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!

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. :)

^In order: future, present, us, and past CSP clients all at one wedding. :D

Date: October 20, 2012

First Song: “You & Me” – Lifehouse

Ashley’s Occupation: CPA & Assistant Vice President of Finance at PNC Financial Services

Dave’s Occupation: High School Sports Writer for Trib Total Media and PSU Engineering Student

How You Met: High school, but began dating in college

Ceremony Location: Heinz Chapel // Pittsburgh, PA

Reception Location: Lexus Club at PNC Park // Pittsburgh, PA

Officiant: Rev. Cameron Malcolm IV

DJ: Jay Schimmel

Florist: Brides and Butterflies

Cake: Fenoglietto’s Wedding Cakes and Honeymoon Travel

Caterer: Levy Restaurants (Lexus Club/Gunner’s Lounge at PNC Park)

Hair: Studio Raw

Makeup: Ginger Papp

Eun+Matt Get Married at Duke Chapel Oppa Gangnam Style

This wedding had two ceremonies: one traditional American ceremony at Duke Chapel and the other a traditional Korean Paebeak ceremony at the Chapel Hill Country Club. Then the reception was bookended by Oppa Gangnam Style (that’s right, they played it twice) and small Korean children dancing in sunglasses. It was pretty amazing.

Eun and Matt are incredibly sweet, mild mannered, all around good people. And super smart. I think Geoff and myself were two of the only guests at the wedding without a doctorate in some sort of advanced medicine (well, maybe us and the small children). They, strangely enough, live about 5 minutes down the road and frequently walk their dogs around our house! Small world. Eun is amaaaazingly gorgeous (as were her two lovely and very helpful sisters) and Matt is the traditional James-Dean-style handsome only without a cowboy hat and cigarettes. Their wedding was held on one of the most gorgeous October days in the south and we enjoyed hanging out with them thoroughly!

Assuming they survived their honeymoon to Costa Rica without any near death incidents like we had, we wish them all the best in the world and for them to come visit us during their dog walking. :)

 Date: October 13, 2013

First Song: “Somewhere Out There” – Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram

Eun’s Occupation: Radiology resident

Matt’s Occupation: Radiology resident

How You Met: Gross anatomy lab in medical school

Interesting Bride Fact: Was a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire in college

Interesting Groom Fact: Once at 100 deviled eggs on a bet and then ate 100 more just for fun

Honeymoon Destination: Costa Rica

Ceremony Location: Duke Chapel // Durham, NC

Reception and Korean Ceremony Location: Chapel Hill Country Club // Chapel Hill, NC

Officiant: Rev. Meghan Feldmeyer

DJ: Joe Bunn DJ Company // Kent Bloms

Florist: Whole Foods

Caterer: Chapel Hill Country Club

Hair/Makeup: Aveda Institute