October 2009 Weddings
Dear Community,
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Is it weird to...
do photo christmas cards if you don't have kids?
I started a general poll on the family matters board about christmas cards and someone mentioned photo cards. I've thought about doing them in the past, but felt it would be weird with just DH and I. I almost feel like photo cards should be used to show off your kids ...or special event pics (wedding, maternity, etc.).
Am I being weird?
Re: Is it weird to...
I don't think it's weird, but then I know a lot of couples without kids. And that includes older couples who will not be having kids. Does that mean they're not allowed to send out pics of themselves?
We didn't have a major event this year and I was going to send out photo cards of just DH and myself, but couldn't find a photo that I wanted to use. (The card I included with your ornament was actually left over from last year. I thought you might like it
)
DH and I did a photocard this year. Granted, yes, I am pregnant, but that wasn't the "focus" of our card. We got cute Christmas tshirts from Target and posed with our dog and just did a fun photo (you can't even really tell I'm 8 months pregnant in the picture, I just look super bloated lol!). We decided to do photo cards because we've got lots of family out of state and around the country. Since we mailed them out, we've gotten quite a few compliments from people about how they liked them!
I don't think it's weird if you want to do one with just you and DH, but I can understand your hesitation. I had the same hesitation around Thanksgiving about doing our Christmas card just us, no kids, but we figured we'd make it fun and light hearted.
GL!!
LoL, people get funny about Christmas Cards. Take Christmas Letters, for example. Some people like them, but A LOT of people hate them. So my rational is that if a lot of people don't like christmas newsletters about the lives of the senders, they also wouldn't appreciate pictures of them either... especially if they're not cute to look at.
But maybe next year we'll look into doing some fun pictures.
I kinda like the photo cards - even for people who don't have kids. The few I've gotten from non children families have photos of fabulous trips or life events that I wouldn't see otherwise.
We sent one last year with a wedding photo on it because I knew people would want to see it. Got oodles of compliments and my Mom actually has it in a frame because she liked it so much! They were flat 5x7 style ones but I wrote personal messages on the backs of them all because I hate it when people obviously went through a stack of cards and just signed their names with nothing else. Why bother sending a card if you don't make it personal (in my humble opinion)?
We have done photo Christmas cards for a few years now and we don't have kids. But we do have a dog... and he's usually featured on our card.
Sometimes we're on it and sometimes it's just him.
I think you should do whatever you want! We do photo cards because they're so easy and you don't have to write anything on them or sign them!
Update: I don't think photo cards are the same as Christmas letters are in the level of annoyance. I really don't like the letters either, but I think photo cards are very different and not NEAR as annoying. Photo cards are becoming the "norm" as far as I can tell... we've gotten about 6 or 8 cards so far and only 1 was a normal (non-photo) card.
I think it's ok but DH thinks it's weird.
I have always thought it was silly to send a card and not write at least a few sentances... so that bugs me more than a picture of adults. But I love writing notes (and getting them!) so that's probably why.
MY BLOG!
I will say that I definitely prefer the folded photo cards. I hate the cheapy photo prints that most people send out. I usually display all of our cards and it makes it super tough to display the flat photo cards-they don't stand up. That, and after a while they start to curl and just look yucky. But then, I am sort of a paper snob
Personally I hate the newsletters, but I did send one out this year with some of our cards- only to the relatives and friends that we never see/talk to, just so they know what's going on with us. We've had a lot happen this year, and although I don't think people our age like reading the newsletters, I know our older friends and relatives will appreciate it (e.g. DH's great aunt who lives halfway across the country).
We did a photo card this year (1st time) and we don't have kids, so no I don't think its weird. I did choose one with one picture space b/c I thought it would be weird to do a three photo one without kids (like three different pics of us, that to me is odd). Here are the perks to me about the photo card:
1. We have not seen people in over a year (since we moved), so I thought a picture would be nice.
2. They only go to family and close friends. I would never give coworkers a photo of us.
3. They were cheaper
4. All I had to do was order them, stuff the envelopes, and mail them out. WAY.LESS.WORK.
They were a big hit with everyone so I think we will continue to use them. Oh, and I HATE the newsletter but to me the pic card isn't on the same level unless youre giving it out to people you hardly know.
I send more that 100 cards every year. In the 30 years we have been married, We lived 10 different places in 5 different states. I try to cut down, but it never seems to work. When we had Heather, we used to send photos of her in cards (before the advent of inexpensive photo cards). I've also sent a Christmas letter probably 20 times in 30 years. I've missed some years due to illness, timing,etc. and every time I miss,I get notes from people asking for it. In the beginning, it was just a half page. When we moved to California, during the popularity of Beverly Hills 90210, I started doing a take on a "serial" show called Corona 92880. Sometimes they were scripts, sometimes they were network announcements...different things. As the address changes, so did the show title. Kind of like a soap opera. It's fun to write and people seem to enjoy it.
That being said, if you are going to write one, make it fast, funny and light. If you are going to send photos...make them fun!