Probably a pretty long vacation at that, because we have 16 sororities here, all about the same size. But they (Vantine Photography) just do the composites; local photographers do socials and other events. The last couple of years we've taken composite pictures not long after starting fall semester and it's taken until almost the next summer to get our composites back.

Anyway, back on topic, I don't know where our largest chapter is, but I'd be willing to be that we're one of the larger ones.

A lot of companies won't consider our chapters because they aren't large enough. I think fraternal composites has done a few, but so many chapters were fed up wth their service that we've found other ones. My chapter's most recent one turned out FANTASTIC. They were taken in the backyard of our house, and we all look very pretty. It's funny because in half of those pictures, my big is crouched down behind the person holding one of her concert black dresses around us as a drape!!! hehehe.

Wait, I'm confused, I thought you were a local...

So what you are saying, they do not want money becaues of the size?:(

What Asses!:mad:

When did size matter?

Yep, we are. We still get composites done.

Well, if you really think about it, paying a photographer for his time and driving and the processing and printing costs for a chapter with only 17 girls isn't really cost effective for most companies.

Really? Maybe it's because all of the sororities on my campus always range in the 20's-30's, but we've never had problems with getting companies to do composites for us. They're good about putting our crest on the composites too.

Awesome. As a working photographer...it does get expensive doing group portraits. I've been toying with the idea of doing black and whites for us...might be fun/interesting. The guy we got to do this years gave us a super good price and he did awesome work. He was a friend of one of our older sisters, but we all looked beautiful and we got it this summer, whereas our 2003 composite is still MIA I believe.

I think that Theta Sigma at UCF might be our largest chapter. I've heard they have 175ish. Not sure about that though.

Upsilon is one of the smaller chapters at OU, around 130ish....

And quota has been around 80-90 since 2001.... :(

Hee, hee - be careful! They're armed (with Louis Vuitton!) and dangerous!

This one's a Chi Omega army...
http://www.magnoliacomposites.com/Ph.../ChiO-3-Md.jpg

I found the picture on Magnoliacomposites.com. I'm really curious as to what chapter this is...

Looking at the composite, I think it's generic. Where the University name is, it simply says "University." And when you put the picture in a photo viewer and enlarge it, the members look a little older than collegians. It may be just for advertisement, that would be my best guess.

On the website, their description for the composite says that that Chi O chapter is the largest one on the campus, so I doubt it's a generic one.

As an advisor, I checked out what seemed to be hundreds of composite sites. NONE of them have the name of the college or university, and few even have legible names on the ladies involved. It's more of a safety precaution than anything.

I found the Auburn one on the ADPI Auburn site.

Shhh, Honey.....we're the country's secret weapon!!! No one will see us in our azure blue catsuits and our Louis Vuitton handbags! :D