Chelsey+Eric // Pittsburgh Wedding

Welcome to Part Two of our three part series of weddings where it rained every weekend in a row. We thought we might be able to escape the wrath of Hurricane Joaquin which was going to dump even more water onto North Carolina (where it had already been raining for a solid week) by fleeing to our northern homeland of Pennsylvania. We had a wedding the previous weekend that let us a bit damp, and we were hoping for dryer land in Pittsburgh. But alas! Joaquin outsmarted us and ended up hanging around there too, and our forecast was not looking good (a quite literal 100% chance of rain for several hours). And rain it did, hard, for quite a long time. This left Geoff and I pretty nervous because we had a 22 person wedding party and nowhere dry to put them.

But! Probably because we had literally no other options except putting 22 people under 22 umbrellas and hoping for the best, and because Mother Nature felt a bit badly for us, it miraculously cleared up about 10 minutes before photos started and our sanity was spared. And I’d like to thank Chelsey and Eric for being ridiculously good sports about the whole thing, and I’d also like to publicly give high praise and all the hugs to the best, most-listening, wonderful, controlled and well-behaved group of 20 wedding party members ever. It probably helped that you couldn’t drink for an early Catholic mass wedding, but we feel strongly that you had more self control than most groups of partying friends, and made what could’ve been very difficult very easy for us. We love you, 20 friends of Chelsey and Eric. Let it be known.

So here’s to our wonderful new wedding party friends, and to our “old” but trusted and lovely clients, Chelsey and Eric. Thank you for making things so easy on us.  And sorry again about making Chelsey wear the honey Burt’s Bees lip balm, Eric.

  • Date: October 3, 2015
  • Ceremony Venue: St. Vincent College // Pittsburgh, PA
  • Reception Venue: Hilton Garden Inn // Pittsburgh, PA
  • First Dance Song: “Then” – Brad Paisley
  • Chelsey’s Occupation: Marketing Manager
  • Eric’s Occupation: Middle School Math Teacher + Athletic Director
  • How You Met: While attending St. Vincent College.
  • Interesting Fact: As if he wasn’t nervous enough, Eric actually ripped the crotch of his khakis during the proposal.
  • Honeymoon: Caribbean over Thanksgiving
  • Vendor Credits: Officiant – Father Tom Curry | DJ – DJ Yelenix | Florist – Taunia’s Flowers by Design | Cake – Signature Desserts | Caterer – Hilton Garden Inn | Hair – Lori Dedola | Makeup – Mackenzie McDowell | Coordinator – Alex Jordan of Hilton Garden Inn | Linens: Party Reflections

Erin+Tim // Wedding at Penn House

Erin and Tim are two pretty fantastic people who like all the things that are prerequisites to acquiring Geoff’s forever love: namely Star Wars, Back to the Future, and Indiana Jones. They had obscure nerdy references to things I didn’t understand in their vows but that I caught Geoff chuckling at, their cake had a Star Wars quote on it, and they registered for a giant Darth Vader head toaster (which they received, by the way). It sounds like it wouldn’t be hard to acquire Geoff’s forever love based on the above criteria but I promise you it’s more difficult than it sounds (I’m still working on it by finding myself standing in line at 12am at Toys R Us when new action figures come out). He was deeply impressed by Erin and Tim, and I was too from the few references that I actually caught and understood, but also because even without said references they’re still super nice and funny and clever people. It rained. It rained all day (a pattern that was to repeat itself for the next two weddings we had as well), but thankfully they got married in a super awesome old house and were good sports about the whole thing. So here they are, folks… may the force be with them.

  • Date: September 26, 2015
  • Ceremony + Reception Venue: The Penn House // Reidsville, NC
  • First Dance Song: “Into the Mystic” – Van Morrison
  • Erin’s Occupation: Vet tech
  • Tim’s Occupation: Military
  • How You Met: Online when Erin started a discussion about a zombie apocalpyse
  • Interesting Fact: We are planning to hike the entire Appalachian Trail!
  • Honeymoon: A cabin in the mountains in Tennessee
  • Vendor Credits: Officiant –Charlie Manherz (friend) | DJ – Jason Barnes of K2 Productions | Cake – Family friend | Caterer – Fresh.Local.Good Food Group | Hair/Makeup – Ashley Watts Makeup Artistry | Coordinator – Saundra Greear (friend of bride)

Kerry+Alex // Engagement Session.

Meet Bebop. Bebop is a cat who lives in a skyscraper in downtown Raleigh with his owners, Kerry and Alex. Bebop enjoys looking out the window at the little cars, watching the hawks who live in the Wachovia building, chasing his treats across the floor, and staring intently at his parents while they cook dinner from a bar stool at the counter. Kerry and Alex were the main focal point of this engagement session, I think, but we temporarily forgot this when we met Bebop and Kerry and Alex subsequently took a back seat for a while so we could make a new best friend. We’re afraid to post the following pictures because then Bebop might see them and realize that he wasn’t 100% the star of the show and be upset with us, so Kerry and Alex, please try to stop him from looking at them after the first couple of photos. We wouldn’t want to hurt his feelings.