Mrs. Bluebell, New York
Age and Occupation in 07: 26, Finance Manager
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Playing with the cat and/or Consulting
Engagement Date: December 25, 2005
Wedding Date: June 2007
Venue: Bride's family summer home in the Adirondacks
About Me: Trying to find the perfect balance between family tradition (marrying at the house everyone else in my family gets married at), making our's modern, interesting and different from everyone else in my family's, and incorporating some Chinese tradition for my Chinese fiance. I really have no idea what it's going to end up looking like!
Also, I picked Miss Bluebell for my name because I have blue eyes and I'm a loser like that.
Family Portraits
August 20th, 2007 @ 12:29 pm by Mrs. Bluebell
After the ceremony, we took a few quick family portraits before enjoying cocktail hour.
Mr. & Mrs. Bluebell with my parents
With Mr. Bluebell’s parents and little brother.
With Mr. Bluebell’s brother (who facebook family-ed me back in the day!)
with my mom
This photo always makes me tear up. 
Then we enjoyed a bit of the cocktail hour, took our portraits by the lake, did some toasts, and then got a few group shots of larger family groups.
…but first, Jane took one of my uncle (everyone always loves photographing him!)
For some reason, I love this picture of us all getting into position before we’re fully posed.
But don’t worry - there’s a posed version too!
And the other side of the family!
My beautiful sister-in-law (slash last minute DOC)
My “nephew” 
(brother and sister-in-law’s dog)
Isn’t he handsome?
My adorable little cousin with his pig!
And let’s not forget my family’s dog!! Best dog ever, just for the record. 
An older cousin.
…and one last one of my mom!
All photographs by Jane Heller.
15 Responses to “Family Portraits”
Beautiful family photos!
How long did it take to do your posed family photos? We’re having a live band at our cocktail hour, and I really don’t want to spend the whole time taking photos. My photographer swears it will only take him 15 minutes to do posed photos, but I’m not sure I believe him!
Love that pic of you and ur mom! you look beautiful! and the dogs are so cute! congrats to you and mr. bluebell.
Oh - I love the doggie photos!!! I’m curious how long it too for the posed family photo too. Especially when the dogs looked so posed as well!
Thanks Kara & Miss Daffodil! 
Kara - the posed shots right after the ceremony were for me with my parents, brother, and sister in law in various combinations, and then pretty much all the aunt/uncle/cousin etc combinations for Mr. Bluebell’s side. That took about 30 minutes. Then we spent another 15 before dinner by the barn for the large group shots of my family (all the aunts/uncles/cousins on each of my parents’ sides). There were just too many people to gather together up by the house for my people, and then too MANY of Mr. Bluebell’s which is why we didn’t get one big huge everyone on his side photo. We did have a list of shots, but ended up not really going with it b/c last minute we were like “whatever, we don’t need THAT combination!” etc and changed the order around when some people were around but others weren’t etc. It was a bit chaotic, but still fairly quick though!
Oops, thanks Sara too!
And no, the dogs actually weren’t posed! Jane just really liked them so she made a point of learning their names and talking to them and just getting up in their faces at random points. But seriously, the dog portraits are some of my favorites from the entire day! 
you certainly have a very photogenic uncle. i can see why photographers love him.
but all the pics are simply beautiful.
I love your pictures!!! I also love the dog’s appearance in all pictures. All in all- Simply perfect.
You are channeling Uma Thurman!
I love your dress! Who is the designer?
Aw! You look so beautiful, your family looks so happy and your dogs are awesome!
Very nice pics indeed!
I heart your mom! Lovely lovely photos!
I LOVE!! the non posed family portrait- It feels more like a realistic glimpse into your family. I love it. Genius!
great natural shots.
LOVING the veil. Are you selling? 
I’m with Andria. You’re dress is gorgeous! Please share the designer.
