Last week our anniversary session with Cassie Rosch was featured on Green Wedding Shoes and in the craziness of our lives, I totally missed sharing the beautiful feature. I talked about the real reason why we are photographed each year on my blog, but I also shared a bit of the behind the scenes with Jen from GWS! These last few weeks have really showed us the strength of our marriage and has challenged us in ways we didn’t know existed. Today, as we head to the hospital, I ask that you pray over our peace, our marriage, and our time transitioning back into the mindset of two (and the two pups, of course.)
“The truth is we cherish each year of photos because things have changed. We went from our first apartment together to a home, we adopted two unruly rescue pups, the cornfield behind our home became a new school, we moved again and we had fallen more in love with one another (cheesy, I know.) Marriage deserves to be celebrated. I see so many of my brides get married, invest in photography, and then let years pass before they are in front of a camera again. They forget that they are growing, changing, evolving, and that even if they aren’t in their white dress, their marriage is just as (if not more) important as the day they wed.
Our marriage isn’t perfect. I don’t share these images in the hopes that you think we float around in floral rowboats everyday or so you will comment #goals, I post them because the world needs to remember how sacred and special marriage is. The celebrating shouldn’t stop after the wedding, the focus of preserving moments shouldn’t end, the priority of documenting your lives shouldnt change. Each and every year we do one shoot together, just one. We rarely take selfies, we don’t have a photographer follow us around on our lives, and when we go out, I always forget to take a picture. This one session a year proves that marriage is worth celebrating (each and every tiny milestone and victory.) I don’t do it to put us on blast, so much of our lives and marriage is sacred and private, I just truly believe the worlds needs a postitive image of marriage after the wedding day. The stage you are in at this very moment is just as meaningful as the one when you wore that pretty white dress!”
Happy Anniversary, Jenna.