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Engagement Photos

Hi - we have our engagement photos this Saturday and I was curious if anybody had any advice on what to wear.  Our photographer said no bright colors, i.e. red, or check patterns but i wanted to hear it from other brides.  I was thinking of a casual a-line black dress and sandals and my FI will be wearing a golf shirt and khakis.  Thoughts?

Re: Engagement Photos

  • maddie7maddie7 member
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    edited December 2011
    That sounds nice. Similar to what we did, but I wore a light blue/white striped summer dress with a blue sweater.
  • mbcdefgmbcdefg member
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    edited December 2011
    I wore a purple sweater and MH wore a grey sweater, and we both wore jeans.
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  • edited December 2011
    Haha! We broke your photographers rules then. I wore a cranbury colored dress and MH wore a dress shirt with a checkered pattern (although not small). When we changed into our "casual" clothes I wore purple and MH wore a green shirt that had a pattern.

    I think our pictures came out just fine.
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  • edited December 2011
    For ours, we did casual first - I wore a black short sleeve shirt  & jeans, FI wore a maroon polo & jeans.  Then we did dressy - I wore a sleeveless empire waist dress that was a dark green w/large white flowers, FI wore a purple button down w/black dress pants.

    As for shoes, I tried to wear heels, but we were in the park, so it was hard to walk on the grass (I had to keep taking them off to walk, then put them back on when we were shooting).
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  • edited December 2011
    That is odd.  I encourage bright colors, esp in spring.  You want to avoid busy patterns in general, I also tell them to try and avoid white
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  • tstrayer27tstrayer27 member
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    edited December 2011
    I agree with USER about the bright colors and thinks it helps add a nice pop. The ones we took in the fall I wore a bright turquoise sweater and since I'm blonde with blue eyes I think it definitely add that pop. We are doing another engagment session with the photographer we hired for our wedding next month just to get a feel for working with him prior to the wedding. Not sure what we are going to wear yet.

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