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Wedding pic in holiday cards? Poll.
Yep, this is another holiday card question. Sorry... 
I've seen some varying opinions about this online, so I thought I'd ask here and get your opinions, as well. How do you feel about inserting a wedding photo into a holiday card? (It's not a photocard, just a regular holiday card.)
Right now, these are our basic options: (1) Send a pic of the two of us, and a pic of the person if our photog caught a great shot of them; (2) Send a pic of the two of us; (3) Don't send any pics.
Thoughts?
tia
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Re: Wedding pic in holiday cards? Poll.
I was married in August, and immediately sent out my thank you notes, before my wedding pictures were back. Many people have asked about how our wedding photos turned out, so we picked one of just DH and I, and we are using it as our Christmas card (we're doing a photo card) with a cheesy saying.
We feel since we just got married this year, it's appropriate. This was the big event of this year for us. We've received several Christmas cards with new baby pictures, family photos and favorite vacation photos, so we don't feel this is any different.
I think it's cute to send out your Christmas cards as your wedding pics. If you got married within the year it's fine. If you got married the previous year it's not fine. Even if you got married the previous Nov or a few days before Christmas the year before. That's just my opinion.
We got married in Sept and my mom had to beg the photog for family photos for their cards. We sent formal photos with us and the grandparents in them as gifts, or to the bridal party otherwise that was it.
I like seeing wedding pictures for Christmas cards. Sometimes this is the only way I stay in touch with a couple so it's nice to see that they got married, ect.
This. I do think it's weird to do a non-photo card THEN add a photo in it. JMO.
Stepping back in for a moment:
We're not doing a photo card because (and yes, I know I'm weird and in the minority here) I really, really don't like them. I especially don't like the ones that are more like postcards that people just send out with everything pre-printed, including the family members' signatures - we rec'd four of those last year. Ick. So traditional cards it was (plus, Papyrus had a big sale - I was suckered in.
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And the reason we were debating sending the wedding photo is that a lot of our guests simply couldn't afford to come to our wedding (distance + economy = smaller attendee list), and at least half of them don't have email/internet access (mainly our older relatives) so we couldn't just share the link to our photos with them. We've had a couple people ask about the wedding, and we thought this would be a nice way to include them.
I think we're going to just send a wallet-size photo of us from the wedding, but thanks for the opinions, everyone.
we did a photo card the year we were married. it was not one of those postcard types, but it was a really nice card that you placed the photo on the front of the card.
our pic was an artsy black and white shot of the wedding ceremony taken from the back of the church. i only sent the card to immediate friends and family who were at our wedding, not random work people. it was really pretty, i sort of wish i had kept one of the cards.
We did a photo card this year but not from the wedding. Instead we took our family pictures at the house that we just bought and used that instead.
We got married in August also, but I didnt want to spend all the money to print the pictures for the whole list we send cards to. I made special photobooks through shutterfly for the people in the wedding and I ordered prints for the parents to put into a large album to give as a christmas gift along with a candle replica of our sand ceremony vases.