Category: Couples

Carlena+Andrew // Engagement Session in Rome, Italy

So as to not be redundant, I’m going to save our super long-winded paragraph about how we ended up photographing Carlena and Andrew’s wedding in Italy for their wedding blog post because it’s a fun story. So just fast forward to the part where we’re in Italy, and Carlena and Andrew are there, and we’re all in Rome for about two days. We decided to photograph their engagement session in Rome instead of Positano (where their wedding was) because we knew they’d look different and because when in Rome! (Don’t worry, that’s the only time I’ll use it, I promise). We ran around alleys and dodged Vespas. We got offered a lot of selfie sticks and got rained on quite a bit.  We saw the Roman Forum and got asked if we were British or New Yorkers by a couple having an internal debate about our accents. We stupidly turned down a woman handing out free french fries because we were so used to turning down the selfie sticks that we didn’t realize we made a mistake until it was too late. Rome is busy and full of people and cars and old, impressive things. And we were happy to see it with these two fine people.

Gretchen+Jason // Anniversary.

These guys. They’re like us, only they don’t have two cats. But sometimes they borrow their friend’s cat, so they’re basically us. Gretchen and Jason are two of our favorite people. We first met Gretchen doing weddings as she is a fabulous wedding planner. She owns her own business called RedBird Events (go check her website out!) and if you hire both us and Gretchen, you may come across us whispering in a corner somewhere. And it might look suspicious, but really we’re just planning our Halloween parties and comparing notes on costumes. When we finally decided to hang out together in real life, we met her husband Jason for the first time. He showed up wearing this shirt, whose image has been my go-to Facebook timeline image every November for the past several years, and so we loved him immediately.

Interesting Fact about Gretchen+Jason: “Gretchen and I have both dislocated the same knee. It’s our left one. I don’t mean this as a collective shared knee, but that we’ve both dislocated our own knees. Although, now I’m wondering what a shared knee would look like. Assuming we were actually physically joined together at marriage into something like conjoined twins, I’m wondering where we’d connect and how it would look. I’ll ponder this a bit more today.”

Now we are lifer friends and we enjoy their company. Jason does a mean Morrissey impression during RockBand, and Gretchen sings adorable songs that she writes about Star Wars, so they’re kind of my favorite band when you put them both together. Here are some options for their future album cover: