Julianne+Ian’s Wedding in Pittsburgh, PA

Okay, get ready to follow this. Ashley and her husband Dave booked us last year for their wedding because Ashley, who went to high school with my older sister Laura, accidentally landed on a plane right next to her flying to Los Angeles and started talking about her wedding, where my sister chimed in and recommended us. Ashley, in turn, recommended us to Julie, who then e-mailed us to ask about our availability, when we all found out that her fiancé Ian used to play baseball with Geoff in high school (Geoff also went to high school with Julie but was a few years above her). Mmm, six degrees of CSP bacon. :)

They got married in a town called Oakmont outside of Pittsburgh which is a few minutes from where all of us grew up. I’ve driven past this church a hundred times but was never inside until now (I always find it interesting to get to go inside places in Pennsylvania that I never visited when I lived there but get to go there now when we live in North Carolina). Geoff saw a ton of people that he knew at the wedding or who knew his dad (who umpires locally). Geoff was not quite easily spotted due to the giant beard that was notably absent in high school. ;)

Julie and Ian are super sweet together and have a great support group of family and friends. Geoff immediately declared Ian was going to be quite easy to work with due to his constant smiling, and this was very much the case for both him and Julie, too. We had an awesome time and were excited and honored to be brought back to the ‘Burgh to shoot their wedding! Congratulations, guys!

Date: June 22, 2013

Ceremony Venue: Riverside Community Church // Oakmont, PA

Reception Venue: Pluma // Irwin, PA

First Dance Song: “A Thousand Years” – Christina Perri

Julianne’s Occupation: Human Resources – Retail Recruiter for Giant Eagle, Inc.

Ian’s Occupation: Senior Customer Specialist for Giant Eagle, Inc.

How You Met: Our mutual friends’ parents own a bar (Phillips Lounge) in Arnold. We met there and fell in love. Classy, I know! haha

Interesting Bride Fact: Interior Decorator Hobbyist

Interesting Groom Fact: Fantasy Sports Expert

Honeymoon Destination: Sandals Jamaica

Vendor Credits: Officiant – Pastor David Kennard | DJ – Jay Schimmel | Florist – Gidas Flowers | Cake – Sweet 100 Bakery & Bistro | Caterer – Pluma | Hair and Makeup – Caldwells, Joy Lager | Coordinator – Jill Johnson

Caitlyn+Joe: Engaged in the Outer Banks

Caitlyn and Joe are like the Carolyn Scott Photography unofficial fan club presidents. The best part about having fan club presidents is that sometimes they take you to the beach with them and let you stay in their beach house and feed you milkshakes from a grumpy man in the Outer Banks when you take their engagement pictures! The other best part about having fan club presidents is the psychic connections that you can develop with them… like when we played Catch Phrase and Joe said, “I have no idea who this is. She’s an older lady,” and I said, “MERYL STREEP!” and he was like, “YES!” and we won. See? It’s like that with us and Caitlyn and Joe.

Initially we were like, “What’s it going to be like staying at a beach house with these people that we kind of know but don’t really know?” and I was terrified that we’d offend them in some sort of way. And we quickly realized that while we had opposing views on music and firearms, that we all equally loved House of Cards and 24 (except Joe who needs desperately to catch up on all episodes of 24 like right now). I was still worried that we offended them in some sort of way about the music and/or firearms until their friends showed up with Cards Against Humanity and all bets were off. I realized that not only did we not offend them, but you kind of can’t offend them, so that was good. We played games for the rest of the trip, saw lots of dolphins, Carolyn got stung by a jellyfish and the friends told Geoff to pee on it (he didn’t), we caught up on some much needed sleep, and we read a lot (they still read!! like us!!). We like them a lot.

They live in Virginia but are originally from Connecticut and were best friends throughout high school and beyond and eventually became more than friends and eventually got engaged and eventually e-mailed us to ask us to photograph their wedding in Connecticut next year and we were like SURE! and then they eventually e-mailed us back to ask if they could have their engagement session in Corolla in the Outer Banks with the wild horses and we were like OKAY! and then this happened.

Tracy+Colin Get Married at CAM

We get super nice and awesome clients all the time, but we feel like we really kick butt with the ones where we’re like, “YEAH, YOU REALLY GET WHAT WE’RE TRYING TO DO HERE, MAN!” They just trusted us, and we felt the vibes of trust, so in turn we were able to do what we do best, and put orange parking cones on the bridesmaids’ heads.

We met these two a while back. Both are from Pennsylvania (although Tracy grew up in neighboring Ohio), but Tracy roots for the Steelers (yeaaah!! wooooo!)  and Colin roots for the Eagles (booooo… hiss!!!). They told us at that initial meeting at their friends were going to be rowdy, and that there would be a lot of them. They were accurate on both accounts – this was the “youngest” wedding we’ve ever attended, with probably 70-90% of the guests being Tracy and Colin’s age, and it was also quite rowdy (details left out to protect the would-be innocent under probably more normal circumstances). We were also informed closer to the wedding that Tracy’s sister Karen, who is in the military, was Tracy’s maid of honor. However, the military wasn’t permitting her to leave base for the wedding, so they Skyped her in via iPad (she was carried down the aisle and was part of the family pictures).

When I asked Tracy what her dress looked like, she told me it had a “crumb catcher”… which was explained to me that it was fitted but had “a bit of pizazz at the top.” She then proceeded to make large jazz hand motions near her armpits. Turns out that she was totally accurate and her dress was kinda like having permanent jazz hands attached to the top and was awesome and completely gorgeous (Colin, you weren’t too bad yourself as the coral tie probably served as a bit of a jazz hand too). I told Tracy to make sure that she ate things really messily to see if the top did actually catch crumbs. I hope she did. Best part of the entire wedding? Listening to “I Swear” by All-4-One during their first dance and witnessing it cause middle school dance flashbacks for everyone involved. We love youuuu, Tracy and Colin!

Date: June 15, 2013

Ceremony and Reception Venue: CAM Raleigh // Raleigh, NC

First Dance Song: “I Swear” – All-4-One… nothing like a middle school throwback

Tracy’s Occupation: Marketing and public relations for an engineering firm

Colin’s Occupation: Engineer

How You Met: Not at work! We actually work for different companies. We met through friends at Village Draft House and bonded over iTunes playlists.

Interesting Bride Fact: Terrified of cats (sorry, Carolyn + Geoff!) + Edward Scissorhands **Editor’s Note: It’s okay, Tracy, we still love you.

Interesting Groom Fact: Holds New Eagle Elementary School male pull-up record (held overall record until recently beat by a female gymnast)

Honeymoon Destination: Turks + Caicos

Vendor Credits: Officiant – Pastor Lindsey Williams | DJ – Randy Bennett of the Joe Bunn DJ Company | Florist – English Garden | Cake – Sugarland | Caterer – PoshNosh | Hair/Makeup – Belle Trachtenberg of Alter Ego | Coordinator – Jamie Leigh Events | Graphic Design – Lauren Hall