Test-Driving a Wedding Photographer

Most of our engagement portrait sessions are with clients who have already booked Wallflower for their weddings. That wasn't the case with the session we recently completed for Kerah and Moi, who fell in love with the photos we took of Kerah's friend Helen and her fiance Chris last fall. While their wedding plans and budget are still up in the air, Kerah and Moi decided our portraits were a must-have!

This brings up an interesting idea: Booking an engagement portrait session with a photographer you're thinking about booking for your wedding to see how much you like the photos that photographer takes, and how much you like working with him or her (or them, in our case). It's certainly an interesting approach to selecting a wedding photographer, if you're having trouble deciding!

We had a great time meeting and working with Kerah and Moi as we took them on our favorite circuit through Point Defiance Park, starting with the Japanese Garden that was just starting to awaken from winter.

Then it was on to Owen Beach, where Kerah had the great concept of drawing a trail of hearts in the sand leading up to her and Moi.

And then we ended up at the rusty train cars and railroad tracks. Can you name any other park that has such a diverse and unique collection of cool portrait spots?! It's easy to see why both we and our clients have such a love for Pt. D.

Kerah and Moi didn't receive the big discount on engagement portraits that we offer our wedding clients. But, if they do end up booking us for their wedding — and we'd sure love it if they do — we'd be happy to take that same discount off their wedding package.

And we'll offer this same deal to anyone else who might want to follow their lead. Taking an up-close-and-personal sneak peek at a photographer's work can give you the confidence to invest in him/her/them to handle the most important photography of your lives.

UPDATE 7/13/09: Kerah and Moi just booked us for their wedding!