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This engagement session reinterprets all those oh-so-familiar couple poses
When my fiancé Elliot and I got engaged, we didn't have any plans to take engagement photos. But when we started our wedding research, we... Read more
There's more to fun engagement photo ideas than gazing into each others' eyes in a park. You can do, well, anything! We even saw some back in the day that poked a little fun at a few of the more traditional poses. We put out the call for some alternative ideas for engagement shoot ideas and our vendors came through with some winners. We're talking movie and TV references, arcade gaming, dinosaur cameos, lightsabers, wands, and dance parties anywhere.
Are YOU doing anything a little different in your own engagement shoot? Let us know about it in the comments!
Fun engagement photo idea: A movie/TV theme
Like this Twin Peaks shoot…
Elyse Remenowsky
Like this Buffy-inspired shot!
Or Bonnie & Clyde, Where's Waldo, Game of Thrones, or Harry Potter.
Fun engagement photo idea: Stage an attack
If you've got a local big sculpted animal available, use it!
Fun engagement photo idea: Channel your inner animal
Or your own animals…
Fun engagement photo idea: Totally embrace costumes
Fun engagement shoot idea: Tap into a fandom
Fun engagement photo idea: Stay at home and do YOU
Fun engagement shoot idea: Find a cool spot and DANCE
Fun engagement shoot idea: just chill looking pretty with your pooches…
Fun engagement photo idea: Take a ride
On your motocycle, bike, local horse-drawn carriage, or whatever's around!
Engagement photo idea: GO PLAY at an arcade
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About the Author: Catherine Clark
Catherine Clark loiters at her local library, makes art, watches movies en masse, plays video and tabletop games, poorly cooks healthy things, cuddles with her feline fur babies, and blogs at BijouxandBits.com.
If the guy on the right, in the ‘Betty Clicker Photography’ photo was standing in front of the mountain/rock in the previous ‘Twisted Aisle Weddings’ photo he would disappear in the background! Perfect camo 🙂
My fiancé and I are both musicians. We actually met in college studying audio production. We’re going t be working with a photographer to capture some shots of us at my partner’s place of work: a recording studio.