Four Years

Four years ago today I married my best friend...I love you, Christopher! oxoxo

My playlist today features songs from our wedding reception--enjoy and have a fantastic weekend, readers!

Wedding + Waterfall = Weekend

Our weekend was a wedding in North Bend, WA {CONGRATS, Tim and Bree--we love you!}. Enjoying comfort food in a country pub {Beef. Stroganoff. Oh, yeah.} Driving many miles on highways and byways.



Standing in the mist curtain of a monster waterfall in a land of ultimate GREEN. Spying on wild peregrine falcons in a nest.



Exploring a railroad museum {photos coming soon}.



Discovering a new trove of antique malls {Kalama, WA--who knew?}. Moving into our space at the Antique Alley here in PDX. Whew! It's been full and wonderful.

Inspiration: Wedding

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Good Things: Happy Anniversary to Us!

One week and one day ago marked the second year of our marriage. Happy Anniversary to us!

Our story is simple. We met in 2000 at work. Chris was working for a legal services company, and I was hired to work in another department in the same office. We became friends at work and after awhile both thought about becoming more but at that time it wasn't meant to be. Two years later, we had both moved on in our lives and had new jobs, we connected again as friends and started spending most of our free time together. A year later we were officially a couple, two more years and we got engaged, then we married on 12.10.06. Phew!

Weddings are always a happy time; ours was no exception. The photos in this post offer you a glimpse of the festivities of our day.

We had a short list of priorities: #1 - Superb Photography, #2 - Memorable Music, #3 - Delish Cake, #4 - Great Locale. Note that my dress was not on the list. I love my dress (what bride doesn't?) but I knew I didn't need to fork over a fortune to look and feel divine!

I am thankful that we both married in the middle of our lives (I at 37, he at 42), and that we were friends for plenty of time before we were anything more. We're a classic case of opposites attract. If we were a movie, we'd be filed under "screwball comedy".

Sometimes other people know you a bit better than you know yourself. Our friend, Aaron, summed it up early in our acquaintance by stating, "With you two it's not so much a matter of IF, but more a matter of WHEN".

We are happy that our WHEN is NOW.

P.S. If you have a Facebook account you can view more of our wedding photos on my page. Click Photos, then C&T-The Wedding Album. Go ahead, add me as your friend and I will return the favor.

all photos in this post copyright Nicole Wickens Photography 2006. Visit her studio blog to see more of her work...you'll be glad you did!