Engagement Photos Yes or No?

This exactly - what April said! We haven't gotten ours done yet, but our photographer includes a 30 minute engagement session when we booked him! My FH and I don't have any nice pictures together so its something I want to get done. We were going to get ours done April 2020 in Arizona but then COVID happened so after that we really had no intention on getting them done.

We had engagement photos and I am very pro getting them done. We had a BLAST. It was a really fun afternoon getting to know our photographer and we have a bunch of memories because we all just acted goofy together and really clicked. I'm so happy to have the photos in my house. We had never had professional photos taken before, so that was our first time, and I think it helped us relax a bit with someone posing us so that maybe for our wedding it will go a bit smoother.

We did them and I’m so glad that we did! It gave us a chance to get comfortable in front of the camera with each other and with our photographer before the big day. My husband (fiancé at the time) had a million questions about what to do, and our photographer gave us direction and made us look and feel so natural. I think it’s definitely worth it!

Photographer included them in our package, honestly most do these days. The pictures turned out amazing and I'm glad to have them. Highly recommend getting a photographer that you enjoy talking to, it made it a much more enjoyable experience than posing in front of a camera has the potential to be.

So glad we did engagement photos! It gave us an opportunity to get to know our photographer, practice posing, and get comfortable in front of the camera. Plus we had some awesome photos to use for our save the dates

We got them, and I'm pleased we did - we wanted to feel comfortable and confident with our photographer, know him a little better, and like we knew what to expect on the day. In addition to that, we have a significant height difference - 45cm (almost 18 inches) and while we don't want to hide it, we wanted the photographer to have a chance to work with that before the day, so he would at least have some idea of how to approach it.

Plus... you'll never be in this exact place and time again. I think a lot of people fear it coming across as 'extra'. But no one needs to know you've taken them, if you'd rather not. It's a nice thing to have copies of to look back at one day.

Oh! And a final point - I know quite a few people who had a difficult, diva photographer. I was anxious that we get along well with ours since we'd be spending so much time with him on our wedding day, so our engagement shoot really just reinforced that we'd chosen the right guy.