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Wedding Album
So we are just now getting to pick out pictures for our wedding books. We get 1 and then we have 2 parents books. So I asked my stepmom to talk to my dad and pick out pictures for their book. The parents books hold anywhere from 80-100 pictures and ours holds 100-120. So my stepmom sent me an email today with the list of pictures they wanted.
They picked 74 pictures which is fine I added a few more BUT what got me is almost every picture had her or my dad in them. Only like 5-6 were of just me or me and H. I get it is for them but it's very odd. They also left out the majority of the pictures of the rest of our family. Including a picture of me and my grandfather (Dad's dad.)
So of course the ones I added were more of me and H and then the rest of my family. This really kind of irratates me though and it makes them look so conceaded (sp?). I guess it is their book and I don't have to look at it everyday so I should worry about it.
Ugh! Just my little vent for the day!
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That is odd. But then I made our parents books for them and now that I think about it, didn't really get a lot of input from them on what pictures and went ahead and picked out all the pictures myself. There are a lot of the two of us, and then for each seperate family I weighed the pictures more on their family side.
So I'm thinking I might be a little conceaded myself with just putting in what pictures I thought they should have! Truth be told, I actually like their books better than ours.
If I were you I would add the pictures that you want to their books. Although it isn't your book, it is pictures of your wedding and therefore you have some say in what goes in those books. Just my thoughts....
Our Parents still don't know they are getting a book...they have seen ours but they will get thiers for Christmas.
In ours I put lots of the more artistic photos and almost all the pictures are just me and H or with the bridal party (I think there is one family photo) and then the parents books are more of a 'storybook', they tell the story of the day with the first pages being gettings ready, a page of ceremony stuff, then all the formal family pictures and less with the bridal party (But still the best of the bridal party ones), and some of the receptions (ours didnt have any reception photos). We liked that thiers told a story so much we ended up ordering another one (so a 3rd one) of the parents books so we can have one for us too!
I think parents appriciate the 'story' of the day more then the "high end photography' that the bride and groom tend to like, and I would definately make sure theres LOTs of photos of family in it!
In the end I am sure they will be happy to get anything though, so don't stress out too much over it!
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Wow, good for you guys for even giving them a say! Both our parent albums were just a smaller copy of my wedding album. Made it way easier! But my mom did complain that she didn't like our photographer because there weren't more photos of her. I guess there weren't a ton, but we were paying her to photograph us, since you know...we were the bride & groom!
And PS - for future reference, it's "conceited" =]
Ours were too. I know my Mom was hoping for more pics of her side of the family in their album, but they didn't have a say. I told her that I'd help her make a shutterfly album or something like that so she can customize her own album with more pics of other people too.
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That was very odd of them to not include pictures of the BRIDE and GROOM. It was nice of you to allow them to choose pictures. I made a book for each set of parents on Shutterfly, and I didn't tell them they were getting them. I wanted it to be a surprise. They got alot of the same pictures, but since my mom was there while I was getting ready, she got more of those shots than MIL did.
I have yet to finish our book. I just lost momentum.
Anyway. Good for you for adding more pictures of you and your H and the family. The books really should tell a story, not just be a book with a bunch of pictures. It's not like this was a special day or anything
It is different, but I'd let it go. Like you said, you don't have to look at it and if that's what they wanted, let 'em have it.
Very thoughtful of you to make the book and let them pick. That's a good idea, maybe I'll make some for our parents.