I can hardly believe it’s going to be 10 years since Joe and I got married, and as I’m preparing for our anniversary celebration, I’m thinking we should book a 10-Year Photoshoot with our professional photographer! We have gorgeous photos from our wedding day, and we have more than a few framed in our home…and as I’m looking at tons of Pinterest engagement portrait photos, I’m thinking, “We should definitely have that experience!” The beautiful location, the setting sun, the way professional photographers capture the light and snap those priceless moments out of regular things like a kiss or laughing together. There’s true artistry in professional photographers’ work, and couples who get engagement portraits love those chic and stylish photos as much as their own wedding day photos.

Many pro photographers offer 1 year anniversary photo sessions as part of their package, which is brilliant. That first year of marriage is blissfully romantic and exciting, with lots of firsts and new beginnings. A 1-year photoshoot is free of wedding nerves, and turns into a pretty splendid day! So imagine the stress-free fun of a 5- or 10-year married photo shoot!

After 5 or 10 years, you’ve been through some stuff. Your new house had some pipes break under your entire first floor (that happened to us,) illness might have happened (I had radiation for an early stage breast cancer,) parents may have passed away (I miss my Mom and Dad!) And great stuff happens, too, like hearing the garage door open and getting as excited as a puppy that your husband is home, spending holidays with family and watching your spouse grow close to your cousins, milestone birthdays call for parties, vacations get romantic, adventures abound, babies may arrive, and there are lots of flowers and new Louboutins (thanks, honey!) Ten years should be celebrated!

So let’s make the Ten-Year Photoshoot a Thing, so that you can style a whole new, dreamy photoshoot, dress up, and capture that gorgeous look of love that’s grown only stronger over the years, through everything, the good, the bad, the richer, the poorer, the sickness, the health, the forsaking all others, the new, the old, the borrowed…

We’ve got the photographer in mind, and a 10 Year Photoshoot is definitely on the horizon, along with many, many more years of married bliss.