About school photos?

[MincePieFlavouredVoidka]

Both DS's had their photos taken at school, individually and one together.

So we are buying everyone (both dh and I have divorced parents and grandparents who want photos) a small one of the together one as its come out really nice. DS2's photos are not great so we are not buying that. I also wanted the one of DS1 as thats come out very nice and its his last at primary.

MIL saw that we are buying DS1's photo for ourselves and said that she would like one too. I explained that we were buying the couple one for everyone, bust she insist she wants an individual one.

I said I would order her one if she wanted to pay for it. She now isnt speaking to me (which is a result!) because I was cheeky enough to ask her for the money. DH is cross that I have upset his mum.

Now she is a bit of a loon at the best of times, but was I being unreasonable to ask her to pay. DH is Self Employed and things are a bit lean at the moment so money is tight and she knows this. Her argument is that we are buying one and its selfish just to buy for herself. I was sure I wbu but now I am doubting myself.

Thank God mine are no longer at primary school! I had this nightmare every Christmas. Even assuming you got a reasonable shot of the kids, the pricing system made it virtually impossible to get the combination of sizes we needed for "fairness." A couple of years DH and I ended up with passport-sized prints, whilst my parents had the luxury of the large 6x8 (because DM had a frame that size ) and MIL had the middle-sized one. We were then left with numerous odd-sized copies unsuitable for anyone.
To get three 6 x 8s (or 5x7s or whatever they were) cost a fortune! Quel surprise.

nikon got the right idea. Surely with digital cameras etc its gotten cheaper. Yes photographers are very expensive, my goodness mention weddings and the mark up is astronomical, how they can justify those prices.