Rant/advice- professional photos

I’m 28 weeks with our first baby, due in June. I really want maternity and newborn photos and my husband is just being a huge butt about it all. He has a nice camera that he bought for fly-fishing and thinks we can use that for newborn photos 🙄 He wouldn’t do engagement photos before the wedding either so I really want some pictures of us from this “season of life.” I want the maternity/newborn photos to have both of us in them too. He’s literally only used this camera on the stream and says we can get a tripod. I don’t want to be messing with camera settings and a tripod when I’m a week postpartum, probably hormonal, sore, and tired af. He feels like it’s too much/a waste of money, and I know we’ll have a lot more expenses with baby, but we have good jobs. And the lady who did our wedding photos can do a mini maternity and newborn for $480 or full maternity and newborn for $580 and feel like that’s so cheap for photos. It feels very important to me and I don’t know why/how to get him on board. He also says we can do maternity photos and we’ll “think about newborn” but for some reason I feel like newborn is more important than maternity. I just really want nice photos to remember this time. Am I being dramatic, is it really not worth it? Help!! :(

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don’t listen to your partner about it! if this is something you wanna do, then do it. I wish i did newborn photos my baby boy grew up so fast and i wish i had professional photos to remember him that little

I agree with @Grace, 100% do it if it's really important to you. Worst case I say do it without him if he won't accept how important it is to you, at least then you will have some gorgeous pics to look back on, it won't be exactly what you want if he isn't in them but I do think it'd be better than missing out on doing them altogether

Do it! Also that's an amazing deal for maternity + newborn. I will never utter out loud how much I spent. 🤐

Thank you! I also thought it was so cheap considering what it can cost… and I agree I can just tell my husband he doesn’t have to be in them and it’ll just be me and babe, which I think he’ll regret or hopefully realize he should be in the pics too. The “problem” is that we share our finances, we have one bank account so we don’t make big purchases without agreeing first. We view all money as “our” money and I don’t think it would be right to just say “I’m doing this” because I’d be upset if he did that and used that much money for something I wasn’t okay with. How do I get him to agree we should get the photos?

I would just tell my husband that it’s really important to me. You can consider it a happy Mother’s Day gift that the baby wants to get me. 😂😂

I will say pictures do get quite expensive, but if you have the funds do it. I spent $350 for digital photos with a copy and I am happy I did it. I now have mixtales on my wall of my baby girl. I would also say use his camera for other photos like 1st bday ect. If he has a good camera, might as well get a tripod, a backdrop from Amazon and ring light, and pow you have amazing photos.

Book it, and he can just deal with it 😂. My partner was a complete butt when I suggested newborn photos 'exoensive, blah blah bla', but he now looks at the photos with a little misty look in his eye ✌️🤷