“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.” We jokingly use “let me count the ways” all the time and often it’s not about love. I did it the other day, in fact in conversation with a pal. But we rarely think of Robert and Elizabeth Browning (unless you’re an English grad student) and their 19th c. elopement, love affair and poetry.
We’re not counting “the ways” necessarily this month, but we are counting the couples we’ve photographed who are celebrating September anniversaries – and adding some wisdom and observations for others who may or may not know best.

Ruth & John 4 years September 3rd

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave. – Martin Luther

Crystal & Adam 7 years September 5th

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. – Winston Churchill

Jessica & Chris 5 years September 10th

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape. – Gerald Brenan

Lindsey & Seth 8 years September 13th

To keep your marriage brimming with love, whenever you’re wrong, admit it; whenever you’re right, shut up. – Ogden Nash

Hope & Taylor 3 years September 14th

When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. – Joseph Campbell

Maren & Gordon 4 years September 15th

There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. – Homer

Kristen & Jason 7 years September 19th

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short. – Andre Maurois

Teresa & Rob 4 years September 22nd

Any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate. – W.H. Auden

Tameka & Willie 6 years September 25th

I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. – Rita Rudner

Rebekah & Joshua 1 year September 26th

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. – Sydney Smith

Angela & Andrew 2 years September 27th

Marriage should be a duet – when one sings, the other claps. – Joe Murray

Helen & Woo 7 years September 27th

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. – Mignon McLaughlin

Tara & John 10 years September 30th

Marriages, like careers, need constant nurturing… the secret of having it all is loving it all. – Joyce Brothers

Ashley & Kevin 5 years September 30th

The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It’s a choice you make – not just on your wedding day, but over and over again. – Barbara de Angelis

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.