xshub’s niece, who is recently engaged, had a professional photog do their engagement photos. xsteen assures me this is done these days, but it was not done in my day and i think it’s a waste of money. but anyway, they had their’s done during cherry blossom season down at the jefferson memorial, so if you are going to spend $ doing that, i suppose that is a nice location and how they managed to do it without RANDOM TOURISTS in any of the shots, i have no idea! bc that is a major achievement. They had their little dog there with them and i guess a friend to hold his leash, and he would distract the tourists while the photog did a shot etc. They had plenty done with Maxwell in the pic too, and some done of him alone, which were very cute, but clearly it was as an adjunct to their engagement pix. whyisa, i know your daughter had some done, and xsteen said it was very big at UD among the engaged, and one of classmates from St James had it done, but she lives in NYC and had some very artsy ones done with street scenes etc.
Kids do a “save the date” announcement - at least in our friend circles. A fridge magnet seems to be what most of my daughter’s friends have done.