Family pictures.. do we include DS's G/F?

[Camelot Farms]

I vote for the groupings also.

DH has a blended family so we must have done 20 different groups so no one felt left out and everyone just bought the ones that they themselves wanted.

 

[koop]

If he's not commited enough to the relationship to get married then she isn't important enough to be in the pictures, like you said drama queen, who knows if they will be together long enough for the pictures to get developed.

 

[joebryant]

Of course you do because you might not like your future daughter-in-law and you'll have a picture to show/reming her of what might have been.

 

[Southernbelle]

I'd probably say no, only because you want a family photo of you, your husband and your children. (Not spouses, significant others, best friends, pets and neighborhood children that visit so often they might as well be yours.) If he insists she come, the idea of seperate packages sounds like a really good one.

On the other hand, when I was dating my husband I attended the weddings of all his other siblings long before we were engaged/married. I was flattered when they asked me to join them in some of the professional pictures. I wasn't expecting it since we weren't married and I wouldn't have been insulted if I was excluded. Since I did marry into the family, it's nice to have shared those moments with them.

 

[BarkerChickens]

I voted other. DH and I were together for 5.5 years before we got married...living together, pretty much married situation. We had family pictures with immediate family only, kids only, blah-blah-blah and then we had pictures of everyone (boyfriend/girlfriend included). My family figured there were pictures of just family and then pics of those important on each person's life. No one ever complained since everyone was included, yet if things didn't work out, pics weren't "ruined" for the future.

Honestly, my husband was kind of shocked when my grandmother insisted he be included since we had been together for 3 or 4 yrs at that point.

 

[JasperCountyNative]

First of all I would say, do what you have to do to keep the peace. If he is going to flip out over this, then you need to ask yourself if it's worth the drama.

Secondly, another way to look at this is that he, not you, is the one excluding her from the family by not marrying her.

Just my opinion.

 

[charmed one]

We had a family photo taken in January. The whole family was together. 14 of us.....15 counting my DD's boyfriend of 3 years. They loved each other....whatever....He moved out a couple of weeks ago and I would give anything if I could erase him from the picture. Just my opinion....Family only photo.... I voted NO.