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Joey
WeddingWire Admin May 2015 Maryland

Keep or Skip: Engagement photos?

Joey, on August 7, 2017 at 11:34 Posted in Wedding Tests 0 139

Hello everyone! We're playing "Keep or Skip" this week with popular wedding traditions! This is a little game to have some fun and to learn about your wedding plans and tastes. Reply in the comments with your opinions Smiley smile

So...

Are you taking engagement photos? Or skipping them?

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Read more about taking great engagement photos here!

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139 Comments

Latest activity by Clare, on September 4, 2020 at 13:22
  • Clare
    Frequent user August 2021 Manitoba
    Clare ·
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    Definitely. We just had our session yesterday and I’m excited to see how they will turn out. Will shares some faves once we have them
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  • Amelia
    Master October 2020 New Brunswick
    Amelia ·
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    Keep! Here's one of my faves. We're keeping a lot of them secret for Christmas gifts.
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  • Kris
    Frequent user October 2019 Nevada
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    We will definitely be doing engagement pics! We are bad at taking pictures of ourselves so these may be it for us lol. Plus we want to take some with his daughter too.

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  • A
    Super September 2020 Ontario
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    We're getting ours done at the end of August - can't wait Smiley smile

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  • Alix
    Expert June 2021 Saskatchewan
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    We got engagement photos done. I love them!

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  • Andrea
    Devoted January 2021 Ontario
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    We've already done them, however we may actually need to take a few new pics since.. my fh had dreads and has since cut them off since the engagement pics, so we will have to retake some pics, even if it's just a few for our save the dates.

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  • Monique
    Devoted August 2020 Saskatchewan
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    Definitely keep, I love photography so much I wish I could take ours myself haha

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  • Amanda
    Super June 2019 Ontario
    Amanda ·
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    Keep... We haven't had ours yet and our wedding is in June.. ooops.

    BUT it comes included with our photographer and it's a great way to get familiar with each other... so even if we do them a week before the wedding, we're still doing them.

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  • Stephanie
    Frequent user July 2019 Quebec
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    Keep! Although ours was a short session because the photographer had pneumonia, they turned out great!

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  • Sara
    Newbie November 2019 Ontario
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    Keep!! i wasn't planning on doing engagement photos but i'm so glad i did! LOVE my photos and my photographer was kind enough to let us bring our dogs for a few of the pictures and now we have a family photo too!

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  • Rachel
    Frequent user July 2019 Ontario
    Rachel ·
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    Keep!! I don't like having my picture taken, but my partner and I decided it was important, since we don't have many pictures of us. It turned out to be a LOT of fun!! So glad we did it!
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  • Andrea
    Devoted January 2021 Ontario
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    We already did our engagement pictures. We loved them, too! Keep!

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  • Stefanie
    Frequent user October 2019 Ontario
    Stefanie ·
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    Keep! we did our engagement pictures together last month and chose to honour our paternal grandmothers in the photos. we used a location that is named after my Fiance's paternal grandmothers maiden name, and i wore my paternal grandmothers jewelry in the photos.

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  • Geneviève
    VIP September 2020 Ontario
    Geneviève ·
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    My FMIL is quite gifted with photography and wanted to take our engagement photos in the worst way. Her photos turned out wonderfully and we saved the added expense.

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  • A
    Curious October 2020 Ontario
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    We seem to be one the few couples that will be skipping this. We live overseas and it's just not done here. Actually, it's slowly seeping in, bit it's still widely unknown. Also, my FH wouldn't really be done for it. He prefers to take pictures than to be in them.
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  • Kaisha
    Super March 2019 Nova Scotia
    Kaisha ·
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    Keeping, my FH wanted to skip them but I eventually explained to him the importance.

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  • Jessie
    Expert September 2018 Ontario
    Jessie ·
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    Skipped. I wanted to but we ran out of time

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  • B
    Frequent user September 2018 Ontario
    Brittany ·
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    We did our engagement photos. Still waiting to get them back. I definitely recommend them! Gives you time to get comfortable with your photographer!! Ours is great
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  • Marcia
    Super August 2018 Manitoba
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    We took engagement photos! Our friend is also a photographer so we got a great deal!

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  • Rachael
    Super October 2019 Ontario
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    I second what Brittany said below, though my fiancé and I haven't done ours yet!

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  • Brittany
    British Columbia
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    Our photography package includes them. I think it's a great way to get to know how your photographer's style, get comfortable together, and also, learn how to be photographed if you haven't had professional photos before (*ahem* me and my fiance)...

    Also I will be using these photos on our wedding website, too!

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  • Bianca
    Master August 2019 Ontario
    Bianca ·
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    We're taking them purely because they're included in our photography package, otherwise we wouldn't take them.

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  • Kathleen
    Frequent user October 2019 Ontario
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    Keep! We actually have had multiple engagement sessions!
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  • Kris
    Frequent user June 2018 British Columbia
    Kris ·
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    Keep, definitely want to keep pictures that have us looking all lovey and cute, lol.

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  • Victoria
    Expert November 2019 Ontario
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    Keeeeeep!

    I love pictures, and we will also be using them for the save the dates/decor at hte wedding.

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  • Holly
    Expert June 2019 Ontario
    Holly ·
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    Keeping! I am a huge photography nut! I absolutely love to document everything so this is big for me. It is also included in our photography package.
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  • Victoria
    Expert November 2019 Ontario
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    Keeping but only because they are included in our photography package. Although its nice to have engagement pics, I plan on spending my whole life with Timmy. Realistically these pics will be used for save the dates, some fb/insta posts, and then hide away in an album somewhere. The wedding photos are what I'm most concerned about!!!

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  • Stephanie
    Master July 2018 Alberta
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    Keeping! It's a nice keepsake, and a great way to get know the photographers and their style and for them to get to know us!

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  • Kait
    Curious August 2018 Ontario
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    Keeping! Our photographer and videographer is a very good friend of mine, so I believe we’ll just be doing a few pictures (4-5) over the holidays, just to have a few! The fiancé hates pictures, so the less suffering for him, the better lol.
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  • Ashley
    Expert March 2018 Ontario
    Ashley ·
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    We did engagement photos and it was great!

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  • Bethany
    Super July 2018 Alberta
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    100% love my engagement photos! They were included in our package too! So definitely keep!
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  • Shaina
    Frequent user April 2019 Ontario
    Shaina ·
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    I was thinking skip but now I might ask my sister to take a couple.
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