The Second Time Around...

As in my previous post, I mentioned that we had a second round of engagement photos because the first time my curls ended up falling out and we mistakenly left the most important photos (for our Save The Dates) as last on our agenda. So, Tom asked his cousin to help us re-create the Save The Date photos in front of a tree. This time, we did it in Tom's hometown at the park where our actual wedding reception will be. :)

I also learned a lesson from the first photo shoot - don't bother curling my hair the second time around, just in case it was really hot out again. Sometimes it's nice to have a redo... although it's a scary reminder there is no redo when it comes to the actual wedding! Anyways, Tom's cousin went above and beyond-- He actually stayed with us for quite a while taking extra pictures as well.

First, here's a teaser of how the second round of Save The Date's turned out!

Haha! Tom did not like this one when we attempted cheezin' but I think it's cute. I edited the text on there since we did a few with a blank piece of paper.

Here's the rest!




We were really happy with all of them...BUT the actual date 10/2/10 ones! It was a bit windy and unfortunately we didn't get a good shot of the paper flat with the date. So now what were we going to do when we compiled our Save The Date photo strips? My hair is curled in the first set of photos by Brian, and now in the second set it's not... so our thoughts were something like this: We can't merge them, can we? Oh yes, we can, and so we did. (The idea of a third photo shoot could have been a"charm" but Tom isn't nearly into posing for a camera like I am, so we made the best of it for our actual Save The Date photo strip.)

Before I show you how our actual Save The Dates and the photo strip turned out, here's some other photos by Tom's cousin that we really liked.






Did you have any bumps in the road when it came to your engagement photos and the bigger picture of using them for Save The Dates?