Recreating Some Photos

This month marks ten years since Ryan's mom took our engagement photos. She took the first round of them just days after our engagement. The leaves were peaking in color, and we spent a chilly but STUNNING sunny evening at Matter Park in Marion, taking dozens of photos. I'm pretty sure we kept clicking away until it was just too cold and dark to keep going. About a week later, we met at Allen and Nita's beautiful cabin in the woods for a second round of photos. 

For us, these engagement photo shoots began an annual tradition of taking pictures in the fall. We've done it every single year, and I have loved every shoot. I don't think we've ever used the same location twice, and we've had almost as many photographers as years of marriage. 

This year, for our photo shoot, I wanted to include a small handful of photos from that original shoot, recreated to mark our tenth anniversary of being engaged (and married). 

You know how dearly I love a recreated photo. I will do it any chance I get. Ryan and our photographer were SO kind to put up with my desire to make this happen. (Our photographer even redid the editing of one of Nita's original photos to make the recreated version match completely. I love it so much!) 

If you've been reading around here for a while, you also know that we recreate ten of our wedding photos every year on our anniversary. That whole tradition happened somewhat by accident. (Certainly not with the level of planning and preparation I put into most of our traditions.) I am so glad we have done that every year. I can't wait to put together this year's wedding-photo-recreation collage. But in the meantime, here are the photos we recreated this fall from our engagement shoot. These make my memory-making heart so very happy! 

Photo credit on the originals: Nita Echelbarger
Photo credit for this year: Andrew Scheele Photography