Has your significant other popped the question? If you answered yes, and now wear an engagement ring, congratulations are in order. It’s a huge step toward living the rest of your lives together, and it deserves to be immortalized with engagement photography. Not entirely sure that this type of photography is, or why you might hire an engagement photographer in New Jersey in the first place?
What Is It?
First, let’s address the question of what this type of photography is and how it differs from wedding photography. Part of the difference is obvious in the name – it centers on your engagement, rather than the wedding itself. This type of photo session always occurs before the big day, but rarely at the time of engagement, though. Instead, you’ll have a session a few weeks or perhaps a couple of months before the wedding. This allows you to do some of important things.
Testing the Waters
One of the most important benefits of engagement photography is that it gives you a way to test the waters with your photographer, with specific angles, shot styles, poses, and more. Think of it as practice for the wedding, but with photos that you can keep. It also gives you a bit of experience working with a professional photographer so that things go more smoothly on your wedding day. You can also test out how hairstyles and makeup that you want for the wedding will look in person, giving you time to make adjustments or changes to those if you’re not completely happy with them.
Professional Photos to Use
Another reason to consider having an engagement photo session is that you’ll ultimately come away with professional photos that you can use. Some of the more common uses for these include on save the date cards, wedding invitations, wedding websites and the like. You can use them on your social media profiles, and in your wedding photo album, too. There’s an almost endless number of potential uses for these beautiful photos.
Of course, the real key to a successful session is working with the right photographer. At Limelight Entertainment, we offer professional engagement photography for New Jersey couples before they tie the knot, and we invite you to contact us to learn more about some of our top suggested locations, what to wear, props to use and more. Call us at 888-900-0042.
