Summer Evening Engagement Photos, Princeton University

A. and T. are getting married in Cape Cod but wanted to have their engagement photos taken in the place where they met. These photographs are a lovely example of a couple having their engagement photographs taken in places that are full of meaning for the two of them.

A. and T. (they didn’t want us to use their full names) both went to Princeton University, and met in a Shakespeare class. For the engagement photos at Princeton University, they visited all sorts of touchstones on campus. They went to East Pyne, where they used to love to study together. They went to the McCosh courtyard, the place where they first met. They went to Pyne Hall, the dorm where A. lived her senior year, when she and T. started dating. And they went to 1879 Arch, the Philosophy building, because Ava was a philosophy major. They spent some time in Prospect Gardens, just because it is so beautiful, and then they took a stroll down the walkway in front of the Woodrow Wilson School of Foreign Policy, now adorned with giant bronze statues by Ai Weiwei.

(If you haven’t seen the “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads” statues yet, it’s worth a special trip to Princeton just to see them. They’ll be on view for almost another year, so make sure you see them before they are taken down on August 1, 2017!)

Both A. and T. told us beforehand that they are very camera shy and were worried about feeling uncomfortable having their pictures taken. But I think the photos show that once they started strolling around, revisiting old memories, they stopped feeling self-conscious and just enjoyed themselves.