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Every year for the last 5, we've sent photo cards with pics of our "kids" (cats) to our friends and family... but this year, being the first year we're married, DH and I are sending out a "family" Christmas card this year with photos of our cats and a photo from our wedding.

Some people have told me that it's tacky to incorporate a wedding photo into our Christmas card, especially since we did wedding photo thank you cards to our guests... but I don't agree! Other people have told me it's nice, still others say it's "overkill" or "narcissistic"...

Either way, we're sending them, and I love them, but wanted to know what other bees thought...

Thoughts?

Oh, and post if you are a newlywed sending photo cards for the holidays OR if you're a newlywed and why you're choosing NOT to send photo cards?

@EvaBostonTerrier - has anyone (friends, family, coworkers, etc) made comments to you about whether or not they think it's a good or a bad idea?

@MissHobbit - thank you! I made them on photos.walmart.com and did the 1hr photo, so they were like $0.44 each, and came with envelopes!

We're sending photo Christmas cards using one of our wedding pictures... but we didn't send photo thank you cards.  I don't think people will mind even if you did send photo thank you cards.  I know I wouldn't even give it a second thought!

I think it would only be overkill if you sent a wedding picture Christmas card several years in a row :)

We're doing this too! I made a card of the photo where we posed with my husband's family at the wedding, and sending it to everyone n the picture. My parents are getting an entire album because we don't do cards in my family.

hahahaha @blueshoes2 - well we certainly won't be doing wedding photo cards next year for Christmas cards, LOL, could you IMAGINE?! We probably will go back to pics of just the kitties, or a "family" photo of the 4 of us, non-wedding related!

@Moose1209 - yeah, I would agree with that. Since we were married at the very end of September, and didn't get our photos back from the photographer until mid-November, we thought it might be a nice way to share some of the photos...

But I did have a friend get married in the beginning of August, and they are combining their Thank You Cards and their Christmas Cards... they've had their photos back since the end of August, so that seemed odd to me to hold off on Thank You Cards that long... but that's just my opinion... of course, that could be because we had a lot of overlapping guests and the bride made a comment to me that she was upset we sent our Thank Yous in November since our overlapping guests would wonder why she didn't send hers yet and I was making her look bad!

@ladyox, agreed! And kudos for not waiting til December for your Thank You's! LOL!

I dunno, I love getting photo cards, personally, so I guess I don't understand those who think that it's inappropriate!

@7SEVENJ9: we are newlywed (four months ago) and are sending out cards with our wedding on it! :)

I think it's funny that you opened your post by talking about how you normally put photos of the cats on the Christmas card, because that was my husband's only objection to our wedding-photo Christmas card - that it doesn't include the dog. Last year our card featured our entire "family" (me, him, the cat, and the dog), but this year it's just us on our wedding day.

If you just sent out thank you cards with your wedding photo on them in the last couple of months, then yes, I could see some people thinking it's overkill to receive another card from you with another wedding photo on it so soon. So in that way, I actually feel the opposite way than the poster who suggested it's not okay to have a wedding-photo Christmas card if your wedding was earlier in the year - but that only applies if you had a wedding photo on your recently-distributed thank-you cards. I don't think it's a big deal at all, though, and you should send them with the wedding photo if you want to.

So to answer your question, yes, our Christmas cards will feature our wedding photo, and this is the first photo that many of our guests see from the wedding, so I think it will be appreciated. (Not everyone is on Facebook). Plus there are all the people who couldn't make it to the wedding, so it's nice to help them feel a bit included in the celebration. I think Christmas cards are a great way to quickly update people on what's happened in your life in the last year, and a picture is worth a thousand words.

@kaybee, thanks! That's Azrael on the left and Lola on the right - my babies!

I love your card!  We're doing Happy New Year cards instead because I'm in the middle of writing our thank you cards from our wedding but we're certainly planning on incorporating a photo from our wedding on the front of our card!

@coconutmellie - why do you feel bad? I'm confused!