Engagement Photos You Can Use
Posted by Jessica Sharpe on Wed, Feb 22, 2012
When you’re planning your wedding during your engagement, you may feel like you’re getting bogged down in little details, such whether your off-white shoes are actually seashell, cream or stone. If you’re a pragmatic person who feels like paring down the planning to the bare bones, you’ll be interested in useful engagement photos. Here are some ideas.
Get portraits
One feature of a useful engagement photo is that it’s a portrait. You can use a portrait in the newspaper, on your engagement website, as a graphic for a save-the-date postcard or magnet, and it looks great on your Facebook page. Prop-filled photos or photos that follow a storyline look nice in a scrapbook, but what can you use them for?
Stay simple
Simple engagement photos are going to be a lot more useful than complicated ones. You don’t want to have to explain to your Aunt Mabel why your engagement photos are shot at an abandoned amusement park -- kids these days! The two of you standing together or embracing in your engagement photos tells everyone all they need to know.
Tone down
Don’t wear colorful clothes with crazy patterns, or plan on elaborate costumes to make a scene. Your engagement photos can look dated if you go overboard on the outfits. Stick to muted colors and classic fashions to make your engagement photos as timeless as your love.
While staged engagement photos work for some couples, don’t feel like you have to have them if you don’t want to and stick with useful engagement photos instead. What kind of engagement photos are you planning on?
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