Does that sound like a good name for a service? I don’t know yet but I am definitely open to suggestions 🙂 In any case it is a new service offered here at ALP and it’s used to describe an approach to engagement photography. A lot of times I was photographing the engagement session and trying to incorporate the couples personality and style but it’s really difficult to do when most of the time the engagement session is where you really get to know them. So in order to help get to know my clients beforehand I developed a little questionnaire for them to fill out so that we can incorporate how they met, where their first date was or perhaps their jobs into the engagement session. This is something that we will be looking to incorporate into all of our 2009 weddings and it makes me so excited because it gives a true direction and feel to the engagement shoot and since each story is unique it helps keep the sessions unique. So here are my two first willing participants and some of their stories . . .
The story of Shawn and Tricia is of each being in another relationship when the other was free during high school and narrow misses to end up together in love at the right time. Shawn and Tricia both went to the same high school as me but a grade above me. I met them both (separately) in shared classes; Tricia in Tourism and Shawn in “Preparation a la vie” (for those who might not speak French it’s a class basically dedicated to preparing you for life ie making resumes, introspection, career hunting etc etc) and got along pretty well with both of them. When Tricia messaged me about photographing her wedding in October of course I said yes and then when I heard the details of their ceremonies and how the day was going to go I got really excited. We weren’t originally planning on doing an engagement session but I had an idea a few months back for an interesting shoot location; the drive in and when I approached Tricia she was super excited as this is where her and Shawn went on their first date. Here are some of the shots . . .
This was shot in the projector room where the movies are projected onto the big screens from
This is me having some fun in photoshop – Making them the stars of their own big screen movie
fun in the field next to the drive in
Sipping on some pop next to Tricia’s father’s porsche
This is what happens when you give these two popcorn and let them have a “popcorn fight”!
Next up is Rikki & Blake – these two are as cute as a button and found me through doing Jen & Gareth’s wedding this past May. These two met at work, at the local YMCA daycamp so what better way to pay tribute to their fun personalities and how they met than to go to their work and take a few fun shots!
Sneaking a kiss out front
Relaxing in front of the gorgeous view
Rikki and Blake wanted to include the kids somehow so I came up with this shot and then the counselors wanted in on it too!
This gem was Blake’s idea – he thought it would be good to include the Y symbol in one of the shots!
This is only the first part to their engagement session but seeing them at work lets me see a different side to them and helps me to get to know them better on a different level. I am so excited to try this out for other clients engagement sessions! Anyways I am off now to get ready for the wedding tomorrow – let’s cross our fingers for no rain!
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