Amsterdam Proposal Photo Session
Andre & Beatriz
I’m Arielle Frioza, an Amsterdam-based photographer who LOVE to capture natural and spontaneous moments, like today’s proposal photo session in Amsterdam.
If you are interested in proposing to your partner in Amsterdam and want a photographer to register it, I wanna share some topics that worked so far with my previous clients like:
What approach are you looking for?
Aware about the session but not about the marriage proposal?
Or a surprise session where your partner has no idea that you two will do a photo session and proposal?
Aware about the session but not aware of the marriage proposal:
This, in my opinion, is the better option to avoid any unpleasantness.
You are in such a beautiful city with your love, so why not do a photo session to remember the trip with great photos of you two together? Instead of the classic selfies with your phone where you never have everything framed on the same photo, like you two plus beautiful background plus beautiful light or spot?
This is the speech that I always tell my clients to say to their partners when they wanna propose to them in marriage but also want to have everything planned.
The secret part where just me and the client who wants to propose knows is the secret code: I like to create, together with you a code that when one of us says, the other will know and be prepared.
Sometimes it’s hard to know the best spot so I always send you photos of the places for you to choose from, and when we arrive at the chosen location I say the code to let you know that this is THE spot and voylá!
I always try to keep this in the first 15 min of the session, where you will be starting to relax in front of the camera, so the remaining time you enjoy the session together with your future wife/husband-to-be.
Another interesting thing about this option is when you want to propose outside Amsterdam, I will guide you from Amsterdam to the perfect spot (if we need to take a specific bus or train, I will be with you two), so you can focus 100% your emotions on the proposal moment.
Total Surprise:
I will discuss with you all the details of location, time, and how to do it in advance and I will be waiting at the spot without your partner knowing. When you arrive at the spot you will propose and I suddenly will appear and start to shoot the moment. I will present myself and we will continue the session with you two enjoying yourselves, now as fiances.
As Andre did, he reached me by Instagram and we planned this moment months in advance, everything in secret from the photo session, the color of their clothes, to where exactly he will be standing.
I was already waiting for them on the spot, and when he was on his knees I appeared and started to shoot the moment.
Obviously, she said yes, and both of them enjoyed the whole process together and smiled from ear to ear the entire time.
The only cons that I like to share did not happen in Andre’s and Beatriz’s session, but is good to highlight: If the partner doesn’t know about the photo session, obviously she/he had no previous time to prepare/think about some details such as clothes, hair, nails or makeup and this could make them a bit uncomfortable after seeing those details on the final photos.
Finally the proposal photos of this beautiful couple in Amsterdam: Andre & Beatriz.