Wedding Blog

Lindsi (our photog) just sent over the photos from our engagement photo session a couple of weeks ago! We chose the beautiful campus of the University of Georgia as our backdrop, and the photos turned out AMAZING. Take a look for yourself!

Here are highlights from our engagement photo session with Lindsi Jones of Lindsi Jones Photography. Click on the photos for bigger versions:

We started off with pictures in the Founders’ Garden, which is still beautiful in the middle of winter with no full blooms.

After that we moved towards North Campus to get photos with the historic buildings of UGA and of course, the Arch! The Arch picture is probably my favorite, because it just captures everything I love about Athens: the university, downtown, and the love of my life.

Next we visited the gorgeous Tanner Building. It’s a renovated warehouse that is now used for art classes. This building is one of my favorites on campus, even though I’ve never even been inside it!

Lastly, we were supposed to take photos inside Sanford Stadium where the Georgia Bulldogs play on Saturdays in the fall. However, the man who was supposed to let us in never showed up! ARGH! I’m just glad Lindsi thought to get this photo outside the ticket office before we left.

I am extremely thrilled with the outcome of the shoot! I am planning on using the photos to make a yearbook-style guest book for the wedding reception, and Lindsi is helping me look into albums, so there will definitely be more on that later.

Being the perfectionist that I am, I would have done a few things differently for the session, though. Mostly, I wouldn’t have worried about getting my makeup done professionally. I needed new MAC foundation anyways, so thought I might as well get a free appointment out of it for the engagement photos. I asked for a very natural look, with just a little emphasis on the eyes using neutral colors. However, they put a new girl on me (even though I had an appointment with someone else, who was very experienced), and she basically did makeup 101. She applied tons of black eyeliner and purple eyeshadow, because purple is the color that’s supposed to make brown eyes stand out. She also gave me HUGE fake lashes that I had to cut down when I got home. I ended up looking very unnatural in a lot of the close-up photos. What’s more, the appointment took twice as long, forcing us to push back the photo session and lose critical light!

The other things were pretty much out of our control. We wanted pictures of us ringing the Chapel Bell (a big tradition after football victories), but there was a service in session and we were prohibited from doing so. Then there was the stadium fiasco, which was really upsetting. I wish we had thought to go around to the front of the stadium and get a few photos with the back of the JumboTron. But hindsight’s 20/20 on that one. Like I said, I’m very glad we got what we did, and all of the photos were fantastic! Lindsi was such a pleasure to work with, and I can’t wait to work with her again during my bridal session, rehearsal dinner, the wedding ceremony/reception, and *drum roll* the boudoir session that I just added on! More about that later as well!

Anyways, if you’d like to see even more from our engagement session or just more of Lindsi’s portfolio, visit her blog here! And if you’re looking to have a professional photographer for any of your photo needs, I highly recommend her. She’s also willing to travel, so don’t be scared if you think you live too far away from the Valdosta area. Just let her know what you’re looking for and she’ll work with you!