Family Pictures Prep

So long story short, I was not super pleased with Dan and mine's wedding photos.  We used a photographer friend who really is a great photographer, but does mostly commercial photos and high-impact editing.  Unfortuately, I don't think we (really, I) thought through what I envisioned for our wedding photos enough and didn't do a good job of communicating what I wanted to our photographer. Alas, Dan and I only have like, 2 photos of us that I could put in a frame and call "our wedding photo", you know? That's sad to me.  I wish we would have spent the money to hire a wedding-specific photographer who knows what poses to get, who understands the emotion of a wedding and could capture that for us. It was also really cold and rainy the day we got married so I was kinda over standing outside in the freezing rain taking pcitures faster than I normally would.

Anyways.

Since then, I've really wanted to get some photos of Dan and I taken as sort of a supplement to our wedding pics.  With being pregnant, it also seemed appropriate to document this time in our lives with some beautiful, high quality photos.  I'm not super into the whole "maternity photoshoot" that seems really popular with most expecting women these days - I'm just not that person, ok? But I definitely liked the idea of including Dan and calling these our first photos as a little family :)

We'll be taking them outside, at this beautiful farm. No, we are not farm people, but the setting really is quite beautiful and simple, with a pretty green field, lots of surrounding tall trees and the mountains in the background. Here's another family's session at the same location.

Anyway, I've been searching long and hard for outfit ideas for both me and Dan.  NOT EASY.  I've seriously purchased, like, 5 dresses with hopes that one of them works.

I was really excited when I found this dress in particular from ASOS:

 Super pretty, right?!!??

Well, I ordered it.... I ordered it without really taking a closer look at the subsequent pictures.
After I ordered it, I went back to see it again because I was pretty excited about it.  Upon closer review, I realized this dress was in fact missing a sleeve:

The hell?!?! I didn't even realize that when I first looked.  Um, lame.  The one-sided twisted sleeve is lame. Ugh. Could have been perfect. I'm still pretty sad about it.

I found and ordered a couple other options from Pink Blush Maternity:

 These are actually the same dress, but I couldn't pick a color so I got both. I'll return one or both if they don't work, I promise!

I'm also trying this one on at J. Crew this weekend (not in red. I like the teal below). I'll probably have to order it online in a TALL though because I am huge.

I also need to find Dan something to wear! Hopefully, that effort is a lot easier.