Many Reasons For Engagement Pictures

There are many reasons it is important to take engagement photos once you have become engaged.  An engagement session with a professional photographer is without a doubt one of the greatest services you and your fiancé can take advantage of prior to your wedding. As a couple who likely has never been photographed professionally before, the engagement session is a valuable tool every couple should utilize or insist upon.  Some couples may feel it’s a waste of time or is not necessary, however there are many valuable reasons why you will benefit from utilizing this opportunity.  Once you have your engagement images there are many things you can do with them. They can be given, as gifts to the family and parents, who especially appreciate photographs of their children.

Your engagement picture will become the centerpiece to all other photographs in your home as the years go by.  It will bring back memories of this magical time, when you two were so smitten with love for each other, and will show your children, visitors, both family and friends that come into your home, how very important being a couple truly is to you.  Eventually it can also serve to prove to your children, that at one time you did have hair, and the pot belly was a later addition, that you were young and beautiful, and in style. The fact is, without this photo your children only look at you in the present DeFabis Photography offers a wide range of engagement picture products including;  

    •    a wide selection of fine - art canvas prints
    •    save the date magnets and postcards

    •    facebook images and youtube slideshow
    •    signature boards


Announce Your Proposal With Engagement Pictures

You can send an engagement picture to your hometown newspaper to announce your marriage. This is usually important to your parents. They may be used in your wedding program, invitation, or in a save-the-date card. Many of our couples use engagement pictures to make save-the-date magnets. I still walk in to friends' homes and see our faces on people’s refrigerator, it was a big hit.  If you do choose to self publish your engagement images, we have a great slideshow designed just for facebook to share all of your favorite images.  Whatever you choose to do, I encourage you to get creative, go out with your photographer, have some fun and create some art. In the end you are the ones who win.  On the wedding day there is lots to think about.  Knowing and liking your vendors, especially the photographer, is significant in the success of your wedding and will help keep you focused on the real reason you are having a wedding in the first place, each other.

Where Do We Photograph Engagement Pictures?

Basically, we can accommodate any place within the Indianapolis metro area that bears special meaning to you as a couple. There are several places though, that bear special meaning for us! We are big fans of a local architectural salvage company.  It holds endless opportunities to find interesting backgrounds at any time of day, has several spots that offer a unique approach to your portraits.  We have also obtained quite nice engagement pictures from other Indianapolis locations such as IMA, Eagle Creek Park, Downtown Indy.  A fraction of our couples have had sessions in other cities such as Chicago, French Lick, Bloomington and even Las Vegas !What's Included In The Engagement Portrait Sitting?You will usually spend 1 to 2 hours with Joe DeFabis.  He will photograph you in about a dozen locations and then select your best 16-20 images for final portraits. Within 10 days after the session you will be able to view them at the studio on the big screen.  You will receive your favorite pose in a 11x14 print.