How to Prepare Your Groom for Engagement Photos! // tips for brides
Sooo, chances are, you, dear bride, are pumped out of your mind for your engagement photos!! You’ve been anticipating not only getting engaged, but celebrating that moment with fun and beautiful engagement photos! And why shouldn’t you be excited!? This is truly an insanely special time in your life that deserves all the attention in the world! And it also deserves photos you love combined with a great experience!
While you are the excited one, in my experience, most grooms aren’t quite as excited… Once in a blue moon the guy will be looking forward to photos, but more often than not…. they’re like “Do we really have to do this?”
In my opinion, that lack of interest on their part, or potentially even nervousness on their part is due to lack of knowing how this shoot will go! They probably expect the worst — it’s going to be so awkward, I’m going to feel silly, our photographer is going to make us quack like ducks, so on and so forth. So, good news, I aim to make it the furthest thing from awkward, I act silly so you don’t have to, and I’ve never once made someone quack like a duck ….. but, I mean, if you’re into that… I’m down!
Like I mentioned in the post of How to Prepare For Your Engagement Session, one of the gifts I give newly booked couples is that 86-page online magazine, the Bridal Guide, and in it are 18 pages dedicated to the very topic of engagement sessions. Information on how to prepare your groom is definitely covered in there!! But today, I wanted to share just a few of those tips with you here, so let’s get into those!
Three tips for preparing your groom for your engagement photos!!
- 1. Is he worried he will let you down? Fair question! Maybe your guy is worried that he will somehow let you down during these photos! Since he isn’t as excited as you are, or maybe because he’s afraid of being awkward the entire time. I have good news for you both — most guys walk away at the end of their engagement session with me saying the words “Ya know what, that wasn’t bad, that was actually fun!” — mark my words, your guy may very well surprise not only you, but himself, with his ultimate reaction to how this whole thing goes down! SO knowing that ahead of time, maybe go easy on him, and assure him that you believe in him!!
- 2. Show him some previous shoots!! Take a little time and pull up a few of my past engagement sessions that you love the look of, and sit down with your guy while he looks at them. Sometimes a visual goes a long way! If he has a chance to see that this isn’t going to be all about standing stiffly and awkwardly smiling at the camera over and over again, it should really help calm any jitters he has! Point out how the guys in the photos are just hugging their ladies, holding onto them, laughing with them, and generally just being playful together — those are the key points he should focus on!
- 3. Lots of touching! Let your guy know that for every ONE photo we take of you two smiling nicely for the camera (for Grandma, of course!) we’ll be taking like TEN of you two just engaging together, having fun, and touching! My point here? — let him know he gets to touch you, A LOT… how the heck could that not be the final stamp of approval on this whole ordeal for him?!
Like I said before, and like I’ll say again and again (and again!!) — engagement photos, all photos, should be fun!! I’ll do everything in my power to ensure that we have fun, and you guys should just plan on being relaxed, giggly, and prepared to have fun with each other while I do all the work!!
Did you miss yesterday’s post?
