Your wedding should feel like you. Fun details from cocktail napkins, signage or your place cards are ways you might bring in your interests and personality but what about at your sessions? Before your wedding couples often opt for Engagement and Bridal Portraits and it’s a great time to personalize.

For this bride, and many of our couples, she wanted to include her pet! We have photographed dogs and cats before but this one was a first – an albino ball python named Lucy. Rachel is an exotic pet vet and she wanted to include one of her many reptiles in her session. Her florist, Justines Flowers, even made Lucy a little floral wreath to wear for the occasion.

I am not expecting to start photographing snakes at every session but what I loved about Rachel’s choices is that she knows who she is, what she loves and incorporated it. For your session that might mean bringing your dogs and us planning a puppy friendly location. But it could also mean capturing you at your favorite weekend hangout, a hobby you have or a place that is sentimental like your family home. The key is having a conversation with us about your session so we can customize it for you.