Crave A Good E-Pic Session: The Finale!

So FINALLY the day arrived and it couldn't have been more beautiful outside. A high of 39 degrees with minimal wind which made me extremely happy. I decided on wearing jeans with a cute black buttoned down blouse. I figured that worrying over what I would wear is crazy because I will be wearing my coat pretty much the entire day!

We picked our photographer, Michael, up from Newark airport and headed into the city around 11:45am. We parked the car in mid-town (for those of you not fluent with NYC grid that is around Times Square and Rockefeller Center) so that we could walk to the subway quicker and we were close to Central Park. Our philosophy for the day was to start at Central Park, then grab lunch and some random shots, and then to the Brooklyn Bridge for sunset. And we actually stayed on track although we spent a lot more time in Central Park than we imagined and I didn't even get to go to Belvedere Castle. The ONE place I wanted to go to but we just didn't have enough time if we wanted to catch the sunset. So I decided that the sunset was more important and that I was already happy with the pictures we already captured. Take a look below.

This picture is great because of the beautiful mosiac ceiling in Bethesda Terrace and I was happy that Michael was able to capture all of it.

We also took a lot of pictures at the Mall in Central Park which is a forty foot wide flanked by it's majestic American Elms trees.

This is one of my favorite because of the angel and also how candid it is. The way he captures the moment is beautiful.

On any other day I would have NEVER sat on this bench in the subway since they tend to claimed by bums and not exactly clean. Although it made for a great shot so it was worth it.

Ahh the Brooklyn Bridge with city skyline...it doesn't get any better than this! It took us a while to get this shot since we had to make sure no one would walk infront of the camera which was kind of hard considering people were walking the bridge constantly.

Little do you know my FI is holding the flash behind us so you get that light effect around our faces. I love this photo because of the pure emotion we are showing, you can't stage that!

At this point we had been shooting for over 6 hours and honestly it didn't feel like that. My feet were starting to hurt though and I was finally getting cold because we weren't moving so much. This picture above we had to stand still for a minute in order for the shutter to open to grab as much as light as possible. Even though this is a very posed picture it's one of my favorites because of the incrediable skyline. Don't ya think?!

This picture makes me laugh because our photographer had intentions of the subway to come in faster then it did. Normally the trains come flying into the station and then stop. This train unfortunately crawled in and we couldn't get as good of a pic of the train zooming by but I still like how fun it was!

Overall we had an absolute blast and John's attitude towards engagement photos changed (surprise surprise!) and he was extremely happy we had the opportunity to work with our photographer before our wedding. He was even more pleased when he saw the photos the days that followed and agreed that it was worth flying him in from Toronto for the weekend. I never would have thought our session would last 9 hours! Whhhhaaaattt? Yes. 9 hours! We ended the night in Times Square with a few photos and then warmed up in Starbucks before heading home.

Were you happy with your engagement photos? Did you think it was worth it? Was your FI against the idea as well?

*All pictures were taken from here