Downtown Anniversary Session |Ryan and Chelsea

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Five years ago, Jeff and I photographed Ryan and Chelsea’s wedding in Chicago. Earlier this week, over delicious cocktails and dinner after photographing an anniversary session for them in downtown San Diego, we reminisced about their wedding day. Chelsea and I both vividly recalled the moment when I walked with her to her First Look – on the way she passed her flowers, hugged her dad, and then saw Ryan standing a ways off with his back turned toward her, waiting for his breathtaking bride. It was so much joy all at once – tears sprang to both of our eyes.

Ryan and Jeff remembered the photos of his groomsmen – the striking image of the guys against the white wall and then the casual portrait with their arms around each other. Ryan remembers the love and respect that he felt around him. Jeff remembers that he loved those images so much, every groomsmen portrait after that had to live up to Ryan’s photos.

We all remembered so much. We all felt so much. Chelsea said that their wedding photos still come up on her computer, and she’ll pause to watch the slideshow go by, reliving her most beautiful day. But when asked what they are most excited about in the coming year, Chelsea said that she was so grateful that they had hit their stride. Five years ago, when we were shooting their engagement session in the sunshine of La Jolla, they knew each other, but they were still so new. In the trials and fires of life since, they have grown up and grown together. They were in sync now like never before. They fit. They were comfortable in a ‘five-years-of-marriage’ comfortable.

When Ryan and Chelsea told me that they were coming out Southern California from Chicago for their five-year anniversary and asked if we would make some new portraits to commemorate this milestone, I said ‘YES. A thousand times YES.’ Not just because I love being with these two lovebirds and it had been much too long since we had last seen them, but I said ‘yes’ because it is at these junctures that it is most important to stop and to remember.

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Ryan and Chelsea: We are so honored to be a continued part of your love story, and I feel immensely blessed to have shared in such a special day in your lives. Five years of marriage is something to treasure, and we’re so excited for you both because this is when marriage truly starts getting goo-oo-ood! Ha!

Hugs,

Erin

Welcome! We’re Jeff & Erin.

It’s our job to help you slow down and experience every moment of your wedding day – because we believe that it should be savored from top to bottom.

We’re Jeff & Erin Youngren, a hubby & wifey wedding photography team that believes timeless trumps trendy, life is best done together, and tears, hugs, & high fives should never be held back.

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We’re Jeff and Erin Youngren, and we believe running a business should be life-giving (not soul-sucking). So we’re passionate about teaching other photographers to run life-giving businesses and book clients they absolutely love.  

For 15 years, we’ve photographed weddings all over the world as a hubby & wifey team, but we’ve also grown a multi-brand photography studio in San Diego, CA. 

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