Ryan Richardson Photography is an editorial/fashion inspired wedding and portrait photographer based in Southeastern Massachusetts and serving New England. Massachusetts Wedding Photographer.
As Hurricane Sandy loomed over the East Coast, we met up with Phoebe and Mike as part of our engagement marathon at Bird Park in Walpole Massachusetts in late October. The couple met while attending school together at Johnson and Wales University in Rhode Island.
It's always thrilling when people you know are getting married, you feel much more free to butt into things and make suggestions for centerpieces (or is that all just me?). Krista and Dan were engaged during a trip to Turkey, and told me their plans during another friend's wedding over the summer (though with the ring Krista was suddenly sporting, you didn't have to be Hercules Poirot to deduce the big news). A few short months later we got together at Bird Park in Walpole, MA for their engagement session.
It was a chance to get loose, chase away some geese and crunch through the leaves. The park rambles around, with open fields and forest paths, and we took advantage of as much as we could on that gorgeous autumn day. As per usual I was bold and daring to get the right shots, braving hordes of geese, sticky mud and precarious perches for the couple. Of course, they were game too and a lot of fun to work with.
Kirsta and Dan plan to marry next August in Spencer, MA.
What is an engagement session with Ryan Richardson Photography?
It's part portrait shoot, part fashion show with a couple of ice breakers and bad jokes thrown into the mix. During your engagement session, you'll have a chance to expres yourself and become familiar with posing and your photographer. Avove all, to paraphrase a wonderfully celver ad campaign, it's a chance to illustrate your love.
Typically, we'll meet up at some lovely little spot and ramble for a little over an hour taking pictures and talking about your wedding and your relationship. It's a chance to build a connection and sense of trust before a hectic wedding day and get some great images for you to use with save the date cards, your Facebook page, newspaper announcements and even to share with family and friends as they wait for the big date.
So how do you prepare for your engagement session?