Engagement Pictures: What I learned

(I was totally trying to schedule this post for later this week... but that didn't work! I guess you get two posts today)

I had meant to finish writing this and post it before the wedding... but it as it turns out your very own wedding WILL turn you in to a crazy person a few weeks beforehand no matter how relaxed you thought you were. So, anyway...

Early on in the wedding planning I insisted on a hiring a photographer and I was going to be incredibly picky with regards to that photographer. Afterall, I graduated with a degree in photography and this is my wedding! There won't be a chance to do it over so I had better get good photos. Well, after hours of tears and searching I finally hired a photographer.

There was much rejoicing! I was going to get my pictures and they were going to be wonderful and we were going to look beautiful and perfect! And then we had our engagement session (a mere month before the wedding) and I learnerd... err... had to face reality.

Yeah, we can sorta look like blog people, but we are still really dorky (out of 50 pictures my photographer gave us I think I like maybe 5, those are the ones you see here) and I guess I don't actually like looking like blog people. It feels fake because it just not who we are. I like our real life.

We are so mushy! It is ridiculous. You would not believe we have been together 3.5 years. But hey, maybe that is a good thing too. I hope we never get sick of holding hands and kissing. I just wish we had some great pictures where were both looking at the camera.

I look so much younger than Dan! I think he looks his age and he is actually three years younger than me. Just yesterday someone thought I was in highschool. I get that a lot, but for some reason I didn't see it until I looked at our pictures. Of course everyone tells me this a good thing too. (I am sure it will be... it is just right now it is hard to get people to take you seriously when they think you are 16.)

So, in conclusion... I learned a lot. We are young and in love and have plenty of time to get our pictures done again. And even if we never do, we have a great life together that I wouldn't trade for a million perfect photos.