Planning Your Engagement

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Once a couple decides to get married the real

work beings; planning, planning and more

planning are the order of the day every day for

the following months leading up to the

wedding date. There is no escaping it, fellas, so

gear up and get in line with your fiancé

because it is going to get brutal.

That is unfair to say, it will not be that brutal so long as the couple goes about it in the right way. While

planning may seem like an arduous and sometimes unnecessary task, preparing for future events makes

those events run vastly more smoothly than if the couple tries to wing it or play it by ear.

This principle of planning to make things run smoothly includes even the principle step of wedding day

preparations for most couples, the engagement photos. Engagement photos are important to a

wedding mostly because of their appearance on the wedding invitations but they can also serve another

purpose.

Get to know the photographer

Engagement photos can serve as a preliminary practice run of how the photography aspect of the

wedding day itself will unfold. Engagement photos will accomplish this by first introducing the hired

photographer to the couple and allow both parties to gain a feel for how the other works with

photography.

This will ensure that any bumps that may arise during picture taking will get sorted out before the big

day and will give the photographer and the couple a chance to plan together various aspects of the

future wedding photos. With engagement photos accomplishing so much more than simple pictures on

an invitation, one can see the importance of proper planning to ensure that the engagement photo

shoot itself goes smoothly.

Themes

The first thing that a couple should consider when planning their engagement photos is to decide

whether or not they wish to incorporate some sort of theme to their photos. Themes can be fun to

work out and can tie the photos together but whether an exact theme is chosen by the couple or not

they must still decide on a concept or general idea of what they want their photos to include.

This concept is important because it will dictate how

the remainder of the photo shoot will go and what

different aspects will have to be included, such as

wardrobe and location. Concepts to an engagement

photo shoot could include decisions on whether the

couple wants to take fun pictures, romantic pictures,

passionate or sexy pictures, conservatively simple

yet elegant pictures, or more of a reality TV style

image that captures the couple in everyday activity.

Whatever the concept or theme, the couple can then plan their location and wardrobe around that

theme making those decisions flow with relative ease. The location, urban or earthy, industrial or

sentimental, will follow what theme the couple decides upon.

Likewise will the outfits be determined by the theme or concept chosen by the couple, whether the

wardrobe be athletic or sophisticated, lavish or simple. Announcing your engagement to world can be

an exciting and fulfilling event and the photos taken to immortalize this event should be equally exciting

and fulfilling which can only be accomplished by proper planning.

Photo credit: Genaro, Auzigog