November 6, 2012

Meaghan+TJ are engaged and like autumn

Meaghan and TJ just moved up from Charleston where there wasn’t too much seasonal change, so they were pretty excited to do their engagement pictures in Raleigh in the fall with the leaves and the prettiness and so on. And the leaves were looking GREAT!! And then Sandy came through and blew a bunch of them away. :) But no fear! There were still some left in this forest! So we grabbed their props and walked down the lane and took pictures with the trees. We also, bizarrely enough, stumbled upon some sort of army training exercise where a bunch of guys in camo with artillery were sneaking around the woods that surrounded us. We really wanted them to pop up a few feet away in the background of the pictures, but alas, it was not to be. So we made our own fun by talking about silly stuff and being generally goofy and them being obviously cute and we found the NC State horses who were pretty photogenic but not as much as Meaghan and TJ. :)

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November 5, 2012

Jen and her dress

Jen and Patrick were married on Saturday so now I can throw these up here without Patrick seeing them before the wedding day and me ruining the whole thing. :) Jen has a giant, fluffy dress that is amazing. Yet, in a rare turn of events that we hardly ever see, she could actually move around in it and wasn’t really worried about it. It was a heavy dress, but she carried the train herself AND her awesome bouquet made of brooches which added another 5-10lbs. I probably should’ve taken before/after arm flexing shots of her. Jen is gorgeous and there will be more of her awesome pretty face to come shortly!

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October 31, 2012

Ashley+Dave Have a Pittsburgh Wedding

This wedding was awesome and held at two very quintessential Pittsburgh places (well, with the exception of Primanti’s) so we quit jaggin around, red up arr haas in North Carolina, came up to da ‘Burgh and went dahntahn to shoot their wedding n’at yinz guys.

Ashley and Dave both went to the same high school as me, only 4 years earlier, so it was a wedding full of people who went to school with my sister (there were several mistaken identity issues) but whom I vaguely knew from seeing their faces at my sister’s random school functions. So there was a lot of, “Is that…?” and “Are you…?” and “You look familiar…” going on, and a few reunions of people who were my sister’s friends who I tried to usurp for my own friendship back in the day because I was that type of little sister (sorry, Laura). Laura actually set me up for this wedding by reuniting with Ashley when they were both put on a flight to Los Angeles and randomly sat next to each other and Ashley had just gotten engaged. Small world! There was also one past wedding couple (Morgan and Jim!) and one future wedding couple (Julianne and Ian!) at this wedding which was super cool… so we had a great time photographing this wedding as well as hanging out with some really awesome folks.

Ashley was a really excited (and gorgeous!!) bride, but I think Dave’s excitement took the cake, as he was one of the happiest grooms we’ve ever photographed. He made some sort of golf analogy to us at the end of the night that we can’t quite remember, but the gist of it was that his wedding day was, in short, the best day ever. :)