Take a strolling meals tour to your engagement shoot

Due to social media, we have been inundated with images of what engagement images ought to appear to be: nose-nuzzling, influencer-grade American Eagle advertisements. For digital camera shy people like me and my companion Anthony, the mere considered immaculately posed pics made us really feel stiff and awkward.

We knew we needed our engagement shoot to seize our goofy and adventurous sides, however sun-dappled, wind-in-hair images on a seashore simply weren’t it. After we considered our favourite recollections collectively, they concerned meals and exploring new locations.

So, we booked a weekend getaway to a metropolis we would by no means been to earlier than, St. Augustine, and requested Alex of Alex and Cammy Pictures to spend the afternoon with us capturing our journey on a self-guided strolling meals tour engagement shoot.

SPOILER: There are a couple of images I am going to share later the place I used to be like “D’oh! What the hell was I pondering right here?” However I had fun laughing at myself and I hope you’ll too.

Anthony and I had been each feeling a bit self-conscious after we arrived on the shoot. We had made the error of spending the morning within the Florida solar which resulted in dramatic tan strains and sunburns that no quantity of photo-editing might save. However truthfully, Alex made us really feel so comfy and we had a lot enjoyable ingesting, consuming, and traipsing round historic St. Augustine that we stopped caring about what we appeared like on digital camera.

By the top of the shoot, there have been pizza stains on my gown, Anthony had cannoli cream in his beard, and none of it mattered as a result of we had been having a blast.

Alex even managed to pose us, sure, POSE US as soon as he might see we had loosened up.

Anthony and I had been completely nervous that our meals tour engagement shoot thought can be a bust. How enticing can stuffing your face with cannoli actually be? However after we obtained our images again, our hearts soared. We did not look awkward. We appeared like a pair have enjoyable, and that made us look fucking superior! Even within the ever so dreaded posed pics.

Every photograph was bursting with the vitality we needed to convey to the world: a enjoyable, playful, and adventurous staff able to tackle the subsequent chapter of our lives collectively.

Oh, and listed below are the foolish images as promised.

So if you happen to’re on the fence about your nontraditional engagement shoot, that is your signal to JUST DO IT! Cease worrying about what your Save The Dates will appear to be on Grandma’s fridge and give attention to a shoot that displays who you’re as a pair.

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Concerning the Writer: Suki

By day, Suki teaches screenwriting and sketch comedy. By evening, she’s the Assistant Editor and Social Media Supervisor of Offbeat Bride. She loves exploring the intersections of range, tradition, and cash within the wedding ceremony business on her IG account @2buckchuckbride. In between crying over strangers’ wedding ceremony images and making herself snigger, she likes to pretends she’s a sommelier.