Well yes, thank you, but it’s not really the same. Plus, borrowing is weird, no?
Nah, it’s not weird. Caps and gowns are generic.
Agree…see if you can borrow a cap and gown and take some photos if possible. It doesn’t matter what you wear under the gown. If you want to do something special buy yiur mom flowefs for the photo.
I know this won’t help you but you might want to suggest to your high school to have a photographer take picture as each student gets their diploma. That is what our school does. Then about a week later we get a postcard with information on how to purchase the photo.
@renegade200 , I hope you go back and borrow the cap and gown. Stuff like this happens all the time. No need to be embarrassed!
You keep saying it’s not the same. No it’s not, but it is this time in your life a pciture would represent and the years to getting here, not 5 minutes after the ceremony. Get a cap and gown, take a picture with your mom and get over it.
For me, the story attached is always a big part of any picture. Imagine telling your grandkids about how you realized you didn’t have a pic and then you describe what you had to do in order to recreate the scene-and now 50 years later, you are so glad you did that-as you show your grandkids the pic. Would be just as cool or more so then simply saying, “oh and this is my mom and me at graduation”.
I did this with my son who refused to attend his high school and college graduation ceremonies. During the last week of high school, S borrowed a cap/gown from the school and I took a couple photos at home. 4 years later, at his college we happened to see a cap someone left on a bench on campus, along with a diploma cover and graduation program. When we realized these items had been left behind/abandoned, I asked my son to put on the cap for a second and snapped a photo.
When my D graduated college, we saw the graduates briefly before the ceremony and we took pictures of her in cap and gown; however, my H and S were still parking the car and weren’t yet there. Then, after the ceremony, in all the hubbub of having her return the gown and get to the celebratory lunch (plus having to deal with both grandfathers who had physical limitations) we never got a picture of her with her proud dad or brother. What can you do?! We got cute candids on campus the day after though.
If you feel awkward asking to borrow a cap and gown and/or staging a photo, when you call the school to ask you can put the blame on your mom in a variation of the “she’s making me do this” excuse. It’s likely that the person answering the phone either IS a mom who would be thrilled if her kid was so thoughtful or someone who HAS a mom and knows how mom guilt works. (And trust me, your mother will be delighted to “take the blame” for it.)
If your issue is that you posted in hopes that people would tell you not to bother (which is what your responses are starting to sound like), then you can just ignore what every single person here has said.
My son’s photos were horrible when he actually got his diploma. We took photos at home with him in his cap and gown and his grandmother loved it. If possible, maybe you could go to the venue and take photos there?
Make a photo of yourself with your mom and photoshop cap and gown in.
We’re homeschoolers, so we can’t get the cap and gown from our district. I ordered one online for my son, but I’ve seen them in local thrift stores and consignment shops too. If you can borrow one from the school, I’d do that because then you don’t have to worry about matching your school’s color. I’d go to the school to take the photos and I wouldn’t be embarrassed about it. It’s no different than having a wedding portrait made. They aren’t taken on the day of the event either.
It was scheduled to rain the day of my D’s college graduation so we took family photos the day before (we were staying over) in a garden by her dorm. The photos came out great and they are no less meaningful because they were not taken graduation day.
I was disappointed that our son’s high school does not do caps/gowns and neither does his college, so I’ll never have that picture. I like some of the ideas here, though. Photoshop, that’s an interesting one. 