Last month I celebrated my 10 year wedding anniversary. When you get married, you know the vows you say to each other mean you will be married for life. However, actually reaching 10 years in real life seemed a pretty big achievement. Nik and I had always talked about going back to Ibiza for our 10 year anniversary. Even though we had been back to the island on several occasions since we were married, we wanted to make this trip super special and do something to mark the special occasion. We had talked about renewing our vows and having a ceremony with flowers and outfits, a fancy meal afterwards but it all seemed a bit over the top. So we decided to strip it all back, keep it simple and mark our anniversary with a family photo shoot.

In my job I’m lucky enough to meet lots of different photographers and I have always been a fan of Gypsy Westwood’s work. I was lucky enough to meet her a few years ago and she has featured on the blog on a number of occasions. I knew she was the obvious choice when looking for a photographer to capture our anniversary. So we booked her!
After getting married in Ibiza 10 years ago, one of my regrets was missing the famous shot overlooking Es Vedra, so I knew that had to be our location this time.

We tied the shoot in with our family holiday, a week away to our favourite Island, this time taking Dexter with us. We had an amazing week, we hired a car which took us to all our favourite places and celebrated Nik’s birthday a...