I am so excited to share this botanical garden engagement session! I cannot believe it is mid-August already. I’m stuck between decorating my house for fall & enjoying the warm sunshine outside in a pool. It’s definitely still too hot for soup season, but during the busy summers I usually make a batch of my spicy chicken salad. My husband loves it! We actually found the recipe through a wedding caterer. Between home renovation projects and botanical garden engagement sessions, we keep pretty busy in the summer!
Engagement in Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Emma and Sam had a beautiful session at Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor to incorporate all the summer blooms and the greenhouse jungle. The blooms were so beautiful and colorful. It perfectly complimented this couple.
Something unique that Emma & Sam did was to include their son in some of their engagement photos. I really loved that they chose to incorporate their little family. If you want to incorporate your kiddos, we should! I highly encourage we do a mixed family and couples shoot if that’s something important to you. Your kids will love to be involved and will look back and remember how you included them in such a big day.
We started our session with the gardens to the left of the big greenhouse building. Immediately there was this gorgeous ivy-like wall that we had to use. Matthaei Botanical Gardens had a couple fountains throughout the property as well we were able to use. One of my favorite photos from this session actually happened without prompting! In the jungle greenhouse area, their son had stopped to play with these little plastic frogs he brought with him. He was playing with them in this really large water basin and Emma and Sam squatted down to interact with him really quick. His whole face looks so happy to be playing frogs with his parents. I melted.
