Amanda & Bryan’s Engagement Photos in Hawrelak Park

Lots of activity on the blog the past couple of weeks as wedding season in Edmonton kicks into high gear. Amanda & Bryan are another one of our amazing couples whose wedding we have the privilege of photographing this August. We met up with them a couple of weeks to do their engagement photos in Hawrelak Park before the mosquitoes were out in full force.

It was another beautiful spring night and after a week of rain in the city, everything in the park was really looking lush and green. We loved how Amanda & Bryan coordinated their outfits for their session. We are often asked by our couples about what they should wear for their session and our advice is to choose something you’ll both be comfortable in. You should also try to dress at the same level of formality. That doesn’t mean you have to wear a fancy ball gown & tuxedo but you should both decide whether you’re going to go for casual or slightly dressy. It doesn’t look coordinated in photos if one person goes totally casual in shorts & a t-shirt while the other person goes a little more dressy. When choosing your outfits, also try to work from the same palette like Amanda & Bryan did for their session. They chose blue as their base colour and then put together the rest of their outfits from there. The days of those family sessions where everyone is in jeans and black t-shirts are well behind us so you don’t have to match exactly but try to pull from the same palette as much as possible as it really ties things together in the photo and makes you like more unified.

Enjoy this sneak peek from their engagement session and stay tuned to the blog to see more photos from their wedding this August at the Fantasyland Hotel.