Champagne Pop Photos & Video Worth Sharing

An inexpensive sparkling wine is a good choice for spraying. If you prefer a photograph without a visible label, turn it away from the camera or cover it with your hand. You are choosing this bottle for the fun, photos and video.

Bring two bottles to spray, or three if this photograph is high on your list. A second go gives you another chance if the first pop takes you by surprise, the spray hides a face or you want to try a different angle. One bottle can work, but it gives you only one attempt.

Keep a separate, well-chilled bottle for your first toast. For that, choose the Champagne you would most enjoy drinking together. Much of a spraying bottle ends up in the air; it is not the bottle to rely on for filling your glasses afterward.

Moulin Rouge is one of our favorite places for this photograph. The air rising through the pavement vents lifts the droplets, with the red windmill behind you. It is a lively public setting. A confident photographer can work with the crowd, inviting people to cheer you on and join in the fun.

Bir-Hakeim offers a different look: blue sky, the Eiffel Tower and room for the spray to stand out. The raised bench area beside the wall can add height to the photograph; there is no need to climb onto the wall. Your photographer chooses the position and angle.

A hotel terrace, château or other private setting gives your team more control over the background and who crosses the frame. Your planner confirms where spraying is permitted before the day.

Champagne is sticky. Plan the spray near the end of your session, after any photographs that need a clean, dry outfit.

Get all the directions before removing the foil or loosening the wire cage. Your photographer and videographer should place you, agree on the spray direction and decide where you will look. Put bags and coats clear of the spray, and point the bottle away from your partner, the cameras, glass and artwork.

Keep the bottle slightly beside your body, with the spray clear of your faces. Holding it straight in front can hide the shout, the laughter and the expressions you came for. Agree on your look beforehand: both toward the camera, toward each other or in the same direction.

The photographer should already be taking pictures and the videographer recording before you work the cork loose. Once you start, keep going without pausing for more direction. The pop, that split second of surprise and the first burst of laughter all belong in the photos and film.

You can shake the bottle before opening or start shaking after the cork pops; either approach can work. Have everyone ready before you begin, then keep the action going.

As soon as the cork is out, partly cover the opening with your thumb, roughly two-thirds of the way across. Leave a gap and use moderate pressure. Pressing harder does not make a better spray: it can produce a thin jet that shoots sideways.

Then bring some energy to it. Shake the bottle up and down, move it from side to side and make circular movements, keeping it beside your body and the spray clear of your partner. Keep your faces visible and your attention on each other or the camera, following the look you agreed beforehand. Keep going while the spray lasts. Laugh, shout and enjoy it together.

Put the spraying bottle down and open the chilled one for your toast. Your first glasses as an engaged couple deserve a bottle you are looking forward to drinking. Our Champagne Selection can help you choose it.

And if spraying is not your thing, skip it. A toast, a kiss and two glasses can say everything you want. The same playful photograph can also mark an anniversary or another celebration; you do not have to be newly engaged.

Tell us if a Champagne spray is on your list when you plan your couple photoshoot or proposal photography. We can plan the setting and camera positions before you arrive.

For an evening session, explore our night and blue-hour photography guide. Our couple posing guide has more ways to use your hands, move together and feel comfortable in front of the camera.