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Engagement photo shoots have become a normal part of the wedding process for engaged couples. These sessions are fun, they help you and your photographer get to know each other ahead of time, and you get photos celebrating a truly special event in your life! They showcase your personality as a couple and the love you two share. Once you get these nice, professional photos taken, you’ll obviously want to show them off! Here are 5 ways you can show off your lovely engagement photos.
1. Wedding Announcements/Save The Date Invitations
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Your engagement photos are perfect decoration for your “Save the Date” cards or wedding announcements. It feels more personal and heartfelt than just a standard design and can really show friends and family your style and personality as a couple. Not to mention it will make family members who live farther away feel included in you and your partners love story, even if they can’t make it in person. They will love keeping your “Save the Date” as a memento of the big day!
2. Reception Decorations
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It has become popular recently for couples to display their engagement photos at the reception or cocktail hour. You can create a photo display on a table so that guests can walk around and look at the pictures while they mingle and have fun. Another cool thing couples have been doing involves table centerpieces that include their engagement photos. To do this, you could have the photos printed and put into frames, or you can put them on cards, along with fun quotes or trivia about you and your fiance. You can even put your favorite engagement photo on your wedding cake or groom’s cake!
3. Home Decorations
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Your engagement photos can last beyond your wedding ceremony. marriage is the beginning of you and your fiance creating a life and a home together, and you can decorate your home with your engagement photos that commemorate your love. Like with any photos, you can have your photos printed and framed so that you can hang them on the wall. You can also create a photo book of those images to keep on your coffee table, or a photo blanket to keep on your couch. A popular thing to do is to create a calendar to use for your first year of marriage, which you can use to mark your first anniversary!
4. Family Gifts/Mementos
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Engagement photos are special and sentimental, which makes them perfect to include in gifts to family, such as parents or grandparents. You can go standard and gift them a framed photo of you and your fiance that they can place in their home. However, another cool gift idea is to create an ornament to send them. That way they can hang it on their christmas tree, or elsewhere in their home. You can also give them a magnet with your favorite engagement photo on it, or a wallet-sized version of the photo, so your loved ones can keep it close.
5. Personalized Cards/Stationary
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There are also plenty of opportunities to personalize your stationary. For instance, you can include one of your engagement photos on your “Thank You” cards you’ll send out after the wedding. As with the “Save the Dates” this will give them a very personal feel that your loved ones will appreciate. You can also use them as your Christmas/Holiday cards, or they can accompany your annual family newsletter or email that many people send out around the holidays. They can even act as virtual stationary, accompanying important announcements on your social media.
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Of course, these are just some of the many ways you can use your engagement photos. After all, you and your fiance are going through an important milestone and you deserve to have many ways to commemorate such a special time!
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