Why Consider a Destination Engagement Session?

You are engaged!! Now it is time to start planning your engagement portrait session. But where do you do these portraits? Do you take them at the beautiful park close to your town? Do you take them at a location that is special to you and your fiancé? Do you go to the beach? A theme park? Some other place your photographer suggests? The location of your wedding?

None of those are wrong answers. They are all valid locations to use for your engagement portraits. But what if there was someplace you didnt think about? What if there were some amazing locations that you didnt know about? This is where destination engagement portraits come into play.

The idea behind the engagement session isnt only to provide you with some pretty images of you and your fiancé as a couple to display at the wedding and throughout your home. It isnt only to get to know the photographer a bit more. The engagement session is more than all of that. Yes, those reasons are important and reasons to take engagement portraits, but the real reason that you do them is the experience it creates with your fiancé.

Destination sessions help create an amazing experience for you as a couple. You get to get away for a bit. You get to explore new locations. You get to enjoy each other’s company… AND you get images NONE of your friends will have. All of that creates an experience you will never forget. Let’s be real. That session at the local park, while it produces great pictures, it doesnt really have meaning attached to it. You met your photographer at the park. There really isnt much of an experience created from it, so in 20 years, you will likely forget most of the session.

But if you travel somewhere for your portraits, spend a day or two (or a week) exploring that location, getting away from the busy lives that we all live…. then that session will mean something to you later on. I have no met a couple who has not remembered every aspect of their trip with us, whether that was flying to Minnesota in February to get some portraits in the snow or flying to Ireland to explore castles.

Destination sessions offer an unique opportunity to have an amazing experience. Perhaps you should consider traveling for your engagement portrait session and getting portraits which you will cherish forever.