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Jennifer, on June 16, 2019 at 5:57 PM Posted in Planning 0 5

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FH and I are having disagreements on formal family pictures. He wants it to be quick and doesn't understand why it's necessary to get the variations of pictures with parents, siblings etc. We are having a small wedding with only a matron of honor and best man so I know that part should be quick. Only my grandparents will be there so that should also be quick. FH does have a step family that he's not too close with since his dad passed away but we still want to include them in some pictures. Is it okay to just do step family pictures and then pictures with my parents, his mom and our blood siblings? FH also doesn't need pictures of just him with family. Is it common to cut out the just Bride/just Groom pictures with family and do Bride & Groom pictures with family? I'm getting so stressed and don't want to forget any pictures but I also want my FH to be okay with everything and I understand that were doing something small in a backyard so we don't necessarily need a ton of pictures. Any advice!?

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Latest activity by Alli, on June 17, 2019 at 1:46 PM

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Kelly · on June 16, 2019 at 6:02 PM
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We did parents/siblings/grandparents only. And we didn’t do any alone with our individual families, my husband and I just stood in the same spot and moved others in and out to get different combinations. He had step family as well but we were able to get all the family pictures done in about 15 minutes. Here’s a screenshot I took from my phone of the family pics so you can see how we stood in the same spot and switched out family members. We made a list to give to our photographer of the exact combinations we wanted and she called out names so it was quick!
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MOB So Cal · on June 16, 2019 at 6:31 PM
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Daughter & SIL did something very similar to Kelly. On the bride's side, we have a huge family. With just sticking to aunts & uncles, and only the cousins that daughter grew up seeing all the time, 40 of the 100 total guests were related to FOB or me. Luckily, the groom's family was only about 10 people. It was super important to us to get pictures (unfortunately, we've had too much experience with "that photo is the last picture we have of gramma with everyone," or whomever). The photographer had daughter make a detailed shot list, that we organized so the photos involving the largest groups of people would be taken first, that way cousins who were only in the first picture could scoot off to the cocktail hour. That meant we did the photos with only both/either set of parents last, because we were also in a lot of the bigger group photos. The photographer also asked daughter to appoint someone as "photo wrangler" who could quickly tell people who was in which pictures and help move people in and out quickly. We asked my two sisters to take on the task since they knew just about everybody on both sides. It was pretty efficient. We got through all the family photos in about 15 minutes or so (and, there were a lot of them...).
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Jennifer · on June 16, 2019 at 8:06 PM
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We're not doing formal portraits of us individually with family, except one of me and my siblings, that I want. All the other photos will be us together with different combinations of family. (His mom and step dad, his dad, my dad, all the parents, my whole family, his whole family, then everyone altogether).
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Mcskipper · on June 17, 2019 at 1:41 PM
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We don’t have just bride and family and just groom and family pics (kinda goes against the whole ....gist of the day, to me). We didn’t want to go down a rabbit hole with pics. We ONLY have us and my whole immediate family, and us and his whole immediate family as our formal group
portraits. It’s all about what you want, but we’re happy with ours.
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