Getting Ready Photos

If you're having a professional photographer, will they have a "second shooter"? If so, the photographer can be with you and whoever is with you getting ready and the second can be with the FH (and anyone else he might decide he wants with him, like his dad?). Once you're all at the venue, are you doing "first look" photos? If so, you can do a lot of wedding party and/or family shots then. Even if you and FH aren't going to see each other before the ceremony, you could each do photos with your own and both sides of the family before the ceremony. Worst comes to worst, just allow plenty of time after the ceremony for all the family photos -- and make a list of the exact groupings you want and give it to your photographer and at least one family member on each side, so they can all double-check the photographer gets everything you were hoping for.

I invited my stepdad & my husband's stepmom to get ready with us. I couldn't imagine excluding them, they are apart of our family. I honestly didn't care at all if another parent was annoyed they would be there. Not my divorce, not my problem. Here is a few of our getting ready photos:

The guys getting ready (they had beer & scotch in the groom's suite). My stepdad & my FIL are in this picture too.Me with my bridesmaids, flower girl, my mother, and my husband's mother & stepmother.The groom's suite right before the ceremony (groom, groomsmen, my dad & my FIL).