Spring Mont-St-Michel Engagement Shoot
Photos captured by English speaking photographer Sabina Cowdery
This Mont-St-Michel engagement photo-shoot wasn’t as orginally planned. Antoine had originally booked it to be a surprise proposal photo-shoot but then Covid happened. Their trip over from California sadly had to be postponed. Not wanting to wait, he proposed and in time let Lauren know what he had originally organised.
So when they were able to reschedule their trip after any risk and restrictions had been lifted Antoine got back in touch. As they were staying overnight a the Mont I blocked both days. The reason I do that is because the Normandy weather can be unpredictable and I always thinks it’s important to keep our options open. And it was the right thing to do as in the days before their arrival the weather became wet and windy with even storms forecast.
At the last minute we chose not to go ahead on the first day and the second day wasn’t looking good either apart from the early morning so that’s what we planned. For the first time a photoshoot about an hour after sunrise, to make sure we made the most of this incredible location before the weather turned for the worse. And it’s a good job we did because after the morning sunshine and our lovely photo-shoot, there was intense hail and a storm.
I’m so happy that we were all able to be flexible and adapt to the changing conditions to give them their images, including recreating their proposal moment, that they can treasure.
If you’re looking to plan and engagement or proposal photoshoot have a look at my Mont St Michel section of my website
Oh, and have a look at the very last photo… A French army patrol came by just as we were doing photos on a long set of steps. Look how they kindly marched up in single file, right against the wall so as to not get in the way. Merci Messieurs
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Early-morning Spring Mont-St-Michel Engagement Shoot
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