You’ve just got engaged, your minds are awash with what’s next and there is a mountain of things you need to start thinking of as you plan for your wedding. An engagement shoot may not be on your immediate radar, but there are a number of very good reasons why you should consider marking such a momentous event with some professional photography.
In this blog, we will explore why an engagement photoshoot is a fantastic and enjoyable way of celebrating and immortalising a landmark moment.
Capture The Occasion
Your engagement is a unique time, filled with anticipation and joy. Things will never be the same for both of you and soon you will be knee deep in brochures for venues and menus. As the excitement of your upcoming wedding day builds, you might be considering whether to have an engagement photoshoot.
An engagement signals the start of a lifelong commitment to each other and it should be considered as the first step of your wedding planning and marked as such.
Whilst wedding planning can be hectic, engagement photoshoots offer many benefits that make them a valuable addition to your wedding journey. In this blog, we will explore why an engagement photoshoot is a fantastic idea and how it can enhance your overall wedding experience.
Create Opportunities To Personalise Your Wedding
Whilst most people have no shortage of snaps on their phone, a professional photograph is one that is taken to the standards needed to enhance and personalise your wedding stationary or to have photographs on easels at the reception. It gives guests a very vibrant image of who you both are as a couple, rather than just an invite to turn up at a place and time. Keep in mind that an engagement shoot can be many things to many people from a portrait shoot to a walk along the beach. From sitting on the back of a motorcycle to the side of a rockface – whatever best reflects you both.
Professional engagement photographs when combined with the images that reside on your phone can make a very emotional display or slideshow during the reception that can truly personalise your wedding.
Try Out A Wedding Photographer
One of your most significant costs for the wedding is photography and choosing a photographer is an important and time consuming task. An engagement shoot can be a relatively low cost, low risk way of both capturing the engagement for all time and getting to know and trust a potential wedding photographer.
Building a rapport with a photographer in this way means that on the day of the wedding, you all have a relationship and history, which will lead to a more relaxed experience on the day
Invest In you
Your engagement is a unique occasion and tells the world of your intent to make a life together. Engagement photography captures this special and relatively short time between being single and being married in a manner that reflects the uniqueness of you as a couple.
Whilst you may be thinking you have a lot of wedding planning ahead and items to budget for, years into the future you will never regret the stunning images of your engagement, but you could very well regret not having captured it professionally.
Have we made the case for engagement photography…? We hope so and if there is any residual doubt about cost, keep an eye out for wedding packages that include an engagement shoot. These are valuable benefits that are worth several hundred pounds.
About The Photographer
Tony is a professional wedding and social photographer, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a former alumni of Napier Photographic School.
