COUPLES | gloss mountains + love

Love.  Love refines us and stretches us.  Love is hard and beautiful.  Love knocks us around and humbles us.  I remember when I first fell in love… poetry, chocolate, letters.   I rifled through those old, yellowed notes on Valentine’s Day this year, feeling sentimental.   I was flooded with remembrance.  It all seems so rosy from 20 years away.

20 years of holding hands, road trips, meal planning, bed making, life building.   Lately I’ve looked through honest eyes and seen hardship and struggle and growth and redemption, and I say in wonder, “we’ve made it this far”.   I’m so proud we never gave up, never walked away, never stopped grace and forgiveness.

It takes so many people to pull of a shoot like this. I’d like to thank Angela Williams of Hazel and Haze Photography for the invitation to participate. More thanks go to CJF Photography, Cakes by Diane, Emilie Curry of ECB Styling, Enid Floral, Jo and June, Prairie Letter Shop, Verde Studio, and for the glorious feature on Artfully Wed.