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Coordinating Outfits for Family Photos

By Bre

It’s that time of year again. You know getting that fabulous family picture for those darn holiday cards! Is it me or is fall like national take your family picture time. Whether you hire someone to take your photos, or tackle that task yourself, I’ve been there and I’ve done both, and regardless of who is behind the camera, you want the ones in front of the camera looking their best. Gone are the days of jeans with a white button down shirt, or kakis with a black shirt. Todays family photos strive for a more relaxed casual feel. More candid instead of planned. And while we all long for a magazine ad outcome (totally laughing out loud) accomplishing that relaxed look can be more difficult than we thought when if comes to coordinating outfits. Today I’m going to share how I pick out clothes for our family photos.

Last fall, the stars aligned and we had the most wonderful family photo session, 
with an amazing photographer, and great friend of ours. 
In order to capture those amazing family portraits that you long for, picking the right photographer is key! If you want a more candid, natural shot, you aren’t going to go to Sears for family pictures and have them sit you in a row. The same thing applies when hiring a decorator. If your style was totally modern, you wouldn’t want to hire me because our styles wouldn’t gel. The same goes for picking a family photographer, you want to choose someone who already executes the style you are going after.

Just like in decorating a home, layers gives dimension, and adds warmth, not to mention it’s slimming, so when choosing your outfits, add layers. In this session our colors are blue, grey, and white. Sounds similar to my home decor colors right? Choose colors that you already naturally pull towards, you feel most comfortable in them, and it will look the most natural.

While we are all in jeans, you can see in the photo above my daughter is in a denim skirt, with grey cable knit tights, that happen to match her brothers grey cable knit sweater. Along with adding layers, different textures can also help contribute coordinating outfits by a play on texture. Her white fur vest adds texture, while the white coordinates with my husbands white sweater.

Here you can see all the colors playing together, and while I didn’t want us to feel matchy matchy I still wanted us to look pulled together. For my husband and son, they both have a similar blue plaid button down shirts on, but layered with different sweaters that coordinate with the rest of our outfits.
And while getting the right outfits can be a challenge, expecting your children to behave like perfect tiny human beings can also be a challenge. At first I just wanted my kids to stand there perfectly still, with perfect little smiles on their faces. HELLO they were 4 and 2, what I was I thinking. Their squirmy, they don’t want to sit still, never mind have their pictures taken. 
This is when you sit back and trust your photographer. Don’t worry my husband had to keep me calm in the background and tell me it would be fine, because stress ball me, wanted to tell my kids to stop goofing off. But if I did, we would have missed out on gems like these, that will forever remind us of their tiny personalities, I am forever grateful they got captured.

I was mad she kept grabbing the grass, however you can see in the photo above, it didn’t even matter.
T R U S T your photographer. It’s why you hired them in the first place right?!?

She was mad he was beating her in the race. Perfect caption of their relationship at that age.
At the end of the day, enjoy the experience, enjoy the time with your family, these are memories you will have with you the rest of your life, and I’m so glad they were captured.
Many Thanks to my dear friend Stephanie at Princeton House Photography for capturing our family, and giving us beautiful photos to treasure.
To see other photos from our Family Photo shoot 2013, click here.
Happy Friday!

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