Ben & Emma's Pregnancy Announcement

Outdoor portraits were not realistic that day — not with snow that deep. Staying home turned out to be the right call. Bright walls, sheer curtains, and a quiet living room gave us room to work with natural light and the small details that make an announcement feel personal: a wooden letterboard, tiny spotted baby shoes, a cream stuffed bunny on a white console.

Ben and Emma are easy with each other on camera. That ease is what we look for in a pregnancy announcement session — not posed perfection, but the laughter and closeness that already belong to them. Sitting on the rug with the letterboard between them, holding newborn booties together, leaping into a hug with the board still in hand — those frames carry the feeling of the news as much as the words on the board.

Alma Films is best known for cinematic wedding films, but photography has long been part of how we stay with couples through the seasons after “I do.” Ben and Emma’s path — Milwaukee wedding film, then a Minneapolis-area pregnancy announcement — is the kind of continuity we love: one relationship, more than one chapter.

If you are planning a wedding film, engagement portraits, or still imagery for a milestone like this, the approach is the same. We keep the work editorial and honest — refined enough to share widely, true enough that it still feels like home when you look back years later.

A pregnancy announcement is often the first public photograph of a new family chapter. Years from now, Ben and Emma will not only remember that September was the due month — they will remember how it felt to sit on their own floor, snow banked outside, and finally put the secret into letters everyone could read.

We are so glad we got to celebrate this with them. They are going to make wonderful parents — and these frames will stay ready whenever they want to revisit the beginning of that story.