s your best side) and to get comfortable with how the photographer operates.  The engagement photo shoot is also an opportunity for the photographer to expand the rapport with the wedding couple, see how you interact as a couple, and you both get to have some fun and establish a level of trust before the high-pressured event. The engagement shoot will build your trust in the photographer’s creative suggestions… this way you’ll enjoy the actually day more, and have fewer things to worry about.

This is also a test run for the process of reviewing and ordering the proofs (either online or hard copy), the same way that you’ll be doing when you get the actual wedding photos back. This is critical, because you’ll be able to see how the photographer re-touches the photos or does any other alterations and presents you with a finished product. Plus, the engagement photos will serve as a means to get your families pumped up about the big day… and give you one more set of memories to fawn over.

Now you might decide that you don’t want to do an engagement photo shoot, that’s okay; but that means that you’ll have to keep up your dialog going with the photographer that much more. The on-the-ball wedding photographer will be obsessed with your wedding schedule, and since you don’t have that engagement photo shoot and the affiliated time to talk with him or her, you’ll need to be as specific and direct as possible.