With this Wing: Family Poses

With this Wing: Family Poses

November 15th, 2010 @ 10:06 am by Mrs. Hot Wings
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I’m going to go a bit out of order for the next couple posts as I get us all through the formals. We did formals at 2 different times: before and after the civil ceremony. Even though we didn’t take all these photos at the same time or in this order, I would like to keep the family portraits to one post. Here’s the timing we used, for those of you working on your photography schedule.

Pre-Civil Ceremony

Groom & Groomsmen
Groom’s family
First Look
Bride & Groom
Bridals
Bride & Brideswomen
Couple & Wedding Party

After Civil Ceremony

Family Formals with Bride & Groom

Pre-Reception (cocktail hour time)

More Couple Shots

We started with Mr Hot Wings and his familia. Don’t the in laws look picture perfect? Sometimes I think they look like the picture of the model family that comes in frames. They’re so pretty!

Mr Hot Wings looks like the perfect blend of his mama and papa, doesn’t he? And Mama In Law looks gorgeous, right? That teal looks so great on her!

Mr. Hot Wings and his siblings:

Now mi familia…

Mama Hot Wings is rockin’ that dress, isn’t she? I’m so glad she let me put her in a sassy number.

I love this shot with Papa Hot Wings! He’s not much of a smiler, so this is pretty close.

And one with both Brothers Hot Wings.

After the civil ceremony, we took family formals including the married couple. We started by with snapping whatever we could because people started leaving. Siblings go…

Big family photo with all aunts, uncles, cousins, and immediately family that attended! This photo took A LOT of yelling, pointing, and dragging people into the shot, but oh gosh, am I happy to have it. It was worth every nasty bridal look I had to give.

Then Mr Hot Wings’ family were dismissed and we took a bride’s extended family photo. We never could get Mr Hot Wings’ extended family back together, so they didn’t get a photo.

Another yelling match ensued to get this photo. It was a serious pain. Our DOC told me she was leaving for the reception site to make sure set up was OK, and I said that would be fine. Oops. Doing that meant I had to take charge of gathering folks for these shots. I seriously would be upset if I didn’t get these next shots! Please please please make sure you take formals with your families. I know it’s annoying to gather everyone and make the time to do it, but I personally feel like this is the shot that we will end up cherishing and framing.

A snapshot with each set of parents, because you know these are the photos they want!

All together now…

And family formals are done. Phew! That was rough wasn’t it? It was for me too, but like I said earlier in the post, I honestly think it’s important. Don’t forget to do it. Find a time, put someone in charge, and MAKE. IT. HAPPEN. Tell them Hot Wings said so. Okay, maybe not. But you get my point.

How was your family formals experience?

*All photos by the ever fab Hanssie Trainor unless noted otherwise.*

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23 Responses to “With this Wing: Family Poses”

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gill84 (message) 725 posts, Busy bee

good for your for sticking it through! it was hot, and i was feeling badly about my photographer who is really a friend, and all the different combinations we wanted to do, and then my grandmother went and sat on a bench away from everyone because she hurt her ankle but i didn’t know, so we didn’t get some of the shots we wanted. i feel your frustration! good for you for sticking to your guns. if I was to replan a wedding I would put someone in charge of gathering everyone.

11/15/10 @ 10:26 am (reply)

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PitBulLover (message) 8,314 posts, Bee Keeper

I love family photos! I am really happy with our big family photos and it went a lot quicker than I thought. Its definitely hard to get everyone to keep their eyes open and smile though! Especially on a sunny day!

11/15/10 @ 10:29 am (reply)

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Mrs. Trail Mix (message) 6,328 posts, Bee Keeper

I love the background on all these photos, you can’t get much more picturesque!

11/15/10 @ 10:30 am (reply)

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Mrs. French Fries (message) 2,218 posts, Buzzing bee

Your formals turned out great! We had a hard time gathering (er…herding) people together for our formal pictures, too.

11/15/10 @ 10:32 am (reply)

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Mrs. Sand Dollar (message) 1,305 posts, Bumble bee

I adore that you took these by the beach, it makes such a great background. You look so beautiful!

11/15/10 @ 10:52 am (reply)

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Mrs. Turtle (message) 782 posts, Busy bee

Such beautiful family pictures!

11/15/10 @ 11:13 am (reply)

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Aubergold (message) 1,406 posts, Bumble bee

beautiful!! the mom are rocking it….they are sexayyyy!! haha

11/15/10 @ 11:24 am (reply)

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Kate

Your families are so beautiful! And I love the backdrop for these photos - simply stunning.

11/15/10 @ 11:46 am (reply)

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crayfish (message) 4,844 posts, Honey bee

I just LOVE your mom’s dress!

11/15/10 @ 12:48 pm (reply)

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Miss Earrings (message) 2,477 posts, Buzzing bee

Gorgeous pics And thanks for the excerpt from your photography schedule- we are trying to figure out ours now!

11/15/10 @ 1:45 pm (reply)

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Miss Cinnamon Bun (message) 1,100 posts, Bumble bee

Two gorgeous families! And good job on herding everyone, I can only imagine how hard that is!

11/15/10 @ 2:04 pm (reply)

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sarahcisme (message) 346 posts, Helper bee

These photos are beautiful! Mr. Hot Wings and his mom and dad all have exactly the same smile

11/15/10 @ 4:29 pm (reply)

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JillBill (message) 425 posts, Helper bee

I love that you got each family without the new addition and then each family WITH the new member… such a great strategy to capture each phase of the day

11/15/10 @ 9:23 pm (reply)

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jgoulart (message) 1,069 posts, Bumble bee

You have some good looking family members there Hot Wings!

11/15/10 @ 10:46 pm (reply)

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mrspaetz (message) 3,805 posts, Honey bee

I had just 1 shot of family formals our photographer is a photojournalist, not wedding photog, so unless we specified wanting certain shots, he shot FULLY photojournalistically. Very very sad that I missed all of these “boring” but important pictures.