Everyone wants to have an amazing engagement session, but most couples haven’t had professional photos done since senior year of high school! It can definitely feel awkward, nerve wracking, and very uncertain. After all, this is your first time doing any of this! You want awesome photos that reflect who you are as a couple while making you look natural, and embracing the location you love. There are some things you can do to ensure your engagement session is fun, comfortable, and brings out the genuine chemistry you have together. Here are some tips!

(Keep in mind these tips may not apply to all photographers’ styles, but if your photographer has a natural, documentary style, these tips are definitely for you!)

About an hour west of the city of Carlsbad, New Mexico, is an oasis tucked away in the rolling hills and mountains of the desert. People travel from all over New Mexico to escape the 100+ degree weather of the southwest summers and jump into cool, green springs. This is what I love about New […]

Romance movies are made about people exactly like Mallory and Justin. You’ve heard it before – country boy meets city girl and suddenly both of their lives are turned inside out and upside down. Mallory told me about the first time they met in person after chatting online for awhile. Justin had rolled up rocking […]

Sometimes I go into the city for engagement sessions, a lot of times a lively park or beach, the occasional waterfall, lighthouse, or in the couples own home. But I don’t think I’ve ever been in a magical backyard forest, the three of us walking barefoot and feeling the moss squish between our toes while […]

I am always so in awe of highschool sweethearts. They essentially grew up together, only really ever having eachother. They remained dedicated to eachother throughout graduation, going off to college, toughing it through exams, and entering the workforce. I believe the most extreme changes happen from highschool into the mid-twenties and somehow these couples have […]

I didn’t think I stood a chance when I saw Sania’s request on Facebook for an engagement photographer. Already dozens of comments deep, I still threw in my website anyway with hopes that she’d maybe, possibly, HOPEFULLY see it. And my goodness, I am so lucky she did. She and Danyal came into the session […]