Happy Friday loves! I’m so excited to share our anniversary shoot photos with you today. It was just the best getting to be with my dream team again – Andrea from Blue Lace Photography and Melanie from Beauty by Melanie P. They were both part of our wedding day so it was so great seeing them again <3 I highly highly recommend both if you are looking for a photographer or makeup artist for your big day!!
And if you’re new around the blog – here are some other blogposts I’ve written over the years about our love and the wedding 🙂
Looking back on 5 years of love
I’m sure by now you know that Daniel is my entire world. We’ll have been together for 8 years this September and truly they have been the best years of my life. Our lives are so deeply intertwined and I wouldn’t have it any other way. I can’t help but get emotional when I really stop and think about us and the life we have built together. I rarely cry but if you watch our wedding video, you’ll see that I bawled like a baby the ENTIRE time during my vows lol (embarrassing). It’s just that.. I really think if you had known me before I met Daniel you wouldn’t even recognize me. His love has changed my life. His love really saved me. When I met him, I had just gone through some really tough times in my life but I knew from the moment we met that he would change everything. His love has made me the very best version of myself because he sees me for everything I am and everything I’m not and he still loves me.
Every relationship is different and of course we all have our ups and downs but I know we were made for each other. There’s just something that about us that fits perfectly together. We may have little fights every once in a blue moon, but we never go to bed mad at each other. We try not to raise our voices at each other and we always talk everything through. We never hold grudges or keep score and we are always always always on the same team.
One thing I think we really loved learning this year was our love languages. If you haven’t heard of the book about the five love languages, this blog post is an easy read about them. For Daniel, it’s quality time and physical touch. For me, well.. I need lots of love and attention lol so I would say it’s a combination of all of them. He would agree 😉 But above everything, I would say the biggest takeaway from this first year of marriage is that you have to continue to choose each other every day – you have to still put in the efforts (big and small) to make sure that the person you love more than anything in this world knows that each and every day. Whether that means calling each other on the way to work to let them know you miss them or seeing something that reminds you of them and getting them that little gift or planning fun date nights for you two or even just something as simple as cuddling and hugging at the end of a long day apart while eating takeout in bed. Marriage isn’t the end cap to your relationship.. t’s the beginning to the rest of your life together ♥
Just know that no matter how perfect a relationship can look from the outside, no relationship comes without putting in the continuous effort to love one another. It may seem like a lot, but it is always worth it in the end.
Before ending this post and sharing photos, I wanted to say THANK YOU for all of the love and support you give our relationship and our love. You all have no idea how much it means!! It’s always scary putting yourself and your personal life out into the world but having you in our corner is just the best. We seriously read every comment on the photo I posted this weekend and you are all just so freaking sweet. ♥
