3 REASONS TO BOOK AN ENGAGEMENT SESSION BEFORE YOUR WEDDING!!

Unsure if you should book an engagement session before your wedding day?!? The answer is always YES!! In this blog postwe’ll outline 3 reasons why YOU should do an engagement session with your photographer before your wedding day. We get it…finding a photographer for your special day can be a daunting task on its own, let alone getting in front of the camera. Getting your photos done can bring up so many worries and insecurities and that’s why we always recommend doing an engagement session. Firstly, it’s a way to get all these worries and insecurities out of the way before your wedding day AND secondly, this is a moment that should be celebrated! A moment you and your partner should relish in! Anyway, enough of this, let’s get into the meat and potatoes of this newsletter…

REASON #1: It’s a good practice run before the wedding day! As photographers we are big fans of this reason. At an engagement session, you’ll get to see what poses you love and what ones not so much. You’ll have the opportunity to get comfortable in front of the camera and nail your poses, so we have a game plan for your wedding day. Creating this confidence and comfortability in front of the camera before your wedding day is a huge bonus for you and your partner especially if you think you and your partner are “not picture people.” Having this pre-wedding day confidence boost allows for your photos to end up looking authentic and just as beautiful as you imagined!

REASON #2: It gives you and your photographer a chance to bond before the wedding day! This is probably our most favourite reason because we love, love, love any extra opportunities we get to spend time getting to know our clients. Doing an engagement session pre-wedding day allows you to feel comfortable in front of the camera with your photographer, so that we are not strangers come wedding day!! We’re the vendor that you spend the most time with on your wedding day and we want your photos to reflect the love you two share without any awkwardness. One of the most common things we hear is, “I feel awkward in front of the camera”- so this is the perfect opportunity to connect with your photographer to break that “awkwardness” before your wedding day. In return, you and your partner will feel more at ease being in front of the camera sharing those intimate moments with your photographer on your wedding day.

REASON #3: Most importantly this is a moment in time you will never get back. Let us say that again so it can sink in… THIS IS A MOMENT IN TIME YOU WILL NEVER GET BACK and it deserves to be celebrated!! We don’t mean to shout this point at you, but truthfully, we find this is one thing most couples we talk to forget about. Most couples get engaged and dive right into wedding planning mode…we did it ourselves. Throughout that planning process they see how expensive a wedding will be and then an engagement session is usually one of the first things to be cut out of the budget because “you’ll have wedding photos anyway”. Don’t do that! Full disclosure, engagement photos were not something Kim and I made a priority when we got married last year. We as well chalked it up to being an extra expense and something we didn’t really need. However, it’s been 2 years since we’ve been engaged and 1 year since we’ve been married and it’s something we still regularly talk about being sad not having. It’s something we can never go back in time and do, and it is a moment we’ll never be able to recreate. This is why we think you should ALWAYS DO AN ENGAGEMENT SESSION because we get it firsthand. This moment is so important to cherish and have beautiful memories to look back on. It’s the start of your wedding planning journey. When you really think about it, if you didn’t get engaged there wouldn’t be a wedding! So, take these photos to remember this literal once in a lifetime moment!!

BONUS REASON: It’s a day out for you and your partner to forget about life for a while and enjoy each other’s company and get some awesome pictures while you’re at it! Doing an engagement session can help you and your partner step out of the everyday world and step into being together for an hour and remember what it’s like being in love with your best friend and life partner.

So now we’ve talked about just how important it is to have an engagement session and you may be thinking, okay amazing- I want to book one in!

But where do I have one?

What time of day is best?

If you’re having any of these questions and you’re keen to book in your session or have a chat about what this might look like, book a connection call with us HERE---> https://imagesbyjac.sproutstudio.com/invitation/welcome-meeting-