137 days to go.
YAY! Engagement photos are this weekend; Yes, I am aware we are a little late, but we wanted to wait for sunnier skies (though the forecast calls for clouds) Anyway, super stoked to play super model for a day. As I debated on what to wear, I started thinking; why do we really need to have engagement photos anyway? Is it just one of those things we think we should have done since everyone else does it? Or is it one of the many cash grabs created by vendors to get all they can out of love drunk couples too preoccupied with wedding planning details to notice they are being sold on a service they really didn’t need?
So I decided to do some hardcore investigating…I Googled it. Why should I have engagement photos taken? According to weddingchannel.com it’s the best way to get comfortable with your photographer before the wedding. It breaks the ice and leads to more natural photos on the big day. Ok I can accept that for a valid reason for having them done. I mean I want to be comfortable enough on my wedding day that my pictures don’t turn out horrible. I mean it’s a one shot deal right? You can’t have a do over of your big day, well you can, but it’s not the same. The wonderful people at weddingchannel.com also go on to include the fact that if you intend to print out your pictures you may have to pay your photographer compensation if you want to print out the pics yourself since the photographer has the rights to the picture….throat clears…Cash grab. (Don’t even get me started on how it bugs me that you have to pay your photographer an absorbent amount of money for the rights to print pictures of yourself)
Theknot.com also gave the same reason. They also added that it’s a great way to announce your engagement, save the dates, a newspaper announcement…etc, which is why it is customary to take them soon after the bended knee deed is done. Well, in our case the save the dates were in the form of an e-mail and we are not the type to put out an announcement in the newspaper, so those points are wasted on couples such as ourselves. Theknot.com also gave a suggestion for brides to tryout there wedding day make up and hair before the big day. This makes me laugh a little, especially when talking about trying out your wedding hairstyle. What you wear for your engagement photos are often more casual then on your wedding day, traditionally anyway. So how will the same hairstyle be fitting? When flipping through the magazines of “real weddings” I often see brides with their hair in an up-do, or something more formal, I think I may look a little silly if my hair was all done up and I was walking though a park or downtown with Prince Charming…. again, this point is wasted on brides such as myself. Plus, Prince Charming has no idea what I have in store for my wedding day. I’m one of those brides who wants to surprise groom on the day of.
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