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Engagement photos

sunnilovesunnilove member
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are these totally nesscary? and then have save the date cards as well seems like a lot of money on shoving your engagement and happiness on people in two different ways. 

whats the point in an engagement photos? who do you send them too ? I guess i feel like a "weddings" for dummies book cause i have NO idea, I want to completely cut out any unnesscary costs at ALL possible. 
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  • desertmomnmdesertmomnm
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    We didn't have them because we were getting married 4months later.
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  • sunnilovesunnilove member
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    hmm were not getting married until 2014.
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  • tiny specktiny speck member
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    They're definitely not necessary, regardless of how long your engagement is, if you don't want them. They're a pretty new thing. Same with STDs. It's fine to just call your out of town friends and family and let them know the date in advance of the invitations so they can make travel arrangements; just be sure to really send invitations to everyone you've verbally invited. This is how we've handled our guest list, and we aren't doing engagement photos either: I'll look back on wedding photos, but engagement photos just seem pointless to me.
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  • cwaggoner07cwaggoner07 member
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    We have so many pictures from throughout our relationship, for our STD's and pics at the reception, we just used those. I like how it's a collection of pictures from different places and stages in our relationship as opposed to one cookie cutter set of pics.
    Nothing wrong with them, but I prefer looking at pictures of couples actually DOING things.
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  • caiters91caiters91 member
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    I will also be getting married in 2014, but we are getting engagment photos done. It is entirely up to you though and what makes you and your husband to be happy.. We want to have a small photo shoot in the spring and then another later on  I like having that to look forward to since the wedding is awhile off but like I said it's totally your decision :)
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  • ArtTeacher23ArtTeacher23 member
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    Same here - not getting married till 2014, but we did have engagement pics taken this past Aug.  We plan on using them for our save the date magents (I feel that the better quality photos will print better than our self-taken photos).  Plus it was a nice way to meet our photographer & get comfortable having to pose in front of a camera.  Also they gave us a discount when we booked the wedding package with them since we had done the engagement photos with them (along with a free 16x20 photo from them) - we practilly got the e-pics for free because of the wedding discount!  But choosing to take engagemnt pics is totally up to you! Our friends had problems with thier original photographer as their e-pics did not come out as the quality that they expected or were promised.  So for them it was good to get them done and then were able to get their deposit back & look for someone much better.
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  • ljsquintzljsquintz member
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    We did not do engagement photos, it was just an additional expense for us, although some photographers include it in their package.  I think the only benefit is getting comfortable with your photographer and their shooting style.
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  • erinlin25erinlin25 member
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    my best friend is a photographer and wanted to do ours for us, so we did them and it was actually a lot of fun.  We did use them for our save the dates and it was just nice to have some professonial pics that were not the typical pics that I have used of us in the past.  They are totally a personal preference, so do not feel obligated.  And other PPs are correct how many photographers will include them as a part of your photography package to get aquainted with the couple before the wedding day. 

    Same with the save the dates-- we were going to skip that since our engagement is less than a year, but since we had so many OOT guests at the end of the day it was better to send the 70 STDs rather than making 70 phone calls to let them know the actual date decided on. 
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  • airxx1airxx1 member
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    i think it depends for each couples. We did not placed it on STD but we printed couple of best engagement pictures and displayed those on our wedding for our guests. Now, after we got married, we are glad that we had engagement photos. But once again, it depends for each couples.
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