The best thing about planning a wedding is testing cakes.  I'm not going to even try to compete with that.  Free cake is magic.  What I can do, is come in a distant second, giving you the opportunity to remember in the hectic messy rush of planning a wedding, why you're doing all this planning in the first place.  Think of your engagement shoot as your day off from all that stress.

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You're both someplace with no pressures or demands; you're all dressed up, and either somewhere super-scenic, or laughing way too hard in the studio.  There aren't a lot of easier, more productive ways to spend an hour.  And what you get from it lasts the rest of your life.  The ideal excuse to take a romantic walk, tell somebody who's actually interested, about how you fell in love, and come away from it with images that actually show the way you feel, without contrivance, heavy posing, or fake smiles.  This is my favorite kind of photoshoot, I think, because it's genuine, and natural and fun.

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Offered on-location at one of our partner venues, or at the Hartford studio.

Let's be honest, so much of who we love comes down to what a couple loves together. Shared obsessions, hobbies, and fandoms, are what set so many couples on the path to where they are, it's only natural to get those things involved.  You met by being the only two people dressed as Jedi, at the Star Wars midnight premiere?  Your World Of Warcraft guild in college introduced you?  She proposed via a D&D Campaign?

These things are central to the story that you tell when people ask you how you met.  Don't leave them out, in favor of something generic, when you have the chance to bring those things to life and tell your story!

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Power Couple engagement shoots are built to bring a shared reality to life, so to help that along, they come with credit for high end compositing and special effects on up to 10 of your shoot's images, along with the standard fare your moms are asking for.  We'll customize the shoot to build you images that speak to who you really are together, in this world, and any others where the two of you reside.

Kind of a Wed-Engagement Hybrid.  Whether you ran away to Vegas, tied the knot during a Deployment, or got married on a cruise, or if you just went the pragmatic route and the only guest invited to your wedding was your friendly County Clerk, you still have family and friends you want to mention your new relationship status to.

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Enter "The Elope" - a custom styled-wedding-shoot designed to get you all the images you'll miss by forgoing a traditional ceremony.  You can bring up to a dozen other people to take part, comprising parents, maid-of-honor and best-man, whoever you call family.

Or you can stick to just the two of you, and play it by-the-book.  The goal is getting you the photos you miss out on, for everything from social medial to thank-you-cards for gifts that people mail, and even credit for a good-sized canvas print to hang when your place is all set up.  
 

Whether Elvis married you last week, or you didn't have the budget ten years ago to hire a photographer for your simple backyard wedding, but now you'd really like to do it right, "The Elope" means that you don't need to go without great wedding images.