Book a Engagement Photoshoot
in Aix-en-Provence

For Paris in spring and early summer, and for Provence during lavender season (late June to mid-July), book 4-8 weeks ahead — these are peak dates and the best photographers' calendars fill early. The Loire, Alsace and the Riviera outside August are more flexible; two to three weeks is usually enough. If your dates are fixed (say, you're combining the shoot with a wedding scouting trip), book as soon as you know them — you can always fine-tune the time and locations later in the chat with your photographer. Last-minute requests are still worth trying: Photo France can often match you with an available photographer within days.

Yes — that's one of the most popular reasons couples book an engagement session. You receive high-resolution files with personal usage rights, perfect for printed cards, wedding websites, guest apps and social media announcements. Tell your photographer in advance that save-the-dates are the goal: they'll deliberately shoot some wider compositions with negative space for text, a mix of portrait and landscape orientations, and a few images that work at small print sizes. The two of you small against the Eiffel Tower at dawn, or framed by a lavender row in Gordes, makes an announcement nobody forgets. Delivery is typically within days, so the cards can go out quickly.

Practically, they're the same product — same duration, same pricing from €299, same photographer pool. The difference is intent. An engagement session usually has deliverables in mind: save-the-dates, a wedding website, images that match the aesthetic of your upcoming wedding. Your photographer will plan for that — cleaner compositions, ring details, perhaps echoing the color palette of your wedding venue. A couples session is freer: it documents your trip and your relationship as they are, with more candid wandering. Tell us which one you mean when booking and the session gets planned accordingly; plenty of couples honestly book it as both.

Professional photoshoots in Aix-en-Provence start from €310. Packages vary by duration and the number of edited photos — from a short session among the fountains of the old town to a longer shoot that adds the lavender fields of the Provençal countryside in season.

The Cours Mirabeau under its double row of plane trees, the moss-covered fountains scattered through the old town, the elegant hôtels particuliers of the Mazarin quarter, the square in front of Saint-Sauveur cathedral, and the daily markets with their Provençal colours. In late June and July, the lavender fields of the Valensole plateau are within day-trip reach.

Morning — the market squares fill with colour, the plane-tree shade on the Cours Mirabeau dapples beautifully, and the golden stone glows before the midday glare. For lavender add-ons the rule reverses: the fields are at their best at sunset, when the heat drops and the light turns violet-gold.