The Margarita's Engagement Pics

Mr. Marg and I both had pretty crazy schedules leading up to the wedding and had a really hard time finding a weekend to come out to California together to take engagement pictures. Since the engagement photo shoot and print for our wedding was included in our photography package, I really wanted to squeeze them in somehow. So between our schedules and our photographer's schedule, the only time we got to take engagement pictures was the day of our mendhi party. Since the mendhi party was at my house and only 2 days before the wedding, it was a crazy time for me. Not to mention Mr. Marg had just arrived in Cali a few hours prior to the shoot. The real insanity was that it gave Dina, my fabulous and understanding photographer, only 24 hours turnaround time to create a print for the wedding.

Dina agreed to meet us in downtown Long Beach to do the engagement session. She wasn't familiar with the area and the lighting wasn't ideal but she really made it work. We met at the Long Beach Aquarium and ran all over taking pictures. We posed around the many brightly painted buildings, got some ice cream as props and took pictures in all sorts of shrubbery and bushes. Honestly, when we were crouching in those bushes and around planted flowers I was really starting to wonder what the pictures would look like. Little did I know that Dina would make it seem that we were in a field of flowers or in some kind of field.

In a field of flowers aka crouching in flowers surrounding a water fountain

Mmm..ice cream!
Posing in the bushes. Doesn't it look like we are in a field?
Our best sexy/GQ pose. I'm a really smiley person so this was interesting for me
Dina instructed us to laugh and walk. It was so weird to just randomly laugh that I genuinely began cracking up. Mr. Marg is looking at me like "okaaay crazy lady".


Dina made a collage of these images and turned them into a poster for display at our wedding. I loved the collage and we got tons of compliments about the poster from guests throughout the night.

Did anyone else take engagement photos in unexpected places?

*All pictures courtesy of Andrena Photography