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We had our “official” engagement shoot with our amazing photographer on Friday night. I can’t talk enough about how awesome Ellie is, and how anyone needing a photographer in/near Boston/Providence should probably use her. She. Is. Awesome.

Anyway, I have my first evening with Fancee in a few days (she was gone for the weekend) and I promised myself I wouldn’t spend a lot of it on the internets, so there won’t be anymore comments/deep insights, just some pretty pictures for you!

Photo by Ellie Leonardsmith

Photo by Ellie Leonardsmith

Photo by Ellie Leonardsmith

I kind of can’t believe how amazing these pictures are. I’m not sure what we’ll be doing with them all yet, so I don’t want to share many - I’m feeling protective of them, but they are too beautiful not to share a couple!

I had a read in a few different places that doing an engagement photo session can really help get you comfortable with your photographer and with having your picture taken, and I didn’t think much of that until I experienced it. It took us a little while to settle in, but then it was so fun. It was especially nice because Ellie is a good friend of ours, and we got to have amazing pizza and beer afterward. That, my friends, is a good photo shoot.

Some more of Ellie’s awesome skills:

Okay, so much for sharing just a couple of pictures. But OMG, pretty!!!

So here’s what this felt like: getting dressed up in things we felt attractive in (for me, of course, one dress, one dykey shorts-and-collared-shirt outfit) and walking around our favorite, important places being affectionate. Things are hard off and on these days - something I’ve talked about before - and we just walked and talked about those things and how we love each other and do want to get married and will do the work. It was wonderful to have a space where we were just supposed to be affectionate: no talking about the hard things or the piles. And then, as I mentioned before, we got amazing pizza, beer, and time with good friends.

Then Fancee left for the weekend and I was kind of a bum. Yes, I enjoy time to myself but sometimes there’s just too much of it.

What do you do when you’re home alone? Also, how did you find your photographer? And lastly, did I mention mine is awesome?