Book Your Engagement Session With your Wedding Photographer
Booking your engagement pictures session with your photographer is a must-do before your wedding day. It's a chance for you and your fiancé to get comfortable in front of the camera, and for your photographer to learn your personalities, style, and how to make you both look your best. It's also a great opportunity to get to know your photographer before your wedding day and you can find out if you even like your photographers shooting style and posing. Plus, engagement pictures make for great keepsakes and can be used for save-the-dates, reception displays, and as gifts for family and friends. Overall, booking your engagement session with your photographer paves the way for a stress-free and enjoyable wedding day and provides cherished memories for years to come.
As a wedding photographer, I include an engagement session in all of my all-inclusive wedding packages, and I do that intentionally because I WANT to get to know my clients. Did you know that your wedding photographer/videographer is the vendor(s) you spend the most time with on your wedding day. And in my opinion, its important to actually enjoy having them around you on your wedding day. A quick way to ruin your wedding day is to have people that just don’t work with you and your personality. So booking an engagement session with your actual wedding photographer is a great way to get to know your wedding photographer and their shooting style to see if you like it. As a wedding photographer I will never be offended if we do an engagement session and you decide to hire someone else because our personalities don’t work together. It is more important to me to make sure your wedding day is perfect, than making money off you and potentially making your day miserable. I completely understand that not all personalities mix. I consider myself pretty easy to get along with and easy going, but if you are a couple that really wants a high energy, pose everything photographer. That’s not who I am. I like to take a more documentary style to my wedding photography and capture moments as they happen. And only pose a few things like family formals and a few portraits.
So yeah, I think it’s really important to get to know your photographer before your wedding day with an engagement session. And I promise, being happy on your wedding day with your vendor team is more important that a little hurt feelings that you didn’t click with someone enough to book an expensive wedding package with them. So my biggest piece of advice is to be intentional about the vendor team you choose for your wedding day and don’t settle on someone just because. There are many wedding photographers out there and you can find someone who clicks the best with you.