Pittsburgh Wedding Photographer: Nancy+Casey

Back to the ‘Burgh for a fantastic farm wedding of two fellow Burrell High School alumni, Nancy and Casey. ;) They were both a grade above me, but I’ve known Casey since I was in 6th grade and we were both in marching band. In fact, I remember talking to him on ICQ… that’s how old we go back. High-fives to all of you reading who know what ICQ is, and even more high-fives to those of you who remember using it. ;) I’ve known his parents for just as long as they’d help out on all sorts of band functions, and his dad is the mayor of my hometown. Last year at the wedding of our fellow marching band alumni, Pete, Casey’s dad was the officiant. Photography life comes full circle yet again! :)

I knew Nancy in high school to smile and wave, but I’ve gotten to know her a lot better over the wedding, and she is just as sweet and beautiful as can be. Nancy and Casey live in North Dakota now where she is the manager at Enterprise and Casey is the Operations Specialist at Grand Forks International Airport. They planned their wedding in Pittsburgh to be closer to family and friends. We had a fantastic time seeing them and their farm wedding was gorgeous. This venue is kind of insane, and I had no idea a place like this existed about twenty minutes outside of my parent’s house. I was in photographer heaven due to the amount of cats. :) Sorry for the excessive pictures of cats and dogs, guys. ;)

Date: September 24, 2011

Ceremony and Reception Venue: Lingrow Farm // Leechburg, PA

DJ: Frank Sarno

Florist: Leechburg Floral

Cake: Fenogliettos’s Wedding Cakes

Caterer: Gardas Restaurant

Hair/Makeup: Phillip Pelusi

Coordinator: Linda Alworth, Lingrow Farm

Our super lovely bride below and the handsome gents above. :)

Below: the best man got a little creative with photoshop, and the best series of girls taking shots ever.

Nancy’s dad – you are the best. I usually take one picture from the wedding and put it on my Facebook, and I very seriously considered this series because it is ridiculous.

Above: the best man made up for his photoshop stunt by purchasing fireworks for Casey and setting them off on the farm. Below: Buddy, the farm dog, joins the dance floor and barks along to “Who Let the Dogs Out?” No joke. I asked the owner, “Does he do this all the time?” to which she responded, “Only if he likes the song.”

Congratulations, Nancy and Casey! We wish you many years of happiness and warm temperatures in North Dakota! :D Thank you so much for having us photograph your wedding. We hope you looove them!

Raleigh Engagement Photographer: Rebekah+Braden

Two high-school sweetheart couples in a row here on the blog. :) Although, Rebekah+Braden have known each other since they were very little and their mothers were long friends. She wrote in an e-mail to me, “I’m pretty sure I fell in love in the 7th grade!” Rebekah is currently a senior at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville (Not NC’s Fayetteville) getting her degree in speech therapy. I’m always really interested in what people do for a living and realized with surprise that Rebekah is my first speech therapist! This was kind of exciting because my sister is a speech therapist, so we talked about that stuff for a while. :) Braden is here at Campbell University pursuing his masters in Education so that he can coach football… both high school and college. He played for 3 years at SMU in Dallas and still plays at Campbell. They are both super cute and sweet and we had a great time with them! I told Rebekah to wear boots because we’d be trapezing through some tall grass, but while we didn’t run into any poisonous plants, there were plenty of signs telling us to avoid the snakes. :(

I do believe this was Geoff’s last engagement session for the year that he’ll shoot with me as his regular full-time job prevents him from shooting once the sun sets earlier and earlier, but I appreciate him coming with me to this session and all the others throughout the year! He’s obviously still coming to weddings, but I can handle the engagements on my own. ;) Thank you for attending as many engagements as you could in 2011, Geoff!

Congratulations, Rebekah and Braden! We hope your Texas wedding is wonderful! :D

Raleigh Engagement Photographer: Katrece+Dominique

The first time Katrece and Dominique tried to do an engagement session, we cancelled it due to the literally 100% chance of rain at the time of their session. Of course, despite the 100% chance of rain, it was completely sunny. :) We were all disappointed, but at least this make-up session was just as beautiful out as the day we cancelled, haha, and I was happy to finally meet the happy couple!

Dominique is a civil engineer for Raleigh and Katrece currently lives in Phoenix where she’s a manager for an insurance company. They’re getting married in Michigan, where they’re both originally from. They met in high school… and Katrece laughed as she told me that Dominique’s first words to her were, “So, what football team do you like?” In fact, Katrece laughed most of the session as did Dominique. :) I don’t think I’ve ever been around such seriously happy people. They weren’t nervous (or, if they were, they didn’t show it), didn’t make me nervous (and I usually get pretty nervous), and were just totally chill… poking fun at each other and themselves the entire time. They were seriously fun to work with.

We went downtown, where Dominique requested, then to Lake Johnson, where Katrece was adamant about getting pictures taken in a naturey setting. Dominique was not cool with this… mostly because he’s really into his shoes and there were a lot of geese. ;) But the pictures are great, and I’m sure you’ll agree it was worth it, Dominique! :D

Can I just say too, that both Katrece and Dominique were the two tallest clients I’ve ever worked with? Seriously, seriously tall… and ridiculously good looking, of course.

Congratulations on your wedding, Katrece and Dominique! We wish you the best of luck with your ceremony in Michigan!