Is there a tasteful/non-tacky/non-cringe way of putting DC on Christmas cards?

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Obviously my DC are the cutest so should adorn all Christmas cards ever. But some may disagree.

Was thinking a nice shot with matching outfits and "Merry Christmas from the Yoplate Family" or something.

I used to do these but just the kids when they were younger but I would use silly holiday photos like 2 monkeys and both the kids with monkey t shirts on. (Gibraltar) Only had a message inside. Got very good feedback on them and people asking me how they could make them. I wouldn't want my photo on and obviously not suitable for everyone but very popular with old folk.

I wouldn't do it either.

I suggest something tasteful like this!

It is only worth doing if your DCs are in their teens and if they're irritating/ lazy/ gross/moody/ uncooperative/ rude, you threaten to send one to their teacher and friends.

The kids, most definitely not, a festive dog photo on the other hand... Winning at life :)

Ignore the naysayers - totally go for the matching outfits, receiving a card like that would totally make my day

We had her pic on her thank you for the baby presents card and people really seemed to love it so I thought Christmas card would be OK. But now I see everyone thinks it's tacky sad

I don't think it's tacky in a bad way, and I'm sure people really did love getting pictures of your baby with her thank yous. It would be a bit sad not to get a picture with a baby thank you.

I don't think people are this miserable about it in real life, especially at Christmas.

I love photograph cards.

If you were, however, to send nativity cards with the face of the baby Jesus carefully removed and replaced with the face of your own child, together with his doting parents as Mary and Joseph gazing lovingly upon his wondrousness, I could acquiesce that perhaps you had indeed been somewhat tacky and tasteless with your choice of festive greeting.

It's so American!

We get half a dozen of these "holiday cards" (yuk, hate that term) from my DH's American colleagues every year. I look forward to them. They're so bizarre. As their families have grown, it's less cutesy and more "look at us all sitting on this wall in our chinos and polo shirts". One family includes the pets in the photo, last year the cat was missing and nobody said a word. Poor kitty!
Another one has recently left his wife and taken up with a young blonde hottie and we were treated to pics of them half-naked on a beach in Hawaii - on a Christmas card!!!

Actually I love them. So not British though!

I like getting them.

I also buy Mum, Brother etc cards. MN flips its collective lid about that too. Meh.

Rain go ahead, most people would love a cute little baby on their card.
But don't listen to me. I give out whole calendars full of my children's pictures and I'm not even ashamed of it

Oh I agree a new baby card is totally different. You must include a photo. I definitely want a picture on a thank you card for a baby.

No. Never.

We used to put a picture inside the card for family/close friends we haven't seen in a while when the DC were little. Usually a posy Christmassy themed one, or a silly one. Printed them on photo paper or on a Polaroid camera. Compromise on that maybe?

At a photographers with a Christmas setting and Father Christmas as well might be good and actually go beyond cringe?

I like the idea of them playing in the snow - but I don't want there to be any snow before December and it's not very likely!

Quite happy to embrace it as an Americanism - will just need to make sure to send it to people who will 'get' it.

Oh and definitely not including a round robin bragging letter.

I love getting them! And I love the bragging round robins! I'm American though. (I don't send any Christmas cards at all, it's amazing people still send them to me I guess.)

A friend used to get cards from her maj and from Chas n Di.They were always family photographs.

A friend used to get cards from her maj and from Chas n Di.They were always family photographs.

I think HM Queen is the exception that proves the rule, though

I think HRM is the exception

Nonsense. It just shows that photograph cards aren't in the least bit tacky. We have notions that anything we are unsure about that originated in American are tacky which derives from our fear of being seen as tacky.

There isn't anything awful about personalised cards other than you need to be quite organised to have them.

Enjoy OP! They are great fun.

I personally dislike them. A friend sends family photo Christmas cards. Her DH is a photographer, so could understand it when the children were young, but they're all adults now (one is married). A few friends send the round-robin letter. Also Ugh !

DP's family (some live in the US and some don't) send Christmas cards with their wedding photos on, sprig of holly drawn on the corner of the card. Nothing even remotely Christmassy about that - the weddings were held in hot weather about three or four years ago, usually on a hot island with tropical vibes. Just trying to keep the memory of their 'special day' alive. That really makes me cringe, and I tend to hide them behind all the proper, festive cards, depicting snow and robins At least my friend's photos have the family wearing Christmas jumpers (even though they still make my heart sink).

I love them. They are so deliciously tacky but in the best possible way. I do them but only send to family who might have pictures of my DC up anyway.

They are super cheesy but awesome. Haters gonna hate, the rest of us have a cheesy xmas!

No.

But.

Who cares.

We embrace the cringe. I'd never send a bragging letter but we do have an awful / awesome (depending on you POV) photograph on the front of our cards.

Last year was with a stone-snowman built on a pebble beach in Devon. It was the summer holidays but we took the Father Christmas hat with us as we knew what we wanted. It was a lovely photo and good fun taking it.