Weddingbee Blog

I mentioned before that our engagement photographer Kelli gave us 1000 photos from our engagement shoot. This is not her standard procedure, but was just a little perk that came along with being her former roommate. We’ll also be getting a free newborn session when our first child is born.

I am restraining myself from showing you every single one of those photos, as most people around me are saying that many of them look exactly the same (which they do not!), but we narrowed them down to about 100 favorites, most of which we plan on showing you. I am telling you this, because if you hate them, now is the time to tell me, before I work on four other glorious, photo-laden posts. But I enjoy the photos (especially since they are of me and my beloved) and I hope you will as well! You can count on my attempt at some witty commentary as a nice little bonus.

We started the day with Mr. Avocado in business casual attire for our dressy shots. It was easy for him to do a quick change because we were shooting at the hotel we were staying at.

In the hallway of the hotel we were staying at. They weren’t shy about color in Mexico.

We both felt so awkward at first.

We learned that kissing helped us relax just a little bit.

I returned some cute little mustard flats I had bought and went with my favorite red heels.

Kelli must have done some Photoshop magic on this shot. My calves certainly don’t look that good in real life.

Can you see the palm tree reflection running across the bottom of my dress? That is an in-camera effect. It’s like magic!

I think weird things are funny, like this sign on the hotel property designating that particular spot as the “Gathering Place”. We had never seen an allotment of space such as this before, so we gathered.

Isn’t this picture pretty?

I’m so happy I found someone who looks at me like this.

Kelli rented a tilt-shift lens for the trip, and I love the resulting photos. You can see how the lower half of our bodies are slightly out of focus here.

We loved these rocks, so we clamored out over them. After some fun poses, we wanted to keep climbing out further and we asked Kelli to take some “far away” shots (which I imagined would look dreamy).

Here we are jumping from boulder to boulder, while I was still in my red heels. Mr. Avocado was obviously a city boy because it took him a little bit longer to get there. A sad side story: while we were climbing, I stepped on his hand, putting full pressure on it with my heel. The worst part is that we don’t even like any of the resulting pictures enough to post them. All of that work turned out to be for nothing. I will point out that I don’t think Kelli really wanted to take them, but she indulged my silly ideas. I’ll listen to her from now on, I think.

Things got a little steamy at times.

This is the photo that I immediately set as my desktop background while looking through all the pictures. I want to gobble Mr. Avocado up, I think he looks so adorable.

Posting this photo is my way of acknowledging how lucky I feel to have Danish blood running through my veins. Hopefully I can pass down the clear complexion gene.

My advice when it comes to engagement photos? Don’t spend all your time staring straight into the camera and smiling. The picture below tells more about our relationship than a similar portrait shot ever could.

I’m a face smasher. As in, when I kiss, I like to go right in for the kill. Mr. Av spent a lot of time teaching me to hold back a little bit.

We ended up with more than enough photos like this. The kind that make me wonder, “What could make this guy want to eat my face? And why would I find such behavior so amusing?”

A contender for our bedroom wall. Kelli prompted us to strike this pose, but that didn’t make the sentiment any less genuine.

More to come, including “Make the face you would make when…”, adventures in finding the perfect beach, an almost proposal at sunset, and some wet and sandy fun.

*All photos by Kelli Nicole