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I have saying that goes: “forget diamonds, GOOGLE is a girl’s best friend”as I Google everyone I know and I tend to find out some fairly juicy stuff.  In fact, before I meet with potential clients I just google their first names + weddings and many, many times I find their wedding website and I browse around there for a while.While it will take away some of my nosy fun, I mean this when I say: password protect your wedding websites, people! Why are you showing all of that information to the world?  There is an evil yet brilliant app called “Crash Corsage” that allows people to find out all info about the wedding that they can crash: location, time, name of bride & groom, name of their bridal party, etc.

I’m a huge, huge proponent of engagement sessions prior to your wedding as if gives you and your fiance a chance to experience what it’s like to be the focus of a camera’s attention for long periods of time, helps you bond with your photographer, let’s you try out your hair & makeup prior to the big day, and gives you gorgeous photos of you and your love.

Photographer Jasmine Star has some aaaaamazing tips on how to prep for your engagement photo session, and if I may be so bold as to add one more tip to hers? Booze. Have a drink before your session so you can really loosen up in front of the camera.

Enjoy!

These days I see so many engagement sessions styled within an inch of their lives: entire living rooms set up in fields, elaborate staging, major period costuming (i.e., Mad Men) and while there is nothing wrong with that type of drama if you are genuinely that dramatic of a couple,  in my opinion all you really need is LOVE.

Lately the summer brides are having their engagement photo shoots and stressing a bit much over what kind of “theme” to have for these sessions as the wedding blogs can sometimes make them feel like they have to do that. These few photos of one of our summer couples, Katye & Brian, completely prove that you just need each other, a great photographer, and good light.

How romantic are these photos? Kudos to Brandon-David Photography and Kayte & Brian for being so in L-O-V-E.

Next post: some tips on how to be comfortable in front of the camera for these sessions.

What a lovely surprise to see an Amber Events shout out on Christine Chang’s Blog! Christine is a phenomenal photographer who features video tutorials and advice columns for brides and budding photographers alike. We had the pleasure of going to Mexico with her for Mark & Jessica’s wedding. It was nice to see her unwind as guest for that one.  She deserves it. This is a hard working gal! Thanks CC!

Then head over to Amy Nichol’s blog and see what they are!