An engagement session serves two purposes that are both more practical and more meaningful than most couples realize before they do one. The first is obvious - you walk away with beautiful photographs that announce your engagement, go on your save-the-dates, and live on your walls. The second is less obvious but arguably more important: you figure out how to be photographed together before the most important day of your lives depends on it. Wedding days move fast. There is almost no time to settle in, relax, and find your natural way of being in front of a camera. Couples who have done an engagement session beforehand arrive at their wedding already knowing how to interact with me, how to ignore the camera, and how to be genuinely themselves rather than performing for a lens. The difference in the wedding photographs is visible and significant. Tucson is one of the most beautiful cities in the American Southwest for engagement photography. The Sonoran Desert offers extraordinary