Engagement Photo Options

Engagement Photo Options

September 28th, 2006 @ 1:30 pm by Mrs. Apple

My FI and I love playing with our cousins, nieces, and nephews. I have a large family consisting of more than 10+ cousins ranging between 2 to 11 years of age. If we go without seeing them for more than 2 weeks, we get sad and yearn to be a superhero (either Superman or Star Power) with them again.

Since we love kids, I pitched the idea of incorporating them into our engagement pictures to my FI. How cute would that be to have pictures of us with them in the park? I was thinking of doing it at a local park that has a historic trolley and gazebo. I know, I know that the pictures should be representative of us, but when I think of a wedding I think the love extends to the rest of the family as well - two families uniting.

Well to my dismay he thought it was a cute idea but realistically wasn’t do-able. How can we manage 10 kids from toddler to pre teen in one photographic shot? Not to mention how would our photographer feel about agreeing to this idea? Has this ever been done in an engagement photo session before? After asking my FI 10 times, I finally agreed to not do it. I was bummed man.

Picture something like this…

I couldn’t find any engagement photos with kids in it that weren’t the couple’s kids. What do you guys think of this idea?

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13 Responses to “Engagement Photo Options”

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Michelle

I saw in martha stewart weddings a cool idea for you. Basically they made a picture like a school photo with the frame that says their names and date

9/28/06 @ 1:47 pm (reply)

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Mrs. Bee

omg i lovedlovedloved that layout. i thought it was the cutest thing ever!

9/28/06 @ 1:49 pm (reply)

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Mrs. Bee

ack and you’re miss apple so its perfect - you gotta check the most current issue of ms weddings just for that layout.

9/28/06 @ 1:51 pm (reply)

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ald

What are you planning to do w/the engagement photo? If it was in the paper or someting with an announcement, it’d seem like they were your kids. If it’s for your own wall/collection, than do whatever you want, girl

9/28/06 @ 2:01 pm (reply)

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miss violet

great idea - you should do it!

9/28/06 @ 2:01 pm (reply)

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tristan

I love that idea!

9/28/06 @ 2:05 pm (reply)

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Susan

I think if you have lots and lots of kids in the pic–your fine. Otherwise–people are going to think they are yours!

9/28/06 @ 2:20 pm (reply)

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Jennifer

Why not take a portion pictures with the kids and the rest be traditional engagement photos with just the two of you?

9/28/06 @ 2:24 pm (reply)

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Jennifer

sorry that should be “a portion of the pictures”. No idea what a portion picture would be

9/28/06 @ 2:26 pm (reply)

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YuMMie

I think it’s a very sweet idea to include kids in your engagement photos since they’re so important to you and your FI. Just make sure you have some pictures of just the two of you alone =) oh and make sure the photographer loves kids and have experiences with them! Good luck!

9/28/06 @ 3:51 pm (reply)

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dapotato

i agree with Jennifer and Yummie above.

also, a lot of photographers do family portraits, so they have experience wrangling everyone in for posed and non-posed shots. check photographers’ ‘family’ or ‘portrait’ sections for examples.

here’s an example from my photographer’s blog (it’s more about the whole family, but as a starting point…). scroll all the way to the bottom:
http://mnphotography.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_mnphotography_archive.html

9/28/06 @ 4:01 pm (reply)

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Hel Hel

I think you should totally do it. Your photographer should accomodate and respect your ideas

9/28/06 @ 10:49 pm (reply)

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Kathy

Cute idea since ya’ll love kids so much. But I think he’s right about the management issue. Plus photograhers might not be too thrilled with the idea. Ya’ll can do it for family photos in the future. that will still be really cool! your bud…kat =)

10/3/06 @ 9:52 pm (reply)