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Thursday, December 6, 2012
Christmas Pictures
Quick Question for you all . . .
If you have older children who no longer live at home, how do you approach Christmas Pictures? (if you have always sent out an annual Family Picture . . . for. like. 28 years.)
Do any of you have situations where you have not all been together in the past year, so you don't have a group shot?
When your kids get married, do you still include them in your Family Picture? Have you ever used a collage format? What were your Big Kids' responses to this?
Would love to hear your thoughts and ideas.
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Not to that point yet at my house but I have friends that have taken pic and downloaded to someplace like snapfish and had the older kids add theirs to the album and then picked pic from that album and made a card!
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God Bless,
Rose Anne
Hi - first time commenter.
ReplyDeleteI would do a family picture with the kids still at home and then a collage around the outside with a picture of each of the married couples/families. If that is too confusing I think a family picture with the kids still at home would be totally fine. The married kids might send out their own Christmas cards anyway and eventually as they have more kids it might get unwieldy to have everyone on your card. If you are worried about the big kids feeling left out you could just ask them if they want to be on the card or include an update about them in the card without a picture. good luck!
too funny, i was just starting to think the same thing! So I have been fortunate to have all my kids together for Thanksgiving each year, thus that is when we pile on a couch for a family shot. It's never a fantastic shot, but hey, we're all in it, lol. This year we even had Amber (joe's fiance) in our group shot. Then I wonder if our adopted-big kids should be in it cuz...well... he's part of our family currently (?)
ReplyDeleteSo here is my take on big family pictures and them growing up. If you happen to be together...fabulous. If not, there is 2 options. One, have collage style photo instead, each person, or groups of persons submit their own photos. or Two, let the older, already moved out, have begun their own lives/married children do their own family shot/cards, and simply take photos of who is left in the nest. What are you planning on?
~Sheri
I'm not there yet, but I've received/seen photo cards with just the kids at home or the large group photo of everyone. I think a collage would work as well. I don't really think there is a right or wrong answer....one option would be to ask the kids' opinions...but I probably wouldn't because if they didn't agree, I'd hate to have to decide which kid to favor. :-)
ReplyDeleteMy in-laws always do a collage (I usually make it, actually) and ask each of us to submit a photo we'd be comfortable including in the collage. Each photo has a little caption under it saying who it is and maybe a blurb like "Dick and Sally, at home in Colorado" or something. They usually run them off of their home color printer on very lightweight photo paper but I have done these myself, saved them as a photo file and send it to shutterfly or Target and they print just fine and it's pretty inexpensive.
ReplyDeletewe do the "collage" thing - we just ask everyone to wear a certain color - and that way it looks like it may have been at the same time :)
ReplyDeletewe haven't sent out family pics since the first of our kids got married.
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