Lilac Dude and I met with our photographer, Jay Kossman (digital504.com) this afternoon for our engagement photos. He includes one additional shoot with wedding packages and we opted for an “e-session.”
Not one of our photos, just one from the night we got engaged (personal photo)
It was so much fun! We went to a playground and pretended to be kids for awhile and then we had a classy picnic at a park.
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Thank you guys for your advice to my last post about the engagement photographs. It was wonderfully helpful. An unforeseen complication was that it was forecasted to rain, and rain hard, all day. When I discussed this with our photographer a couple days beforehand, she told me not to worry because it would just force us to be creative. So I tried my best to take her advice and not worry about it.
Lotus Dude and I picked her up at the airport in the morning and we spent the day together. She definitely put as at ease pretty quickly and we were soon able to act relatively natural. I think there were definitely moments that I forgot about the camera completely, and those seem to have led to the best photos. Here’s one of the photographs from her blog.
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So, the inspiration was abound, now the reality had to be laid… yup, it was time for this engineer to bring out a little ANTM (yes, I love that show more than a fresh bride-to-be loves ’say yes to the dress’). I had worked on my poses… you know, got a friend to take some pics and tried to see what works and what doesn’t. While I didn’t have Tyra scrutinizing my fierce-ness, I thought I had an idea of when to smile with my eyes, when to think about something sexy, and when to be bold and downright gorgeous. Did this work in the actual e-session… uh, well, let’s just say that I probably wouldn’t continue on “in my hopes of becoming blogger-brides next top e-session model”, but overall, I am pretty happy with how the pics turned out. (OH, and I did learn that profile shots are NOT on the “must-shoot” list… let’s try to minimize the nose people!!)
I will share with you the photos that our artistic visionaries posted on their blog, and when I actually get around to purchasing the whole set of files from them (that is, if I can manage to massage our post-thanksgiving-dinner-TIGHT wedding budget to find room for the expense), I will post more. But, for now, feast your eyes dear friends…
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So if you read my post about wedding stress, marriage, and love, you had a glimpse into the day that was our engagement pictures!! Although the lead up to the shoot was shaky at best, I did eventually find something to wear that I was pretty happy with, I did remember to enjoy the moment, and yes, I (we) did end up having a blast! Our photographers, Kevan and Duane from 6:8 Photography have been the objects of my affection since I first saw their work back in September. Actually, it was these pictures, of Zoe and Quinn, who got married at our wedding venue, that really hit me… (PS… check out our venue… gorgeous right??)
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No, we’re not talking about gunfire or alcohol. We’re talking about an engagement photo shoot in the city. Our photographer spent an entire afternoon with us to take more than just a few engagement pictures. Boston holds a special place in our hearts so it was only fitting.. When taking shots around a city, here are some things we learned (along with some of our pictures):
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Photo by Alen Abdula
Did you know that I found our photographer, Alen Abdula, on Craigslist? Not only professional, he was also extremely laid back. He even brought his wife to help with our session and it was so much fun. He somehow managed to make us look great, despite my red nose and cheeks in the 5 degree weather (Boston had a 5 to 8-inch snow storm the night before our session). Yes, yes, we were crazy for spending 3 hours in and out of the freezing cold, but boy, was it worth it! We were able to capture almost everything I wanted on my “must have” list, except for the subway shots. It was simply too cold to walk to the T (we, mostly Miss Hawaii here, could not endure another minute in the cold!) so we drove to the city instead.
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Dandelion Dude and I took a Hawaiian vacation in November 2008. While we were there, we thought we should get some engagement pictures done. So we did.
But up until this weekend, all we had of our engagement pictures were the teasers from our photographer James Rubio’s site. Well, on Saturday we got the DVD in the mail and I was soo pleased with everything about them. He even included a slide show with music in the background. I was blown away! Here are a few of our favorites from our Kona, HI photoshoot.
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