Wedding Photography Blog Series - Part 3: Pre-Wedding PhotoShoots

A pre-wedding photo-shoot (often referred as an engagement shoot) is an excellent 'trial run' for your wedding photographs. Many photographers now offer this service as standard and often without charge or obligation, so if you're having difficulty deciding on your wedding photographer a pre-wedding shoot is a great way to experience working with them and seeing how their style suits you first-hand.

Not only is it great practice for you being in front of the camera, it also allows the photographer to see what images and poses work best for you, and what may not.

Sally Marie offers a complimentary pre-wedding shoot to all couples planning their wedding photography. The reasons for this are straightforward: it allows the couple and myself time to get to know each other's personalities and talk about what sort of images they like and don't like, plan the look of their day and their wedding album and, most importantly, demonstrate that there is absolutely nothing to worry about in front of the camera! It gives them confidence that I will make them look their all-time best with minimum fuss or effort on their part. There really is nothing to be scared of!

The feedback from pre-wedding shoots is fairly consistent: relief that it is so much easier than they had imagined it would be, and confidence that they can look forward to being photographed on the big day rather than dreading it!

Another advantage is that the tips on standing and sitting beautifully in a photograph can be applied to every photograph taken of you from here onwards... you are given simple advice that will help you look amazing in not just your wedding photographs, but in your honeymoon snaps and every family photo ever taken.

After the pre-wedding shoot...

The images from your engagement / pre-wedding shoot are used to produce customised miniature cards, containing the login details and password for your online wedding album. These cards can be placed on the tables at your wedding breakfast or enclosed with thank you cards to allow guests to view your wedding photographs online.

One one side of each card is one of your pre-wedding shoot pictures, and on the other instructions on how to access your gallery of wedding photographs. The cards can have different images for variety, they don't have to all show the same photograph.

For more information about engagement photoshoots or for a chat about your wedding photography please call the studio on 01341 28 11 93.

COMING UP NEXT: Wedding Photography Blog Series - Part 4: The Big Day (Bridal Preparations)

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