Heather Caraway Photography

Christmas Special, High School senior specials, and a quick update

First and foremost I want to apologize from the bottom of my heart for neglecting this blog very badly. One of my goals is to start to keep this blog current, so I just pray that exciting things will start to happen so I won’t bore y’all to death, lol. Also for all you high school seniors, I do have some seceret specials for you all. But, you must contact me in order to find out these specials. I want to ensure that all Seniors are able to get the senior portraits that they truely want which is the reason for the specials. SO, contact me asap!!

 Secondly I want to talk about Christmas Portrait sessions. I thought long and hard about exactly how I wanted to conduct Christmas portrait sessions, exactly what I wanted to offer, and even if I really wanted to even offer Christmas portrait sessions this holiday season. So, here is what I have come up with. 

Unfortunately due to a very busy schedule I haven’t had to time to put much thought into what I wanted to do regarding Christmas Portrait specials until recently and which in turn has put me into a very small window of time to be able to do sessions and ensure that print orders are received by Christmas. So, I finally decided that I was just going to have to sit down and get it all figured out, whether I had the time to or not, or just not offer Christmas portrait sessions at all. So, here is a quick summary of what I have decided to do.     

1) I have tried to put together at least one collection that would appeal to all potential clients, with the hopes of giving most everyone the opportunity get receive the luxury of custom portrait photography this holiday season. And in the next day or two I will post another blog that will go in depth about the collections and all prices for the Christmas special.     

2) All sessions will be “mini” sessions, meaning that they will be approx. 30min long and the session will consist of  3 different poses; the family all together, the parents together; the children together. I will have an option for you to receive individual portraits of the children which will incur an additional fee which in turn will increase the length of the portrait session to approx. 1 hour.     

3) The dates that will be dedicated to the Christmas special sessions will be: Nov. 15th; Nov. 22nd; and Nov. 29th… the day of Nov. 29th will be reserved for those that are looking to purchase prints only and don’t require that Christmas cards be mailed out prior to Christmas as I cannot guarantee the purchase of Christmas cards will be delivered with ample time for you to mail and/or hand them out to family and friends prior to Christmas. Also, with these end of the season dates I will not be offering albums, custom jewelry, any of the couture handbags or gallery wrap canvases or any other specialty items except for Greeting cards  until after the rush of the holiday season is over. I also cannot guarantee that anything other then your PRINT order will be delivered prior to Christmas. Those who book their sessions for the 15th and the 22nd will receive their Christmas card order approx. 2 weeks after they place their order. And to ensure that all proofs are presented to you in a timely manner I will be booking only 3 portrait sessions on the day of the 29th. On Nov. 15th and Nov. 22nd I will be excepting a maximum of 6 bookings per day. In doing this I will be able to ensure that your proofs are presented to you in a timely manner, along with your print order. The deadline to place your print order will be December 10th if you wish to receive your order prior to Christmas. The deadline to place your Christmas Card order will be December 3rd since I will have to spend some time putting together the design of the cards and get your approval of the design prior to placing the order.     

4) All sessions will be conducted in the studio. Absolutely NO on location sessions will be booked after Nov. 14th. If you wish to have your Christmas portraits shot on location then please contact me ASAP to schedule your session PRIOR to Nov. 15th If you wish to have a Christmas portrait session prior to these dates you will need to schedule a standard portrait session at  standard rates. If you wish to book a standard portrait session then please call or email me atleast 2 weeks prior to when you wish to have your session.

Please understand that the time it takes to process proofs, place order, receive orders and schedule conflicts are the reasons that after the 29th of November I will no longer be taking any Christmas portrait sessions.

Please come back here in the following days to check for updates in a new post as I will be adding Christmas collection details and the Christmas special pricing. 

Have a happy and safe holiday season and I look forward working with you and being a key role in forever capturing this special time of year for you and your family.