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Engaged couple silhouetted against the sun at golden hour in the South Bay

Engagement sessions

The easiest hour and a half you’ll spend together.

Golden-hour engagement sessions on the Palos Verdes cliffs, San Pedro parks and South Bay beaches.

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Just engaged?

This is the practice run for your wedding day.

An engagement session is the best possible way to find out what you both look like in front of a camera before the day that really counts. By the time your wedding comes around, being photographed already feels normal.

We shoot the hour before sunset, when the light along the Palos Verdes coastline does most of the work for me. You don’t need to know how to pose. I direct you the whole way through, and the photographs people love most are almost always the in-between moments rather than the planned ones.

You get 70 fully edited images back within two weeks, with full printing rights, so you can use them for save-the-dates, your wedding website, or simply because you like them.

Liliya

Engaged couple photographed at golden hour on the South Bay coast

Recent engagement sessions

Engagement sessions around Palos Verdes and San Pedro.

Couple silhouetted against the low sun on open grass
Couple lying together in a field of poppies
Couple about to kiss, black and white
Couple embracing beside a white fence
Couple beneath a windswept tree
Couple standing on a rock against an open sky
Couple kissing by the ocean, black and white
Couple lying together on the beach at sunset
Couple on the rocks above the sea at sunset
Couple kissing on the coastal steps
Engagement session at Rancho Palos Verdes
Engagement session at Rancho Palos Verdes

Pricing

One session, one price.

No packages to decode. This is what an engagement session costs.

Everything included

Engagement Session

$549

1½ hours · 70 edited images

  • 1½ hours of shooting
  • 70 professionally edited images
  • Delivered digitally within two weeks
  • Private online photo album
  • Full printing rights
  • One location of your choosing
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A $50 deposit holds your date. The balance is due on the day.

Full sessions

See a whole engagement session, start to finish.

In their words

★★★★★

“We are beyond pleased! Absolutely gorgeous! Thank you, thank you, thank you Liliya!!!”

Cheryl B.
★★★★★

“Love, love, love Liliya. Her work is amazing and she’s so professional and fun!”

Christe G.
★★★★★

“I am in complete amazement. She did such an incredible job! I would have to say she is the best photographer we have worked with to date!”

Deborah U.
Engaged couple walking the coastal path above the Pacific

Book the light, not just the date.

Sunset slots go first, especially in spring and fall. Tell me roughly when and I’ll tell you what’s free.

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Let’s find your golden hour

Tell me roughly when you’d like to shoot and where you have in mind, and I’ll come back the same day with availability.

I reply the same day, usually within a couple of hours. Your details go straight to my inbox and nowhere else.