Here's what Joey had to say:
Meeting our wonderful wedding photographers for an anniversary shoot was a pleasure and we both felt very excited to be photographic subjects for them again. I also particularly liked the idea of having multiple shoots over a period of significant change, so engagement- wedding-anniversary; and it is lovely to have photos to capture and document the gigantic, beautiful and messy transition of getting married and moving to the other side of the world.
To have someone pay such attention to your love story and adventure and to be 'seen' in this way and turned into art, as only Penny and Cameron can do as well as they do, is an extraordinary thing. The value of having significant parts of your adventure artistically and tenderly documented is huge and I am so grateful to have tangible evidence of how far we've come, even in the first year of marriage. It will help us to never forget the journey we took to wherever we are going next...
Before meeting up, we asked Joey and Jon to write each other a love letter and choose a song that is meaningful to them that we would ask them to share with each other at some point during the shoot. Joey chose Tonight Will Be Fine by Leonard Cohen (but sung by Teddy Thompson) because it was a song on the soundtrack they fell in love to, and Jon chose Passenger by Lisa Hannigan who they had recently seen at an 'incredible, romantic and life-giving gig'.
What I absolutely adored though, was this snippet from Joey's love letter to Jon:
Loving you, knowing you and being your official new 'next of kin' never fails to make me smile. I love that I know all your stories, the good ones and the bad. I know the things you dream about at night and can guess the food you want in the evening. I love that sometimes we both spontaneously sing the same line of a song at the exact same time. This shows me that even though we have been strangers in different lands for the majority of our lives - we were made 'like puzzle pieces from the clay' (iron and wine - such great heights)
Sigh. I remember saying, after meeting Joey and Jon at their pre-wedding shoot, that I couldn't believe these two people were as gorgeous inside as they are on the outside. A year later, nothings changed, except for maybe the fact that they are even more in love with each other.
Joey and Jon, it is such a joy and privilege to have met you both - and I hope that our paths continue to cross again.
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