Fashion Friday: How To Dress For Family Photos

 

I am back to hopefully posting a fashion related post on Friday's and life happenings on Wednesdays.  It's good to be back at work and to be getting back to somewhat of a routine after a completely laidback summer. 

 

Every couple of years I try to get family photos done and this year it was especially important for me to have the family photos taken at our lake to commemorate how special this summer was to us as a family and to celebrate this new chapter of our family life.  It just happens that my best friend Ashley is a photographer and was going to be staying with us for five days with her family!  How perfect is that!  

 

If you are like me, I don't want to drop a ton of extra $ on getting everyone new outfits so this is how I plan for  picture session:

 

1.  Pick your season.  Seasons are critical and as well as time of day.  Last time we did fall photos so it was all about jewel toned colors and boots.  This year though I wanted sunset, blue lake, soft pastels, to represent the warm summer nights and the golden sunset.

 

2.  Pick one outfit or a couple that you want to wear and build around that.  I knew I wanted to wear my chambray dress for the photoshoot and since the girls have lots of cute dresses, I thought we could find a color combo that would work.  My husband is always the hardest because he has the least in his closet. 

 

3.  Start creating a Pinterest board that has color schemes to go along with the one outfit you want to build around.  Here is my Pinterest Board for summer photos.  Also I think this is great for getting ideas to share with your photographer or to give you ideas of props you might want to bring along.

 

4.  Create flat lays of the different outfit combinations and take pictures to see how they show up together. 

 

5.  If  you have certain frames that you want to fill with certain combinations of family members, note to self if you want the photos to be vertical or horizontal.  We didn't do that this time but I always ask the photographer for  certain shots so that I can switch out the photos in my frames.

 

Here is a sample of some of my favorite shots from the shoot.  (p.s. I took a few these)

 

 

 

 

Have a great weekend everyone!