Engagement Pictures!

When we first got engaged it seemed like our wedding was sooooo far away!  Now here we are, FIVE months out!  We recently took engagement photos and it was really fun.  We wanted to take pictures downtown in Fredericksburg and our photographer, Fritzi Newton, had a vision for what she wanted our photos to look like and made suggestions on what we should wear.  Me:  a dress that had an "old fashioned" feel to it.  Jason:  dress shirt and bow tie. Jason didn't own a bow tie, so we had to go shopping.  I am not a fan of bow ties, so was not super excited about that.  I have changed my mind about bow ties.  At least on Jason.  He looks so handsome!

The Rappahannock River is a great background, and Fritzi
caught a shot with a train going across the bridge.

Fritzi played with this one, and made the background look like
a painting.

After the river we headed to the train station.

We took a bunch of pictures at the train station,
and the pictures came out kind of telling a story,
like we were going on a trip.

Under the station platform, with some PhotoShop magic
from the photographer.

Fredericksburg has lots of old buildings, which make great backgrounds.

Yep, we had some fun!

We shot this inside an abandoned building that had no roof. As
our photographer was taking pictures, birds kept swooping
in and out and we were constantly distracted by them.
On this one, Jason looked away just as she snapped the
picture and I love it, it ended up looking playful and fun.