Category: Couples

Engaged in Pittsburgh: Ashley+Dave

Ashley and Dave both went to the same high school as me, but were four years ahead in my sister’s grade. My sister, who has been graduated from high school for some time (sorry, Laura) coincidentally boarded a plane to LA on a trip to New Zealand a few years ago and happened to sit next to Ashley on the flight from Pittsburgh to LA in another weird, Twilight-Zoney type of thing that happens to me way too much. So when Ashley went on the hunt for a wedding photographer via Facebook, my sister kindly referred me. :)

Ashley and Dave are getting married at Heinz Chapel and PNC Park next year! Geoff is ridiculously excited to shoot at PNC Park… and is convinced (in some sort of fantasy land type of way) that the Pirates will end up in the playoffs and that there will be a playoff game taking place at PNC Park during the wedding and that he’ll somehow be able to take part and witness both. Even if the playoffs don’t happen for the Pirates (and let’s face it…), we’re still both super excited to shoot the wedding for this lovely couple! For their engagement, Ashley wanted “very classy” pictures in front of the Pittsburgh skyline on Mt. Washington at the very end of the day and night, and then a few at a restaurant where her and Dave had dinner reservations. I do believe that this set of pictures is extra classy and extra skyline-y. :) Enjoy!

*P.S. I still love you, Raleigh, but nobody can top this skyline.

*P.P.S. I think I can see my dorm room from here! :P My college is the orange building w/ the flag on top of it in the lower left hand corner of the picture below. I lived in a dorm room on the 17th floor. My dad HATED move-in day. :)

 

Raleigh Engagement Photographer: Amanda+Sean

It’s rare to find a day in late November in Pittsburgh when it doesn’t rain, so I’ll take doomy overcast any day! Amanda and Sean are getting married next July up in the ‘Burgh and wanted to shoot their engagement session on the North Shore with a view of the ever-awesome skyline. What is nice about shooting in Pittsburgh (especially on the North Shore) in late November is that no one is there… as opposed to summer months when you can’t ever get a good shot because of the tons and tons of boats in the background. :)

Amanda and Sean met in high school and have been dating for many years. She is a pension analyst and Sean designs software. They are getting married at Stonebridge Farm Nursery and I am sooo excited to shoot there… it’s absolutely lovely! They rocked it out on the North Shore in the epic cloudiness in late November… so I’m looking forward to seeing them in sunshine on a farm in early July!

Raleigh Engagement Photographer: Becky+Jake

Becky and Jake originally weren’t going to do an engagement session, but I am super glad they changed their minds. :) They are a ton of fun and one of those couples that love and appreciate photography (Jake does some photo work himself!). They were all game and didn’t give me any weird looks when I requested strange things of them, and Jake, in turn, requested a few shots in the Kudzu jungle of Raleigh. Becky works at NC State doing sciencey stuff, and Jake works at IBM doing computer stuff (clearly I am not in a computer or science related field)! They’re going to be married at CAM next year, and their wedding pictures there will be stellar. You’re allowed to shoot inside CAM, which is pretty cool seeing as how we couldn’t shoot inside Artspace for our wedding. But since they’re allowed to take pictures inside there, we did a lot of their engagement photos around CAM in the warehouse district where it’s pretty industrial and funky. We were all set to do photos outside with our 30% chance of rain, which then became “30% chance of rain; rain stopping at 3pm”, which then became “70% chance of rain the entire evening” which translated to “it rained the entire time and was super dark and overcast.” It didn’t pour though, so we toughed it out! And to accompany us through the remainder of the session was Hobbit… whose breed is “crusty old Labrador” according to Becky, and who is adorable but totally not interested in me. “Hey Hobbit”s and “Pssst, Hobbit”s just made him look further away. He wore his little bandanna with pride and was the cutest crusty old Lab I’ve ever seen. :)