So I need some help. We are thinking about hiring a photographer to take pictures at the baby shower and possibly at a gender reveal party if we have one. My family says there is no point that people will be taking pictures anyways why hire someone. I get that but I just want people to be able to enjoy themselves and not have to worry about taking pictures.
My next problem is to have a gender reveal party or just a picture session with just my husband and I. I want to do some sort of gender reveal but everyone I talk to says why have a party that people will confuse it with the baby shower. So I am stuck on either to have a party to reveal the gender or to just have something for my husband and I.
Any help on either question would be great!!!
Re: Hiring Someone To Take Pictures at Baby Shower and Gender Reveal Party?????
If you can afford a professional photographer why not? The pictures always turn out far better and if it's important to you to have that keepsake then do it.
I wouldn't worry about it being pretentious.
I think hiring a photographer is a good idea, if they are reasonably priced. At my bridal shower, I had one of my bridesmaids responsible for taking pictures and most of them were not good quality.
Also, when I become pregnant I plan on organizing a gender reveal probably just for my immediate family and real close friends. I don't really care what people say about the parties, if they don't want to come then they don't have too. Also, I would let them know that at the gender reveal party, gifts are not required.
Hope this helps.
Absolutely all of this. Agree one hundred percent.
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I can understand wanting the photographer. Like other PP I wish I had one at my Bridal Shower. Although my SIL and my sister took photos, none of them turned out well at all. The lighting was very funny in the room and almost photo is very fuzzy. I am very big into photographs are those are the one thing that lasts over time that you can always look back on, show your children, grand children, etc. I will have the same person who has done multiple photo shoots for me, for various reason, come shoot the baby shower, do our maternity picture, and she will also do the hospital/birthing photos.
As for the gender reveal party -- I would agree with others that a party isn't necessary. I do disagree with someone that "no one" cares about the gender of your baby like you do. I know our parents, grandparents and siblings will be super excited to find out the sex. We will find a special way to tell our families the gender, but just a FB post for everyone else to find out.
Just my two thoughts!
Married: August 2012
DD: 9/22/2014
I'd forget the photographer for your shower. I would instead take the money and do awesome maternity shots with you and your husband.
For gender reveal in my opinion the only people to invite are the grandparents and any siblings. No one else cares that much.
You are right, no one else may ever care enough to look at pictures from my shower. I; however, will and do care enough. I constantly look through my photographs. And it is not photos of me opening presents that I care about -- I could give two crap less about those. It's photographs with the people attending the event that I cherish the most.
After my wedding a very close friend of mine passed away three weeks later from cancer. The last photo I have is with me dancing with him at my reception. It is a photo I will cherish forever, as they were like a second father figure in my life.
Why do you care so much if someone wants to have a photographer or nice pictures of their shower for them to look back on? It's not like you are being forced to look at them. Geesh.
Married: August 2012
DD: 9/22/2014
You're right, things have gotten over the top. My mom certainly didn't have a professional photographer at her baby showers, but its a fairly inexpensive indulgence. You're not making an album out of just baby shower photos and Personally, I'm having a ton of cutesy details I want professionally captured and I want pictures of my guests playing games, so my guests will want to see those photos, yes - not just me. I don't want a ton of photos opening gifts, I want one or two: the tear jerker and the "I don't understand what this is for (yet)". A good photographer, like mine, was never in the way at our wedding, much less at a shower with .08 of the population from wedding.
As a guest I really wouldn't care about pics from your shower. I really wouldn't care about pics from my mom's or grandmother's shower.
All those little shower details and the "tear jerker pose" are sort if unimportant in the grand scheme of things. I guarantee once LO is born you'll have more precious things on your mind.
What I do treasure are our maternity photos and the professional pics of DD.
I say go for it ...If the details are that unimportant and in the grand scheme no one really cares about all the cutsie things or small details at the shower than what's the point of doing them. Have you photographer if you'd like I'm over the top and all my friends and family know it I was born this way ..and this Lil girl is more than likely gonna be over the top as well ! :