"To anyone following their two-year romance, Taylor Swift's engagement to the American football star Travis Kelce was no great surprise. Nor was the choreographed nature of the engagement shoot. The series of five photographs, posted on Instagram and now liked 35m times, feature the couple in various acts of staged proposal within a landscaped garden festooned with roses and urns. The happy couple or as they refer to themselves in the post, your English teacher and your gym teacher both wore Ralph Lauren."
"Kelce, a navy cable-knit polo shirt and tailored shorts, and Swift a smocked white sundress which sold out moments after the post appeared. The images appear to be a peek into a private moment, yet every bloom, Cartier bracelet and rock had been stage-managed. Swift may be the world's biggest pop star, but she's even better at art-directing her own fairytale."
""This is very much a proposal shoot rather than an engagement shoot," says Beatrici, who prefers a more naturalistic pose-free style. "Sometimes I'll be hiding in a bush waiting for the proposal," she says, after which I'll let things settle for half an hour, then go back for the engagement photos. "It's not out of the question that the [Swift/Kelce] proposal was a surprise, but these are celebrities so I suspect not. It's a [giveaway] when people have their nails done.""
Taylor Swift's engagement to Travis Kelce followed a two-year romance and featured a choreographed Instagram engagement shoot of five photographs that received 35 million likes. The images presented staged proposal moments in a landscaped garden with roses and urns. Both wore Ralph Lauren and Swift's sundress sold out shortly after posting. Photographers note many engagement shoots are art-directed rather than spontaneous. Photographer Alline Beatrici photographs proposals, prefers naturalistic, pose-free images, sometimes hiding nearby and returning after a pause. Engagement shoots began as add-ons for wedding photographers and often occur before couples set wedding dates.
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