Now, under any normal circumstances, five days of engagement photos would be hard to plan for. To take it a step further, we decided to make them 50's themed because when we think of dressing nice, that's typically how we dress. However, I don't exactly have a whole closet full of 50's clothing, so we've spent the last seven months planning and collecting to ultimately execute this over-the-top endeavor. We hit up eBay, second hand stores and even Amazon to get all the pieces we needed. But this was the real challenge for me - coordinating all the outfits and deciding which days we should wear what.
The last month has been the most challenging for me. We met with his sister and with park maps in hand, we sat in Starbucks for two hours and created our "schedule of events". Now, I'm personally not one to schedule out my day, especially when it comes to Disneyland, but when you have so many things to hit on any given day, it takes a lot of coordinating to get it done.
So once we had the schedule decided, it was time for me to piece together all of our outfits. Initially I thought this would be simple, but I was at a complete loss. Not being able to have all of our clothes together at once to try them out, I resorted to my backbone- photography. We took photos of every possible article of clothing and I digitally rendered all of our outfits. There was revision after revision and even some slight bickering on if that vest would work with that outfit, but in the end, we both have agreed our outfits are perfect.
I've used these cheat sheets to insure we've packed everything, but it will also help us get dressed in the morning without frantically thinking "What tie was he supposed to wear?" And "I can't remember if today is the pin up/greaser look!"
But to take it all a step further, while we're annual passholders, his sister has only been to Disneyland once and its been about seven years since then. So to make everything easier on all of us, I used Pinterest, the best research tool on the internet, to compile a bunch of photos as reference to what we like and I grouped them by land.
I've ended up creating an almost "manual" of sorts for our engagement photos as a quick reference guide to get us through the week. Is it neurotic? Yes. Is it likely unnecessary? Probably. Do I regret it at all? No. This is what I've found helps me the most, and when it's the first and only thing I've genuinely stressed about at all when it comes to our engagement, I've found it oddly therapeutic.
Now to finish packing...
Stay tuned for photos!
P.S: Meet Andy, the tiny teddy. He'll be joining us on our adventures! It is a vacation for all of us, after all... #ayearwithandy (And don't forget to follow Brittany on Instagram!)
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