Our Ten Year Anniversary! Hiland Park Country Club, Ten Years Later
10 Years.
Our DIY photoshoot at Hiland Park Country Club was chaotic, and also perfectly represented what the last ten years have looked like for us. I wouldn’t have had it any other way. Instead of a cake, just like our actual wedding, we went with donuts from Hicks Orchard, and we got them again for this year. It was perfect.
I emailed Hiland to request permission to come and take photos, and explained that we were married there ten years ago, and were hoping to be in the very spot where we were married at the exact minute. (It was 4:44pm on October 16th, 2015.) They were incredibly gracious and said yes!
When we arrived, it looked the same and also so different. I remember everything about that day, and how I felt walking outside to take photos. Our original photographer, Laura Harris, found the perfect tree, and I was just hoping it was still there.
I gasped when I saw that it was.
So much changes in ten years, and also nothing. When you marry someone, I truly believe that you don’t really know how you’ll both age and what kind of parents and partners you’ll become. We got lucky. Through my postpartum depression and anxiety, toddlerhood, starting school, and everything in between, Karl stepped up and became the partner I didn’t know I needed.
Then, when I started this business, he did the same. Encouraged me through those early days when I wasn’t sure how we’d do it. He told me that he always knew I could do it, I just needed to believe in myself.
We found ourselves at Hiland at 4:44pm yesterday, during what turned out to be a hilariously chaotic DIY tripod photoshoot (I should have just taken my own advice and hired a photographer!) And as I watched the boys run around, high on sugar, grass stains on their new suits, I looked at Karl and realized we had gotten everything we’d dreamed of all those years ago. With an extra shot of chaos that I didn’t know I ordered, but if Starbucks usually gets it right, maybe so did we.
10/16/25 - Ten Years Later
(We did these on a tripod with the interval timer on the Canon R6 with 85mm 1.2 lens. Chaotic but we did it!)
10/16/15 - Our Wedding Day!
(Photos by: Laura Harris Photography, an absolute artist and ninja. I can’t recommend her enough!)
