Photo Card Senders

[Mrs.Beagle]

Do you get professional photos taken? Make a collage of pictures taken throughout the year?

H wants to take an Awkward Family Photo and send it out. I'd like to send out a nice picture of us. I would send out a wedding photo, but we're coming up on 1 year, so that time has passed.

What do you do? We have no idea, but do have cats.

[chessie]

We have a friend that is a photographer takes some pictures of us, otherwise we have no pictures of us together. This year we took them with our two dogs and our horses.

[ejpint]

Our first year, our wedding was 8 months before Christmas, so it felt silly to send a wedding picture. I used an engagement photo of the two of us, and then surrounded it with some pictures of us and the dogs that a friend (a photography student) had snapped.

Last year, we took our own picture of the dogs in front of the Christmas tree.

This year we'll probably do some candids from our big vacation and do kind of a collage of pictures.

[papie]

We just started doing them last year, and I just dress up the kids and take a nice picture of them.

If it was just us, I probably wouldn't do the pics.

[HoneySpider]

We usually just use one from some event during the year - last year it was from my brother's wedding (so we were both dressed nicely, we were in the wedding), the year before it was our house because we had bought it that year, the year before that was our wedding.

This year we are planning to announce the pregnancy if everything goes well at the next visit. I don't know what the photo's going to be yet though.

[noodleoo]

We don't do professional photos, although I did use a wedding pic that year. We usually try to get a nice picture of us on vacation. That's pretty much the only time we get pics of us together. This year I might do one nice pic of us and then 2 goofy pics of us individually since we have some silly ones.

[BAMFMrsB]

It just depends. Some years we set up the camera and pose in front of it - that's the plan for this year. Gonna set out some Xmas-y stuff in front of the fireplace, light a fire, and pose as a family with BabyBAMF. Awwwwwwww ;D

Last year we had a pro shoot - a photog friend was hooked up with a 3rd party friends of ours, so she gave us Christmas card pics for our 'finders fee'. They were awesome.

One year I used a pic of us in the spring when we were at a beach wedding, and added in some Christmas details. It was cheesy and cute.

One year we were on a Dec cruise, so I brought my tiny Xmas tree from work and we posed on the deck of the ship with the tree.

[bunchkie]

We try to do something funny every year. It is a lot of pressure! :-|

[luvmagoldn]

I've given up trying to get a posed photo of all five of us. So last year we went out to a historic site and took pictures (H and I took turns behind the camera) of us in groups and individually then put together a collage.

The pic in my siggy is one of the pics from last year's card.

[cjeanette]

We often do professional. A couple of years we have done a collage of the year.

[mbcdefg]

We got married in April 2010. Our Christmas card that year was one pro wedding pic plus two of our vacation pics. We ordered envelope sealer stickers of our cat sleeping with a Santa hat photoshopped on his head.

Last summer we bought a house. Our card was a pic of the house, a pic of us holding the SOLD sign, and a photo of our cat sitting in front of the decorated fireplace.

We have a goofy photo from last year's ugly sweater party that we could use for this year's card, but IDK if I even want to do a photo card. But we got a second cat so I feel like I should include her this year

[biscoffcookies]

We never did photo cards before DD arrived last December. We had a professional photog do a newborn session of her and asked her to take a few pictures of us with DD. We put 1 picture of just DD and 1 picture of the 3 of us on the card last year.

We aren't going to be able to do DD's 1-year session in time for holiday cards. I'm planning to ask my in-laws to take a picture of the 3 of us with their camera when we are at their house for Thanksgiving. They have a gorgeous backyard and the weather should be mild, so hopefully we'll have a nice background.

Mrs.Beagle -- I kind of love the idea of a tongue-in-cheek Awkward Family Photo holiday card, though.

[Deleted]

We always take a photo of us on our front stoop wearing santa hats. We put the dogs in striped pajamas with their santa hats. LOL. I think the pics always come out cute. This year we might do more of a photo collage.

[ondaflipside]

We pick 2 to 3 pictures taken in the past year. One with\of the dog, one with us on vacation, and another random where we both look decently cute; or taken for a major event (wedding, etc.)

Most of the pic is taken from our phones. We don't put too much effort into it. I think to do otherwise will be unusual for us/me. I'm not the crafty/perfectionist/stylish type.

[aspentosh]

This is our first year doing photo cards. I just took some posed pictures of DD (Christmas-y) and made a card from that.