Happy Anniversary baby!

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Andrea & Matt, Santa Barbara, May 25th 2003, Photo by Rikka Zimmerman

It’s our 2nd wedding anniversary today.

I am the luckiest girl around.

“He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.”
Brian Andreas

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27 Comments

  1. hannah

    Congratulations! That is a lovely photograph – and the quote is great. I’m 20 and sometimes I worry about finding the right guy, finding the ‘One’, especially growing up in a culture of beautiful people and watching romantic comedies… It always makes me think I have to go better, find perfection in male form …
    But that quote seems to put it in persepctive. It’s simple – if you’re happy together…
    🙂 Have a great day!

  2. hannah

    Congratulations! That is a lovely photograph – and the quote is great. I’m 20 and sometimes I worry about finding the right guy, finding the ‘One’, especially growing up in a culture of beautiful people and watching romantic comedies… It always makes me think I have to go better, find perfection in male form …
    But that quote seems to put it in persepctive. It’s simple – if you’re happy together…
    🙂 Have a great day!

  3. Beastmomma

    yeah– I am glad that you know you are lucky. Happy Anniversary! I hope that today is a reminder that the best is both yet to come and already happening!

  4. stef

    Happy Anniversary!!!!

  5. Jen Downer

    Happy Anniversary Day to you!
    You look so extrodinarily happy in this photo.
    Love is grand! I can only imagine that your husband is as wonderful as mine! :o)
    You guys are so beautiful.
    fondly,
    jen

  6. bluepoppy

    Happiest wedding anniversary! What a gorgeous photo . .. hope the celebration was great.

  7. Shelly

    Beautiful Happy Days!

  8. Darcie

    What a beautiful photo. Happy 2nd anniversary! Wishing you many more.

  9. Daviid Kapp

    That really is a beautiful photo. You two look great together. Congrats on your anniversary.
    Dave

  10. Laura

    Happy anniversary! 🙂

  11. heather

    How utterly ironic. My husband and I were married one day before you (magical wedding in Temecula, just the two of us!) AND have that exact StoryPeople plaque in our Tucson house.
    Congratulations to two beautiful people!

  12. jenn

    andrea,
    rikka took such beautiful photographs. you can see the love coming off of you.
    happy anniversary to you and matt. i hope your day is special and sweet.
    in love brian andreas. i gave my partner connie the pirate picture for our second wedding anniversary in October. he has the amazing gift of putting things into words that are sometimes too hard or you can’t find the words.
    love to you and matt today.
    jenn

  13. Marilyn

    Happy Anniversary! Just think, you’ll always have those gorgeous photos to remember that day…and so many more gorgeous photos (that you’ve taken) to remember subsequent everyday experiences that have, hopefully, blessed your life with as much joy as you seem to be feeling in that wedding photo. Blessings to you both. May this 3rd year bring you some of your heart’s wildest dreams…

  14. Carrie

    Happy anniversary! 🙂

  15. Lauren

    oh man… i LOVE brian andreas- I have one of his books, and i read it ALL the time.
    On another note- HAPPY ANNIVERSARY! May there be many more to come! You two make a beautiful couple!

  16. Amy Jensen

    Andrea:
    What a great and beautiful photo. Happy Anniversary and happy celebrating…
    Amy J

  17. Michael

    Congrats to you and your groom. 🙂 A lovely couple and wonderful quote. My own bride and I just marked our 16th anniversary at the start of the month.
    Peace, joy and happiness.

  18. Lora

    Happy anniversary!
    Beautiful hoto of the two of you.

  19. eva

    Happy anniversary 🙂

  20. Pamela

    Andrea, happy anniversary! I love the joy beaming from your wedding photograph, and how you link the lovely quote to the sentiment you hold for your husband. When I first fell for my husband a friend of mine, weathered and street-wise, crinkled up into a smile as my husband and I were silly-eyed for each other, and mused, “ain’t love grand?” Yup, it is.
    To the poster who was married in Temecula, I was married there nearly 10 years ago, and lived there for several years as well!

  21. Leonie

    How beautiful! Congratulations! 😀
    Your bday is one day before mine, and your anniversary is 5 days after mine 😀 [we just celebrated our four year from our first date anniversary]
    all ya need is love…

  22. *AGK*

    Happy Anniversary!!!

  23. wn

    GREAT wedding picture….the happiness almost shoots out of my screen!
    Congratulations to the both of you!
    We are about 10 weeks away from letting one another “stay for a very long time”….LOVE to see happy couples right now because it helps sooth the stress!

  24. Heidi

    Congrats!! I just celebrated my 1’st wedding anniversary. The best year of my life!! =)
    *heidi*

  25. Anja

    Happy anniversary!
    Gorgeous photo, what a great idea to do black&white. You’re both beautiful!

  26. jill

    Your beauty shines through…
    Happy Anniversary (to my anniversary twin!) Give a Woot Woot for the “five two-five” gals!

  27. Karen

    Happy anniversary, beautiful people.

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