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Ugh, family pictures fail (LONG)

Court0026Court0026 member
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We were supposed to have pictures taken by the photographer that we love with my sister, BIL and parents for my parents' 30th anniversary in the fall.  My mom was all about shots of everyone, but also a focus on the kids as they are only this little once, blah blah blah.  It got pushed back and pushed back (sister in Buffalo, parents in Syracuse, me in Utica) and now everyone wants to wait for my sister's baby to be born.  Great because that will be so nice, but another year is a long ways away and we wanted them done now to capture these little ones at this stage.  My mom offered to pay and I am sure I told her no because they are super generous, but then she kept asking me and asking me to schedule.  The photographer said my mom already paid, so I awesomely wrote her this long email thanking her.  And she awesomely wrote back and said she did not pay and he was mistaken.  We had them done last week.  So fast forward to last night when I realized how much they were going to cost.  Yikes.  DH is going to freak. 

Fast forward to today and he sent us a link to view them (we will get a cd with 176 pictures) and I could not look fatter.  I look pregnant in all of them.  I am so sad!  The guy is great and the kids look amazing, but the pictures just aren't doing it for me and I look so awful.  So so so so sad.  And I still haven't figured out how to tell DH.  FWIW, the prices went up $100 I think from last year and I was forgetting that the cd is $100 in addition to the sitting fee.  *sigh*  Thanks for "listening"

O 10.08 & MJ 6.10
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Re: Ugh, family pictures fail (LONG)

  • jnk062602jnk062602
    Hopefully he won't realize and will never charge you?  Jeeze, that sucks though.  An extra $200 for something you aren't even loving is hard to swallow.
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    Yeah, thanks for getting it.  I felt I had to be honest and tell him because he is becoming a family friend, we know him through other people and he spent 2.5 hours with us plus it is the right thing to do, but I was really hoping he would tell me that I was wrong again.  I would post a picture on here if I could figure it out from the website.  Argh.  I also emailed him because in the midst of all the pictures, there was only one that he showed DH and I and it was of Mia with me and it was amazing.  It did not show up in the final ones.  I hope I feel better about it tomorrow.  I didn't sleep last night and realize I should have done my homework ahead of time.  That said, I did get 176 pretty good pictures.  Some of them even have both kids looking cute which I have not accomplished more than 5 times maybe in the last year :)
    O 10.08 & MJ 6.10
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  • jnk062602jnk062602

    I'll tell you - I got into a "free" program when dd was born.  DH didn't want me to do it, but I went ahead anyway.  I didn't realize you had to say ahead of time that all you were going to do was get the free program, and thought I could see the other pics the guy took and then decide if I wanted to purchase more.  It was something to do with he would have only done like a mini shoot or something.  But anyway it was a full year program (3, 6, 9, and 12 months) and it ended up costing a fortune.  And royally pissed DH off bc "he knew this would happen".

    BUT, we have some really great photos.  And I have 1 amazing photo that I LOVE and for that single photo alone it will always have been worth it to me.

    The kids will grow up.  And you probably would have found something else to spend that money on that wouldn't have ended up having the same value to you in the future.  At least that is what I say when DH talks about how I got roped in to spending a fortune haha.

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    Oh wow, that sounds like you got roped into something great, but a little shady too.  What a crazy commitment.  Glad you got at least one that you love.  It is hard to capture just what we are expecting with our LO's!  They move so fast and we have such high expectations.  When you have 2 it will be even more of a challenge, but probably even more important to you to get pictures of them together.  I took my kids to Portrait Innovations because I had a friend who took her 1 kid in and got that huge package of one pose for $9.95.  Not me though.  LOL, I spent $120 because there wasn't one good picture of them together.  I had to get some of each.  Gotta love it, but it was worth it!  I do cherish the pics I got that day of DS.  Feeling better.  Thanks.
    O 10.08 & MJ 6.10
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