Greensboro Bridal & Engagement Session: Melissa & MarK

When I moved to Greensboro, I wasn’t fond of doing bridal sessions. Bridal sessions are more of
a southern thing and not something that was done in Louisville. At first they seemed to require too
much posing which felt too traditional, and I much preferred to do engagement sessions. Well, they
have actually grown on me, and now I highly recommend a couple to do an engagement session and
a bridal session. If you had to do just one, I would recommend the engagement session, but bridal
sessions do offer several advantages over doing the session on the day of the wedding.

First, it frees you up on the wedding day because your session is already finished. This saves you
about 15 to 30 minutes on the wedding day. Bridal sessions also allow the time of day to be chosen.
I shoot all my sessions around sunset because that is when the light is the best. Having beautiful light is
crucial to great photographs. Not only can the time of day be chosen, but the location can also be
chosen. Also, more care needs to be taken with the dress on the wedding day. If the dress gets
dirty during a bridal session, it can always be cleaned. This allows for more variety of poses and
opens up more locations. A bridal session can be longer than a session on the day of the wedding
which will provide better images. A bridal session allows a dress rehearsal to prepare for the wedding
day. You get to spend time with everything on and make sure you will be able to be in those shoes
all day! All of these things lead to better photographs! So if you had to choose just one I would
definitely say do an engagement session, but I highly recommend doing both.

This brings me to Melissa & Mark. They chose to do a bridal session and an engagement session.
They will be getting married next month at Greensboro College with a reception to follow at
Starmount Forest. I’m really looking forward to it!

Special thanks to Debbie Efird from Bloemendinder for the awesome bouquet and for letting us
use her beautiful garden!