How to add personality into your engagement photo shoot

Your wedding engagement photo shoot may be the first time that you and your fiancé have ever posed together for photographs and if that’s the case, that is perfectly okay! Consider this a practice session for all the smiling and arranged handholding, eye-gazing, photos that you’ll take together on your wedding day. Lots of time couples will use these photos to print on their save the dates or to use as decoration throughout their wedding day guest book. So in order to add a spark of your personality into the photos, here are 4 tips to make your engagement photo shoot reflect the details and sparkle of the two of you.

 

Select a Theme

Adding a theme to your engagement shoot can make your photos stand out and also be cohesive, especially if you’re planning on using multiple of them to decorate your guest book or to create a collage on your wedding website. You can select a theme that is based on season, your favorite sport’s team, shared hobby, or even color.

 

Go Someplace Special

Location, location, location! If there are one or two places that have a lot of meaning to both of you or remind you of something special about your relationship, consider taking your photos there. That will add life and love into all of your photos and lend to interesting stories when people ask why you chose a specific spot to take your photographs at.

 

Don’t be Afraid to Act Silly

Let your personality shine with funny photos. Scour Pinterest to find different types of photos you like, whether they are of the couple jumping or doing something silly, take a batch of photos like that so you can pick and chose later which you’d like to use for the

 

Ask for Candid Shots

While your photographer may want to take a couple of photos of you two posed and put together nicely, ask if she can take a couple of you two candid, having a conversation, telling each other your favorite joke, or even flipping through photos of you two throughout the years.