Customed Shirts for Our Holiday Family Portrait

My husband and I are planning on getting a family portrait for Christmas so we can send them to our relatives here and in the Philippines. It's going to be our first ever family photo so I want it to be special. We've been planning to get our photo taken but I was always pregnant so we decided to put it off and wait for the baby to come. And now that we're finally complete, I think it's about time to make it happen.

Though, it's going to be a holiday portrait, I'm thinking of not using an all Christmas-themed setting. I think a background with one or two Christmas symbols would be enough because I'm already planning on getting us holiday custom t-shirts and I don't want it to look too Christmasy(?). I just want our photos to look really great, but simple.

The photo will be sent to our loved ones together with a Christmas card. We'll make sure we send them in a decent size so they can frame them if they want to. And if we ever get the whole portrait package where they include wallet sizes, too, we'll send them photos in that size as well so they can also have something they can take with them anywhere. But above all, I want to send something extra special for my Grandmother. I'll make sure she gets the biggest size and photos of just the kids (her great grandchildren) because she's been wanting to see them so badly. I know for sure that she'll love it and just thinking about how she'll react, already is making me want to cry right now. She hasn't seen any of my kids in person yet so I know she definitely will love our little Christmas present for her.