August sometimes gets a bad rap. It’s hot; it’s the end of summer; it’s back to school time (“AND ALL GOD’S CHILDREN YELLED: NOOOOOO!!!); it’s buckle down, “we’re done with the beach for a while” time for families and we all start slouching toward fall. But really, it’s a pretty great month. It’s transition time and it always feels to me like there’s elbow room between summer and the cooling temps and tasks that come with autumn. It’s also the month Ryan and I got married. Our marriage stands up in August and says, “yes! Another year, peeps!” In that spirit, it’s time to wish our couples who were married in August a very Happy Anniversary! You’ll notice two faces below who were mere babies when they got married in August of 2003.
We’ve loved being a part of your journeys, watching your grow, have kiddos and enter new phases of life. We raise a glass to us all.
We join this month’s anniversaries celebrating 14 years of marriage on August 2nd. Photo ©Laura Auman Photography
Lindsey & James Roberts, 8 years August 1st
Amber & Andy Shumate, 2 years August 1st
Heather & Joey Sowell, 9 years August 2nd
Melody & Pierre Banks, 3 years August 2nd
Erin & Diego Moldonado, 10 years August 3rd
Amy & Tom Davies, 4 years August 3rd
Christine & Frank Crowley, 7 years August 7th
Meghan & Josh Roberts, 2 years August 8th
Stacia & Adrian Phifer, 9 years August 10th
Mia & Lawrence Naylor, 5 years August 11th
Edith & Kirk Irish, 1 year August 13th
Micala & Tyler Rash, 2 years August 15th
Sierra & Casey Tevepaugh, 3 years August 16th
Barbara & Will Vulcano, 7 years August 21st
Heather & Jayson Parker, 8 years August 22nd
Kendall & Nathan Williams, 2 years August 22nd
Heather & Jason Rice, 6 years August 27th
Laura & Jeremy Coviello, 8 years August 29th
Whitney & Preston Parsons, 2 years August 29th
Kaitly & Denny Gappens – 4 years on May 4th
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:
Jennifer & Thomas – 5 years on May 5th
Olivia & James – 6 years on May 7th
Kathy & Phillip – 10 years on May 12th
Andrea & Mike – 6 years on May 14th
Jessica & Zach – 8 years on May 16th
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed,
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature’s changing course untrimmed:
Jessica & Chris – 3 years on May 17th
Maggie & Saeger – 4 years on May 18th
Rachel & Ryan – 6 years on May 21st
Holley & Ron – 7 years on May 22nd
Kathren & Nathan – 3 years on May 24th
Shanna & Ethan – 4 years on May 25th
Ashleigh & Philip – 5 years on May 26th
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Sonnet 18 from William Shakespeare
Candace & Bob – 8 years on May 30th
Congratulations and Happy Anniversary! We love you all and hope the year ahead till the next anniversary is adorned with the blooms of prosperity, good health, laughter, devotion and LOVE!
Elizabeth & Kyle – 1 year March 5th
Happy Anniversary to the couples who choose to get married in months of seasonal transition. We applaud your boldness, your spirit and your adventurous nature. Rain? Maybe …. but really, so what if it rains? You’ve just told the world, “I’m with him for good” or “She’s mine for the rest of my life. What’s a little precipitation or chill in the air when love is afoot?
The couple above? Check out their wedding day. They eventually saw snow in the evening and one of our favorite photos of them is standing underneath umbrellas at night.
Here’s to March and couples who wed this month. Whether you are a lion or a lamb, we salute you.
Virginia and Nuno – 8 years, March 7th
Virginia and Lane – 7 years, March 20th
Pixels is now booking engagement and bridal portraits and weddings for 2017 and 2018 and we would love to work with you if you’re in planning mode. Contact us at mail@pixelsonpaper.biz.
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs, engagements and weddings, brides, and special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.
While December weddings are not as common as, say, June weddings, they do happen and they are so much fun. There’s that extra element of celebration in the air that bleeds over from the holidays and wraps the whole event in more joy, more hope, more love. This month we are photographing several weddings and look forward to capturing that same feeling for the brides, grooms and their families and friends. In doing so, we also want to take a moment to say Happy Anniversary to the couples whose weddings we had the pleasure of shooting in years past. We love you all!
Becky & Jackson 8 years December 6th
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” – James M. Barrie
Andrea & Eric 4 years December 22nd
“A happy marriage is about 3 things: memories of togetherness, forgiveness of mistakes and a promise never to give up on each other.” -Surabhi Surendra
Shanna & Seth 3 years December 6th
“The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.” – unknown
We love family portraits whether they are set in the studio, the great outdoors, a specific location like the mountains or high country, or on our property in our outdoor portrait garden. Pixels on Paper photographs, engagements and weddings, brides, and special events and portraits of all kinds in our Wilkesboro, NC studio. We would be honored to meet with you, learn about you and your family and be a part of taking special portraits that will become, we hope, family heirlooms.