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WWYD? long sry
Ok ladies I need some help deciding what to do. It is no secret that I HATED, like seriously loathed, our wedding pictures. It still keeps me up at night with anger and sadness when I think about it. And I have been putting off getting my dress cleaned in hopes that I would be able to do a day after or TTD shoot somehow. Well my sister's friend is an AHmazing photographer and I have always wanted her to take pics of hubby and I but she lives in Cali and it would have cost way too much to fly her in for our wedding plus the photog. fee, etc. However, she just fb messaged me that she is going to be in my neck of the woods in March if I wanted to get together for a shoot. She is giving us a great deal and with our tax return $ DH says we can make it happen YAY!!
So here is the question: This is the only shoot like this I am going to be able to get (at least for a while) because we can't spend money like this on pictures regularly. So should we do a day after in our wedding clothes? Or should I accept the crappy pics I already have (like 2 are frameable) and go in regular clothes? DH thinks the latter so that all of our hanging pictures won't be wedding pics, but I can't decide. We didn't do engagement photos so we don't have decent ones of us already but I am having a hard time letting go of this wedding photos let down. But my mom has my wedding dress with her in louisiana so she'd have to ship it to me and that makes me nervous....UGH! What to do? I just don't want to look back on these pics and be disappointed again so I am trying to make the best decision.
Sorry for the ramble...what would you do?
Re: WWYD? long sry
Do both! Have the photographer take pics of you both in wedding attire and in regular clothes!
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Ditto Nicole, definitely see what she says about doing both!
I would try to do both if you can. DH and I actually haven't put any wedding photos up yet, we still have e-pics everywhere! I kind of love those more...but Iove our wedding ones, too.
If you can manage both, I would try. How long do you have the photog for?
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Yep I'd try to do both. If you think about it, do you think a few years down the road you'd ever get pix taken of you in your wedding attire? But you could certainly get some "regular" pix of you two at any point in your life.
I did TTD pix, and just wore my hair down curled and have a little dramatic eye makeup-nothing like how I wore either at my wedding. And I really liked how I looked in them. But if your DH also wore a tux or suit, you'd have some more casual & fun wedding type pix. I think you'd look back and be glad you did them!
I'd do what jamisull did - wear the wedding gear but with regular hair and make up. That way you can get some regular wedding shots and some TTD type shots.
Besides, if you went all out and got your hair done again, it probably wouldn't look the same. Plus, you'll know that the pictures weren't taken that same day, so it doesn't really matter that you look different than in your other pics.