I love seeing engagement photos and how different couples capture their relationship. I have three totally different engagement sessions to share today to hopefully inspire you guys with ideas. We’ll start off with this pretty road trip engagement shoot from Gabe Aceves. I love road trips and adore this engagement session of Maria + James. They teamed up with Anne + Lauren from A Trendy Wedding to help style a road trip shoot on some country roads in Virginia.
James and I met and fell in love as freshmen in college. The second day we were dating, at ages 17 and 18, we knew we could see ourselves getting married. It seemed crazy at the time, but we were crazy in love. As years passed, time only confirmed those initial feelings. James waited until I was 21 to propose, since it seemed a more fitting age for such things to occur, and made sure to ask my dad for permission first, even though we aren’t typically so traditional. I am the oldest of two children and the only girl, so it’s tough for my family to let me go. Now, we’ve been engaged for almost two and a half years and our wedding is a mere month away! We came across Gabe on a wedding blog, and found his airy aesthetic perfect. We were thrilled that he could take engagement photos with us before the wedding.
Our families are spread out, so the road trip-inspired photoshoot was perfect for us. James is from Texas, I’m from Maryland, and we have family in Indiana, New Mexico, and California. We lived in Annapolis and Santa Fe during college, we now live in a Memphis suburb in Mississippi, and we have always loved traveling. James got me the beautiful blue dress for my 23rd birthday, and I was thrilled to wear it for the shoot. Surprising me with the dress wasn’t easy — James visited my style blog, noticed that I swooned over that dress, then sneakily bought it for me. The shoot was freezing but so much fun! Everyone was really relaxed and comfortable, and James and I snuggled together to stay warm. The images perfectly reflect our journey together and our love.
Thanks so much for sharing your photos Maria + James! And big thanks to the gorgeous photography of Gabe Aceves. Gabe is based in Washington DC and available to travel.
I love road trips so I LOVED this! X
the blue dress is extremely pretty! :)
I hope one day I could also go on a road trip! :)
so cool!
so where is the blue ruffle dress from? Its gorgeous!
Thank you so much for sharing these Jen! Maria and James are one of the most amazing couples I’ve had the pleasure to work with and I can’t wait for their wedding next month.
Liz I think the dress is from Anthropologie but I’ll check with Maria and I’m sure she will chime in here.
Love their outfits with the contrasting colors of the car.
These are so beautiful! Great theme and executed flawlessly!
How charming! I love the map details!
Love, love, love!!
This is such an incredibly cute engagement session!!!
These are awesome! Love!
Seriously, what could be better than a roadtrip e-session!? Love it.
How cute! Such a great idea and what a car.
I absolutely LOVE what you do here at Green Wedding Shoes. I follow you daily and love all the inspirations and creativity all over the place. What an adorable idea for an engagement session. I only wish more midwest couples would be up for awesome ideas like this. How do we get more people to branch out with these awesome sessions??
Thank you so much for featuring our photos! (And thanks to Gabe for making us look so awesome.) We had so much fun that day!
Liz, the dress is indeed from Anthropologie. It’s by Tracy Reese and it was called the “Dreamy Wanderings Dress”.
Great pictures!! Good job Anne & Lauren on styling. Thanks Green Wedding Shoes for blogging :)
LOVE this session! :) thanks for sharing!
I love the maps! For the paper airplanes, where did you find the map paper?
Thanks Shauna! We used maps from an old road atlas, just tore out some pages. It cost $1 at a thrift store!
LOVE the styling of this shoot. What an adorable couple.
Such a cool shoot, really love the photos inside the car. The couple are adorable
The dress is fantastic and this photo shoot is beyond adorable :)