Old Town Alexandria Engagement + Tips
If you’re planning your wedding, let’s talk tips for engagement session locations!
Weddings can be filled with a million different decisions for the couple. Venues, guest lists, menu options, outfit styles, wedding party members, vendors, that’s not even cracking the surface! It’s extremely easy to get burnt out on choosing the details even if you’re a decisive person to begin with!
So, when my couples takes advantage of my engagement sessions, it’s important to make the decision as simple as possible by figuring out what’s most important to you!
Some couples prefer to go the opposite direction and want engagement photos that are a completely different aesthetic than their wedding. Getting married on a farm? Take engagement photos in an edgy urban neighborhood like the Union Market neighborhood of Washington D.C. Having a destination wedding on the beach? Why not take cozy engagement photos in your own home?
Other couples want to be transported with picturesque landscape photos. In that case, pack your bags, it’s time for a hike into the wilderness to grab those engagement shots.
And still others want to capture photos in places that they’ve spent time together as a couple. Places where memories were made in their love story.
Some other ideas are to go for walk around your neighborhood and grab a coffee or a beverage, explore a museum or a vintage shop, watch the sunset from a rooftop, get artsy in an outdoor parking garage or an underpass.
The beautiful thing about this is that there is no wrong answer!
James and Scott decided on Old Town Alexandria for their engagement photos because they simply fell in love with the location when they visited together!
After meeting in DC, the pair settled down in Virginia to get away from the Washington hustle, and this cozy little spot in historic Virginia was the perfect place to take their photos.
I am very much looking forward to capturing their wedding day at the equally gorgeous Mt. Washington Mill Dye House next Fall when it’s awash in all of the beautiful autumn tones. Thanks for hanging out with me James and Scott!
