Why Every Couple Needs to Have Engagement Photos


Congratulations on your engagement! This is an important milestone in both your lives, individually and together. Even if your relationship began its journey many years ago, we’d like to share our top 3 reasons why every couple needs to have engagement photos.

Hang onto this moment

Often couples, brides in particular, leap right from engagement to wedding planning. This usually means the ecstatic feeling of saying “yes” gets tamped down a bit by the anxiety of planning possibly the most important party of your life. Before the planning takes on a life of its own, we encourage you to pause and enjoy the feeling of being newly engaged. Embrace the wonder that in this crazy world, you two found your other half! Hold the love, excitement, and expectancy of the moment. Engagement photos are one of the best ways to do this!

Photo couple engagement photos downtown Anchorage

Time together with your wedding photographers

Wedding photography is a very personal form of art. Images that touch our heart-strings are often ones of unguarded moments, of impromptu events, and of candid expressions playing across a face. In reality, weddings tend to be well scripted affairs. Capturing images that feel genuine requires skill from your photographers and coaching so that you feel comfortable in front of the cameras. One of our top reasons why every couple needs to have engagement photos is the time you spend with us early, pays back with wonderful wedding photos later! Besides getting to know each other better, together we explore the types of images you prefer, looks that flatter, and locations you love. With a little coaching and trust, our goal is for our couples to relax, have fun, and allow us to capture real moments between them.

Many ways to enjoy your photos

Engagement photos are typically linked to “Save the Date” cards but there are so many other opportunities to enjoy them. This is likely your first professional photos together as an engaged couple. Celebrate your love and commitment by displaying your photo at home, as a smaller print to have at work, as a gift for parents, on wedding invitations, at the reception, and on wedding announcements.  Adding personalized touches to your celebration and favors continues to be a very popular trend that we know your guests will love!  Including engagement photos in your wedding décor is a wonderful way to add personalization.

Photo of couple engagement photos fall in Alaska

We hope this blog has inspired you to not skip the engagement photos! Being engaged deserves to be celebrated and memorializing this milestone with photos is a fantastic way to do it.  It’s easy to see why we feel every couple needs to have engagement photos!

Happy Planning!

Sharon and Laura

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