Wedding Pictures on Christmas Cards?

thisismynickname2

If people can send me pictures of their babies, toddlers, small children, year after year after year after year as a holiday card, then I can send my wedding picture as a Christmas card, thank you very much. 

Just because I didn't procreate yet doesn't mean I can't use a picture of us, and what better picture than one of us looking fabulous and in love?

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VulgarGirl

thisismynickname said:

If people can send me pictures of their babies, toddlers, small children, year after year after year after year as a holiday card, then I can send my wedding picture as a Christmas card, thank you very much. 

Just because I didn't procreate yet doesn't mean I can't use a picture of us, and what better picture then one of us looking fabulous and in love?

About 5 years ago (maybe 6, it's too early to do math) FI and I decided to start doing Christmas cards with a picture of us smiling and being happy.

We got asked by so many people why bother because we weren't married yet and we didn't have kids. So apparently only married people, or people with offspring, can send out photo Christmas cards. Yeah well fuck that. I love doing our Christmas cards. 

Our first one was a picture of me giving FI a tattoo because we both looked adorable in the picture. 

theartistformerlyknownas

Well I guess my knottie mommy won't be getting a card from us, harumph. Our wedding pictures are gonna be the nicest portrait we have together all year. I'll be damned if i'm gonna pay for another photo shoot just to get "wintery" pictures. Hell, most photo cards I get have fall leaves and pumpkins because you need to take them so early to get them back in time. 

I mean sure, photo greeting cards are AWish to begin with, but IMO it's ridiculous to consider a wedding picture any more AWish than any other family photo.

Cookie Pusher

I usually hand-make themed Christmas cards, but I have to start them very early in the year to have enough made for everyone who requests to be on our list. With the wedding this year, I just didn't have that kind of time. If people get pissed that I send them a formal portrait of DH and I instead, well, they don't have to get Christmas cards from me ever again.

ohannabelle

MagicInk said: ohannabelle said: In the case of the snow pictures, I wouldn't side eye it a bit, because it makes sense.Pretty, magical snow pictures work. 
At the risk of sounding rude, I did get a Christmas card, months after the wedding, showing the honeymooning couple on a tropical beach. And I eye rolled, hard. Because Christmas/holiday cards are about Christmas/ holidays. Not about showing off your honeymoon or wedding pictures. Unless those pictures are specifically winter holiday themed. Maybe their mothers appreciated it. It honestly made my ass ache.
And apologies, but if anyone does do this, I think a tasteful "from our family to yours" or something like is so much more appropriate than Married Christmas or Our First Noel, Merry Married, etc. Because again, the holiday really isn't about your wedding. We were there, we saw it, we know, move on. 
I feel kind of Grinchy, but truth. Um...what if you don't live in a place that snows ever at all? No Christmas pictures for you? I gotta drive up north to take a picture with my spouse to put on our Christmas card?
Meh, I like pictures. I like cards. I like holidays. I'm an easily pleased girl.

SIB

Snow was just an example. Obviously, some people live in non-snowy places, and might have a holiday picture of their decorated palm tree, or whatever. If the aforementioned couple on the beach lived in New Zealand, and it was a photo of them enjoying a December walk on Piha Beach, that works.  I just think holiday cards should have some kind of actual connection to the season, and not just be a look at our wedding again opportunity. Because, yep, that seems AWish to me, months after the fact.

levieenrose

OP, you have my vote of confidence, too! 

I love getting photo cards. Of course, I also love getting personal, handwritten cards as well, but I'm not comparing the two. 

Growing up with such a culturally diverse household, I see holiday cards more as an opportunity to catch up with people you love rather than the conveyors of actual holiday wishes. We have friends that send A Year in Review letters about their family and that kind of thing. So I'm happy to get pictures of the people I love when they are looking happy and doing pleasurable things from the past year. 

We're sending photocards this year, but it's for a special reason. After we received our photos, we doled out the nicest pictures of our wedding guests to each corresponding guest so they could have some nice pictures of themselves from our wedding. But we saved a special one for the card. It's a picture of everyone (us and all of our guests) on the balcony at our wedding. So everyone who attended will get that card. Friends and family who couldn't come to the wedding will get our standard season's greetings cards instead.  

sarawifenow

We aren't doing our pictures on our Christmas cards, but we are planning on including pics from the wedding in the cards. For example, my photog sent me a sample pic that shows my SIL and BIL with my niece alongside H and I. It is a gorgeous family picture, so we thought it would be nice to include it. I say go for it!

ohannabelle

The last two examples make sense to me.

moutonrouge

I was planning to use our pictures. It won't be snowy and we might not even get pics outdoors. But there's a fireplace with some evergreen boughs on it at the inn, so I think we'll use that backdrop for them. Every other year has been a picture of our dog with Santa. 

doeydo

moutonrouge said:

I was planning to use our pictures. It won't be snowy and we might not even get pics outdoors. But there's a fireplace with some evergreen boughs on it at the inn, so I think we'll use that backdrop for them. Every other year has been a picture of our dog with Santa. 

Now that sounds like a nice photo card to me.  

holyguacamole79

MagicInk said:

thisismynickname said:

If people can send me pictures of their babies, toddlers, small children, year after year after year after year as a holiday card, then I can send my wedding picture as a Christmas card, thank you very much. 

Just because I didn't procreate yet doesn't mean I can't use a picture of us, and what better picture then one of us looking fabulous and in love?

About 5 years ago (maybe 6, it's too early to do math) FI and I decided to start doing Christmas cards with a picture of us smiling and being happy.

We got asked by so many people why bother because we weren't married yet and we didn't have kids. So apparently only married people, or people with offspring, can send out photo Christmas cards. Yeah well fuck that. I love doing our Christmas cards. 

Our first one was a picture of me giving FI a tattoo because we both looked adorable in the picture. 

I'm with you on this.  There is a fair chance that DH & I won't be able to have kids, so we will definitely send out pics of us.  When I was in college, two of my friends sent out joint Christmas cards.  The picture was of them sticking out their tongues.  One had just drank a green-colored sno-cone, and the other had just had a red one.  It was hilarious. 

I also get plenty of Christmas cards from people who include vacation pictures.  My parents have friends who take an awesome trip annually, and I always love seeing on their card where they visited that year.

princessofgenovia

Last year we did our first Christmas card together, it was the two of us on Santa's lap. 

This year we're thinking of using one from a BBQ at our friend's place, because it's a really nice picture of us. It's from September and has fuck all to do with Christmas. We just look adorable.

Most of our friends who've gotten married have used their wedding pictures in their Christmas cards. We'll probably do the same once we get married and also have pictures.

Alikat9614

I love Christmas. I love Christmas cards. I do think photo christmas cards are a bit AWish. I still display them with all the rest of the cards, even if it means staring at a half naked baby in a Santa hat all season. The Christmas/just married cards are cute, but just not my style.