07/14/2026
Extended family sessions are a whole different kind of beautiful chaos... and I absolutely love them. ❤️
People often ask why extended family sessions are priced differently than a typical family session, and honestly... it's because we're creating so much more than one big group photo.
During a single session, we're usually photographing:
✨ The entire family together.
✨ Each individual family.
✨ Grandparents with all the grandkids.
✨ Grandparents with their adult children.
✨ Grandparents with each family.
✨ Individual portraits of every grandchild.
✨ Special parent/child combinations that don't happen very often.
..and sometimes even more.
This sweet family had 23 people. Twenty-three personalities. Twenty-three smiles. Twenty-three sets of eyes that all need to be looking at the camera at the same time. 😂
Spoiler alert: they aren't.
Someone blinks.
A toddler decides today is not picture day.
Someone glances at Grandma.
Someone makes the baby laugh at exactly the wrong moment.
That's where a lot of the magic happens after the session.
Behind the scenes, I'm carefully editing those large group portraits—swapping heads, fixing blinks, combining the best expressions—so everyone looks their best. It's one of the most time-consuming parts of my editing process, but it's worth every minute.
Because years from now, these won't just be photos.
They'll be the picture that hangs in Grandma and Grandpa's home.
The one the grandkids look back on when they're grown.
The image that becomes even more valuable as the years pass.
Yes, extended family sessions are a little chaotic.
But they're the kind of chaos that's completely worth preserving. ❤️
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