1 - Choose a location that suites you.
The goal of an engagement session is to get to know your photographer, to learn prompts from each other that help you fall into place on the wedding day, and to personify what your love looks like.
Think about what works for you as a couple. It doesn’t have to be a conceptual art project, but I find it helpful to choose something you’re drawn to. Coffee lovers? Find a coffee shop that has tall windows on two sides of the building for you to cuddle near. Homebodies? Consider an in-home session showing you cooking a meal together. A shared love of terrifying horror movies? Grab some high waisted shorts, ringer T’s, and pigs blood and head to a campsite for a retro Sleepaway Camp vibe.
2 - the sun moves.
Technically, the Earth does, but that’s not the point!
I hope this one doesn’t come out of left field but, the thing about glowy, beautiful sunset photos is that they happen at sunset.
If you went to a location and were in awe of the glory of a sherbet colored sky, picking that location and showing up with your photographer at 2 p.m. isn’t going to do the place you found any justice.
