Engagement Photo Session
This actually happened over a month ago, but better late than never right! The photography package we selected for our wedding included a complimentary engagement photo session. Mary and I weren't planning on purchasing this, but since it was at no cost to us, we figured we'd take advantage. Our photographers made a good case for it as well. They said that the purpose of the session was for us to "warm up" to having our pictures taken a lot and be the center of attention. This proved to be a really good idea.
Although we did warm up a little towards the end, there was definitely a feeling of, "what are we supposed to do?" Most of the time, when someone is taking your picture you look directly at the camera and smile, right? Well that's not the case for wedding pictures. Not that we expected it to be, but actually having to act candid was quite a challenge. Of course, on our wedding day, we'll be so pre-occupied with guests and such that I'm sure we'll hardly even notice the photographer.
Some of the pictures didn't come out to be our favorites, but we did really like a lot of them. It ended up being a great experience to get to work with our photographers ahead of time. We're also planning on purchasing several of the photos from our engagement session as well. I'm sure that only our parents and maybe siblings will be interested, but we'd be happy to let anyone view them online.
For security reasons, I'm not going to post the address to the gallery online, but just send us a message on our contact page, and I'll happily send you the link!
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