And NOW I have to have my sodding PHOTO taken by Venture. I have NOTHING to wear

[fillyjonk]

I really don't

I am somewhere in the first trimester, I am on baby no 3 so this is NOT good news.

I have to wear trousers but i look pretty crappy in trousers, having stupidly short legs.

Right now I have NO waist

oh and NO money

and NO time

wtf am i going to do?

Thoughts?

hatrick - do you make sure you get photos of yourselves though?

A friend has just lost someone close who hated having pics taken and she can't find a pic of him taken in the past 10 years -and it is really saddening her.

ISTR yorkiegirl went thru a lot to get all those pics of her DH too.

I could fkn follow me around for an afternoon, tbh

I can take good pics

oh i dunno, dp want this as a last photo of "just the four of us"

i am going seriously

and note that there are nearly 8 months to go til db's arrival

Bright coloured clothing works well because you have a white background.

The pictures are lovely, but be prepared to pay a lot!

oh i'm not doing it, i've decided

its too much effort. we'll just go to the park and set the camera up on timer

i can't be prancing about pretending to be in a magazine.

i utterly cannot stand their prints anyway, i would cringe with embarassment at putting one up.

my gp has one of her with her dogs fgs.

I didn't bring change of outfits for my 2 when they had this done a coiuple of years ago - it was really really stressful - the baby was crying and wasn't remotely interested in having her picture taken, and the photographer was getting quite snappish with her.......a baby! and of course with me

we took the freebie and ran - isn't a great shot, but I suppose best of the worst!
how did it go?

aha
good for you
much better at park

friends had it done and there weren't many of all 4 but and those there were had one adult/child pair in background in soft focus so didn't really matter what they wore. Go for something pale and floaty, why trousers fgs, turn up with stuff you feel comfy in , they can't force you after all ! If you are very lucky the "free" one may be a 10*8 but usually smaller (desktop).

We didn't take a change of outfits - DH & I went in jeans & DDs were dressed as little fairies. As it happened, in the end we chose close up pictures of our faces which didn't even show the outfits!! I luuurve my pictures and they make me smile when I look at them

i love my pics from venture. they cost a bloody fortune but worth it. try to stay away from wearing paler colours because you will dissapear in with the background

Wear black and put the kids in bright colours.

I wore a 3/4 length linen shirt dress thing with black legging on underneath, you all have bare feet. DP wore dark jeans and black l/slv top and girls both had on bright red little dress/top things over skinny fit dark wash jeans. The pics look fab.

I also had some taken where DD1 had on a bright green top with pink scarf twisted round her neck and DD2 had on a bright pink top with a green scarf twisted round hers. Those pics looked great too.

They really pump the colours up so brights on kids is good and I didn't do patterns / prints.

The one we chose was of DP and me squatting down next to girls who are in the middle and we are all really laughing. You don't see what we re wearing other than we are in black and the girls in a red colour, all you see are the smiles really.

I ended up going for black & white pictures, so the colours were not so important in the end!

head and shoulders shot?

My sis and her DH and new DD got a "free" session from somewhere. All well and good but the photos of DD were awful and yet the grandparents still felt obliged to pay £75 for one. Yep £75! No typo. As godmother I ws also under some pressure - buit they weren't even nice pics of lovely DD so I said no. Wish my parents had been as strong - they really could not afford it, but other GPs could so they felt guilty.

Don't let them push you around Filly - you are the customer! Be strong.