Help dress my family for photos please!

[whitepicketfence]

We're planning on doing family pictures at the beach with a few newborn pics thrown in next month after DD3 is born. I have no idea what to dress everyone in. I'd like to do a navy blue, aqua, and white color scheme and am thinking about wearing the dress below (it's navy and has some ruffles around the neckline since that part didn't photograph well). I figure we'll all be barefoot. DH looks best in long sleeve button-up shirts and he does have a white one with blue pinstripes on it. Maybe he could wear that with jeans? That still leaves me with 3 kids to dress, lol. I've dug through their closets but can't find anything I like that would work. Help!

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[jssymom14]

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[6fsn]

It might be my weirdness, but if you are wearing a sleeveless dress it might be odd to have your husband in long sleeves and jeans. I'd probably have him wear the button down with khaki or navy shorts. You could probably put your son in a white polo style shirt and blue/khaki shorts. Maybe for your daughter a pale yellow or blue. Nothing too bright or she'll stand out more.

[pupcake]

For our newborn pictures the three of us wore a white shirt and jeans and the baby was naked. The pictures were taken outside in a grassy area and they turned our very cute. You want all the attention on you guys and the baby not what you are wearing so the simpler the better.

[whitepicketfence]

May 14, 2014 11:18:41 GMT -5 6fsn said:

It might be my weirdness, but if you are wearing a sleeveless dress it might be odd to have your husband in long sleeves and jeans. I'd probably have him wear the button down with khaki or navy shorts. You could probably put your son in a white polo style shirt and blue/khaki shorts. Maybe for your daughter a pale yellow or blue. Nothing too bright or she'll stand out more.

This is a good thought. I think I'm leaning toward him wearing a white button down w/ the sleeves rolled and khaki shorts.

I think I'm really struggling w/ how to dress the girls since I'd like pics of all 3 of them together and am worried about their clothing clashing.

[whitepicketfence]

May 14, 2014 11:24:17 GMT -5 pupcake said:

For our newborn pictures the three of us wore a white shirt and jeans and the baby was naked. The pictures were taken outside in a grassy area and they turned our very cute. You want all the attention on you guys and the baby not what you are wearing so the simpler the better.

We actually did the same thing for our last family shoot; all of us wore whtie + jeans and they were taken outside. I wanted to try something with a little more color this time so all of our family pics don't look the same. It was a lot easier when we were all neutral, lol.

[6fsn]

May 14, 2014 11:48:20 GMT -5 whitepicketfence said:

May 14, 2014 11:18:41 GMT -5 6fsn said:

It might be my weirdness, but if you are wearing a sleeveless dress it might be odd to have your husband in long sleeves and jeans. I'd probably have him wear the button down with khaki or navy shorts. You could probably put your son in a white polo style shirt and blue/khaki shorts. Maybe for your daughter a pale yellow or blue. Nothing too bright or she'll stand out more.

This is a good thought. I think I'm leaning toward him wearing a white button down w/ the sleeves rolled and khaki shorts.

I think I'm really struggling w/ how to dress the girls since I'd like pics of all 3 of them together and am worried about their clothing clashing.

Somehow I thought you had a boy and a girl.  Reading fail.

[biogirl21]

What size are they all in? I can't see ages mobile. Target has some really cute blue, white and yellow stuff right now that I believe goes to 24 months. Most of it does have sailboats in it though.

[whitepicketfence]

I also have this dress that I could wear since it might be easier to match things to w/out the print of the other dress:

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I like the idea of one of the older girls in a dress and maybe one in a skirt. This skirt might work, maybe with just a plain white tank of some sort:

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I don't know if that's too matchy though.

[whitepicketfence]

May 14, 2014 11:54:46 GMT -5 biogirl21 said:

What size are they all in? I can't see ages mobile. Target has some really cute blue, white and yellow stuff right now that I believe goes to 24 months. Most of it does have sailboats in it though.

DD1 is in size 4T or XS in girls.

DD2 is in 3T.

Newborn for the little one

[whitepicketfence]

I really like something like this for DD1 though which is why I was leaning toward navy:

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[nancybotwin]

We just did a photo shoot on Sunday. I wore a coral short sleeve shirt with white pants, DH wore a long sleeve shirt with navy stripes (he rolled the sleeves) with dark jeans, DD wore a coral and white skirt with a teal tank and DS wore a white and teal striped onesie with dark jeans. All of this was in the closet except DDs tank ($5.94 at children's place!) and the previews of the pictures look good so far!

[biogirl21]

May 14, 2014 12:05:46 GMT -5 whitepicketfence said:

May 14, 2014 11:54:46 GMT -5 biogirl21 said:

What size are they all in? I can't see ages mobile. Target has some really cute blue, white and yellow stuff right now that I believe goes to 24 months. Most of it does have sailboats in it though.

DD1 is in size 4T or XS in girls.

DD2 is in 3T.

Newborn for the little one

Ah, they are older than I thought.