Congratulations on your engagement! Now it's time to capture the excitement of this special time with a perfect engagement session. In this blog post, I'll share some tips on how to plan a fun and memorable photo shoot.

This past weekend was full of engagement sessions for me, and I am so excited to share a few of my favorite moments. These engagement photos were taken in Dayton, Ohio at Cox Arboretum Metropark, one of the best locations to take photos. It’s super easy to get a huge variety of looks at this one little park. There are so many great spots for taking photos.

Photographing a marriage proposal is one of my favorite things to do. I love seeing the genuine joy & surprise. Hearing the story of how they met and all the planning that went into keeping everything a secret is just so fun. When Zach reached out asking me if I would photograph him proposing to Emily, I was so excited to help.

I am so excited to share a recent engagement session I photographed at The Honey Farm in Dayton, Ohio. Kenzi & Brandon will be getting married there in 2022 and so they had the unique opportunity to take their engagement photos at their wedding venue. If you have the opportunity to do that, it’s a really great chance to walk around with the photographer ahead of the big day and take some photos. It gives you a great idea of how things will look on your wedding day, and you can figure out what you love most before the actual wedding rolls around.

Summer engagement sessions are one of my absolute favorite things. It’s nice and warm outside. Everything is lush and green, and the sunsets are especially glowy- which is perfect for sunset engagement photos. This engagement session at Cox Arboretum was so much fun. During their engagement session, they had the sweetest family of photo-bombers. Scroll down to see exactly what happened! It was such a cute moment.

Spring engagement sessions officially have me swooning. This recent engagement session at the Dayton Art Institute was so much fun. Lauren and Randy have such a natural and fun connection- photographing them was literally such a joy for me. One of my favorite things about my job is seeing how a couple connects and capturing that unique dynamic in photographs so they can hold onto those moments forever.

Planning for a snowy photo session can be really difficult in Ohio. The weather changes so quickly and it’s hard to know if there will be snow or not. We were hoping for some snow for this winter engagement session at Cox Arboretum. Although there wasn’t a heavy layer of snow on the ground, it did snow the whole time, which was so beautiful.

I am over here absolutely obsessing over this adorable engagement session in downtown Dayton. Winter engagement sessions are sometimes cold and dreary, but this one was anything but that. We began our session at Dayton Beer Company, who was kind enough to allow us to take a few photos while N & K enjoyed a couple of beers inside their bar area. The large windows let in lots of light, and they brew beer right there in the middle of the room- it looks really cool.

Cox Arboretum is always at the top of my list for fall engagement session locations. This session was later in the season, in early November, but there were still lots of colorful leaves on the trees. We wanted to use the more natural landscapes as backgrounds for C & S’s engagement photos, so we opted to use the fields and trees in the park rather than the more formal gardens to get the look they had in mind.