Allie and Michael – Anniversary Pictures – Mississippi Street, Portland, Oregon

I met Allie and Michael on Mississippi Street a few weekends ago to take some pictures to celebrate their second wedding anniversary. They have made it a tradition to get their pictures taken once a year near their anniversary, which is a very sweet way to mark the passing of another happy year of marriage.

They brought along their little dog Teddy (who was held by Allie’s mom when he wasn’t in a photo), and we just wandered around the shops and alleyways on Mississippi taking pictures and laughing and generally having a pretty nice little Sunday morning. We stopped in to one of the public gardens for a couple shots, used a cool wooden building and another really beautiful brick wall as backdrops, and even found some shade under a nearby tree for a few of the later shots.

It was really nice to get to stroll around such a cool street before it really started to get busy with people, and Allie and Michael are so easygoing and playful that it made getting great looking shots of them laughing and interacting with each other very easy. I hope I get to continue this tradition with them next year!