Engagement Photos

So, yesterday we had our engagement photos taken. We scheduled it for 8am because of how hot it is right now. Honestly, though, I am not sure how much 8am helped as it was about 95 degrees at 8am. I was referred to Photos by Ali and I was very pleased with her. She was very upbeat and knew what she was doing. I was very thankful for her because for the past few weeks I was struggling with other photographers returning my calls or emails. I thought that was crazy. I don’t know if the photographers just weren’t interested because they were only doing the engagement photos and not the wedding photos since we are having a destination wedding. I also thought that maybe they just don’t want to do engagement photos in this heat, but whatever the reason its bad business to ignore requests. After the few weeks of bad luck it was refreshing to speak to Ali on the phone and hear her excitement about doing the photos. We did a last minute shopping on Friday night because Andy needed a couple new shirts. I wanted one outfit with jeans and a nice top and another shoot more relaxed with me in a sun dress and Andy in shorts.

We woke up Saturday morning to clouds in the sky. I was extremely bummed because I wanted the Arizona blue sky and she sun shining bright, but no; with my luck I get one of the 15 days out of the year where it’s not sunny. How does that happen? It’s sunny here, on average, 350 days a year. How do we get the cloudy day? I figured, oh well, the show must go on.

We met the photographer in downtown Phoenix for the first location and the first thing Ali says is that we have the best day for a photo shoot. I told her how I was bummed about the lack of sunshine, but she said the clouds make for the best pictures, so that put me in a better mood. Once we arrived at the location I realized that Ali hit the spot when she chose this particular location. It was so adorable with interesting looking old buildings and I am just so excited to see the photos.

After we were completely sweaty we traveled over to South Mountain, where we changed in the car, for our second shoot. This was also very beautiful for the photos. Ali sure knew how to pick the locations for the photo shoot. I wasn’t sweating as bad once I got the jeans off and was chilling in the sun dress. I was just worried how my hair was holding up. Ali took some more great shots that we got to see on her camera. Now I just can’t wait to see the final photos. She is going to drop the disk in the mail at the end of the week as we purchased the rights to all the pictures. I can’t wait and I am so excited to see them. I will share them once we get them.