It used to be common to take advantage of wedding banquets to take family photographs, once before and once afterwards, at the family home in front of the ancestral shrine with the whole clan encircling the couple.
走出攝影棚的全家福早期台灣社會在喜宴前後，難得齊聚一堂的家族成員都會簇擁著新人，在自家祖厝三合院、供奉祖先牌位的廳堂前拍張全家福，象徵家族的凝聚與傳承。