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CommentsDeck the Hollands
From shopping to smiling, the Holland family played the part of models for their 417 Magazine photo shoot. The best part? The family’s fun day benefitted Big Brothers Big Sisters.
Jason and Robyn Holland first heard about Taste of the Ozarks, a charity auction that raises money for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Ozarks, from a friend. “We were looking at the sheet of items that would be auctioned off, and when we saw the 417 photo shoot, we thought it sounded like fun,” Robyn says. The couple went, bid on the photo shoot and won—but not without a bit of a war.
The bidding on a family fashion shoot to be featured in the pages of this magazine started at $500, which was shortly followed by another bid. After a few offers back and forth, the price tag was slowly but surely creeping higher. Robyn told Jason that they should try for it one more time. One bid and $1,100 later, the shoot was theirs.
Family portraits are much appreciated after the pictures are taken, but the scheduling process and photo shoot is usually dreaded. It’s hard to find enough spare time in everyone’s schedules to make it work, and picking out each family member’s most flattering outfit is most often more work than pleasure. But the process was all smiles for the Hollands. After winning the photo shoot during it’s run at the auction, the couple had much assistance making their latest family portraits. They had the help of Dillard’s personal shopper Beth Hopkins, scheduling coordinated by 417 Magazine staff members and the creative eye of photographer Edward Biamonte.
The first task for the photo shoot was choosing the family’s attire. The family met 417 Magazine Art Director Cassie Darst and Style Coordinator Nicole Fuller at Dillard’s and had Hopkins assist them in picking out the clothes. Robyn says this process was definitely one of her favorite things about the photo shoot. “They were so much fun,” Robyn says. “They got Jason to wear things I would have never been able to get him to wear.” Robyn says her husband, who is usually itching to get out of stores, also had fun at the clothes fittings, which were approximately three hours long for the couple and two more hours for their daughters, 8-year-old Kaitlyn and 6-year-old Kiele. Bodhi Salon in Springfield did the family’s hair and make up, and the photos were taken in their home. Robyn says the only challenging part of the whole process was posing for the photos. “We’re not models, so we had a hard time with that,” Robyn says.
