We had a gorgeous day with Meg & Mike in Cape May! The weather was perfect, timing went off without a hitch and fun was had by all. You can’t get more perfect than that.
Venue: Congress Hall
Wedding Planner & Stationary Details: Proud to Plan, Erin and her team always do an amazing job.
Florist: The Manic Botanic
Make-up: Cheekadee
Hair: Karen Capcino
Band: 5th Ave CTO
Videographer: Blossom Productions
Second Photographer: Pete Malone, Its always a pleasure Pete!
Starting off with a few of Meg’s amazing details.
Pete spent some time with the guys and I love this shot he got.
The anticipated first look! 
I love the color that Congress Hall has throughout. 
Meg looked amazing!
One of my favorites.
Lounging bridal party
The ceremony site was beautiful.
This little guy came down the aisle and then wanted to just hang out for a while.
Congratulations you two!
The details for this wedding were amazing. So beautiful and colorful.
Some pretty awesome speeches.
A proud papa right there.
The candy bar was delicious.
Thriller was her song and she totally owned it. It was awesome!
Can’t forget an awesome band!
All of the cousins on Meg’s side. Umm big family?
We had such a great time with you two! Thank you so much for having us out on your day.
Don’t forget to watch the slideshow below.
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The love and connection at this wedding could be seen in the air. The day started off rainy and windy, this odd little pocket surrounding the farm, we had beautiful skies on our drive up from Philly until we reached the Farm. I like to think we brought the blue skies with us because the skies cleared and it was a gorgeous day, colder than we all could have requested but gorgeous none the less. The area up in the Catskills is beautiful and the grounds of the Stone Tavern Farm are breathtaking. It suited Katinka and Nelson perfectly.
Venue: Stone Tavern Farm
Florist: Sprout Home
Caterer: Mary’s Cookin Again
Make-up/Hair: Jessa Blades/Esther Ahn
Band/DJ: KRoss (DJ) Ted Gottsegen + Band
Videographer: 1st Floor Films
Second Photographer: Alexa Nahas, Alexa has been working with me for a while now and it was a pleasure to have her out. Some of the images below are hers.
Slideshow music choreography: Nelson! Be sure you watch the slideshow. The music that Nelson put together is amazing, everyone proceeded down the aisle at the wedding to it.
Katinka’s dress was simple and elegant. It was so perfect for her.
Some of the getting ready environment.
Katinka’s dress had these wonderful sash’s. They added these amazing pops of color that flowed beautifully.
Nelson, so handsome.
Ready to see Nelson!
Such a sweet first look.
Their ceremony gave me chills. It was so beautiful. Their love of each filled the room. 
Beautiful Ceremony.
Love this gang of bridal party members.
There were a lot of great moments captured.
This reminds me of a painting!! Beautiful.
We snuck out with Katinka and Nelson for some quick portraits, braving the cold and wind.
My ultimate favorite
You would NEVER guess Katinka was six months pregnant would you? Her dress was amazing.
I love this image of Katinka’s dad.
Katinka’s good friend from Germany made their wedding bands for them. I loved them, so beautiful and meaningful.
It was a great party!
There was a special fireworks show to reveal to Katinka, Nelson and their guests the sex of their baby!
There was supposed to be three fireworks set off to get everyone’s attention and then either a red or blue set of fireworks to reveal boy or girl. It was slightly confusing at first, the colors seemed to be mixed. leaving everyone unsure. Nelson called down to people setting off the fireworks to get confirmation and then announced that they were having a baby girl!!! It was such a an awesome moment for them to share with all of their beloved family and friends.
Friends doing bad gestures for the camera!!! But I love it non the less.
And because on this date last year we were all together , me documenting and Katinka couching Emily and Navid to bring their baby girl Laila into this world. It was a wonderful reunion and a new reason to celebrate with Katinka’s marriage to Nelson and the upcoming birth of their own little girl. I adore all of you so much. I feel so lucky to have clients I care so deeply for. I’ve made many great friendships. 
Last but not least the slideshow! A must watch with Nelson’s music to bring back the feeling we all had on their wedding day. Congratulations you two!
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Julie and Josh had a gorgeous day! It was a tad windy but honestly you couldn’t have asked for more! Heather spent a good bit of time hanging out with Josh and his family before the ceremony and I was with Julie. The word of the day was “sexy”! As saying it helped Julie and everyone to always have a smile on their face.
Venue: Normandy Farm
Florist: Whimsical Welcomes
Wedding Planner: Melissa Spooner from Normandy Farm
Band: Superstar Entertainment
Second Photographer: Heather Fowler, great to see you and work with you again!
Wedding Painter: Joan Zylkin
Josh was able to play some tunes before the ceremony
Julie’s dress was beautiful. 
A few details.
Dad pinning on the something blue.
Julie was beautiful. Her flowers were gorgeous as well. 
Having a little fun.
Ceremony time.
Like I said, it was a tad windy.
Yay!Congratulations you guys!
A little outtake that was too funny not to show!!
One of my favorites. Such awesome light at this time in the day!
Time for the reception and some details.
I love all of these reactions to the speeches Julie and Josh’s brothers gave.
Party time!
I snuck out with them for a few minutes to grab some night shots.
This is the first time I’ve ever seen an event painter! It was so awesome to watch this come together! Such a great gift to take away from the wedding.
Congratulations Julie & Josh. We had such a great time with you on your wedding day, thank you so much for having us.
Enjoy your slideshow!
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Gretchen and Sean were married…. again! Pete was on hand to capture the day for them, and a beautiful day it was. They finally got to have the wedding they had always dreamed of and I am so excited we were there to capture it for them.
Venue: Congress Hall
Hair/make-up: Styles Down the Aisle
Florist: Manic Botanic
DJ: Synergetic Sound and Lighting
Video: First Floor Films
Wedding planner & Stationary: Proud to Plan
I absolutely love this image with all my heart.
Congress Hall has fantastic colors and textures throughout.
Sean’s suit was fantastic. I love all the textures, patterns and colors. It’s a fantastic pairing. Not to mention Gretchen on his arm to finish the look.
Some pretty awesome kiddos.They loved Pete!
I love these family photos.
They took a carriage ride through town to the church.
I love how the ceremony was a family affair. They all came down the aisle together.
a few details.
Gretchen & Sean had a special first dance planned. I love the purple sparkly dress!
Some Lounge time to end a wonderful evening!
Congratulations you two! Don’t forget to watch the slideshow below!
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Jessica and Dan had a beautiful day! I love spring weddings.
Hair and Make-up: Normandy Salon
Venue: Normandy Farm
Florist: Falls Flowers
DJ: Silversound
Second Photographer: Misty Dawn, thank you Misty its always a pleasure.
Jessica coming down to see everyone for the first time in her dress
These are two beautiful people!
Loved the window light in Jessica’s parents living room.
Ladies heading to the church!!
Here comes the bride.
I love seeing the grooms get choked up.
Yay, Married!
Some bridesmaids outtakes.
Good looking set of guys!
And Ladies!
Haha. This is just comical and fantastic.
Jess had on these amazing turquoise cowboy boots. They were awesome.
The cake and Normandy.
First dance.
Jess’s Dads speeches.
The parent dances.
Some beautiful bling!
Dan’s best man had these shirts made up. That is a young Dan, his red suit matching his red hair and red tie. Awesome.
Party Time!
To end the night we did a few quick shots outside.
Thank you so much, it was a pleasure to be a part of your day!!! Enjoy the slideshow.
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Sory & Ed had a beautiful day! They had an old hollywood vintage theme to their wedding and they pulled it off spectacularly.
Venue: Lake House Inn
Florist: Precious Petals
Caterer: Jeffrey Miller Catering
Wedding Planner: Heather McArron
Hair/Makeup: Jason Tavares/Nikki S.
DJ: Scott Goldoor-Signature DJ’s
2nd Photographer: Pete Malone, always a pleasure. Its been so much fun getting to work with you so much.
Starting things off with some details
custom bride and groom flasks, appropriately dressed up for the wedding day.
Bridesmaids kick back with white gloves.
Getting dressed!
Gorgeous couple.
Isabella, the beautiful flower girl.
Ed and his daughters, beauties!
Proud mama.
Ready to see Sory for the first time!
excited and emotional
My favorite of the day.
Isabella did a fantastic job with the petals.
Beautiful ceremony
hehehe, Isabella wanted to pick up some petals during the ceremony. I couldn’t resist.
Married!
The Lake House Inn never disappoints with the details.
Ed was a professional dancer so the first dance and reception was a highlight to see him in action.
Beautiful sunset!!
Paparazzi
Proud papa during the father daughter dance.
Ed danced with his daughters
This was a fantastic party. Salsa dancing in the house it was so much fun to see everyone get down.
Serenade to piano man to end the evening!
Congratulations you guys! We had a blast. Thank you so much for having us out.
Enjoy your slideshow!
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Susan and Jeff had a day full of love, laughter and celebration.
I photographed her sister Katie’s wedding five years ago, crazy! I ran my first 5k with Katie and Susan in the fall of 2011 too. I’ve kept up with this family for a long time and I was so excited when Susan and Jeff got engaged and contacted me. It was such a pleasure to document another wedding for this family, they are so friendly and inviting. Jeff is a wonderful addition as well!
What a gorgeous day! I’ll let these ladies start if all off right!
The professionals that helped make all of this come together:
Venue: The Barn on Bridge
Florist: Lauren Wells
Bakery: Masters Baker
Caterer: Robert Ryan
Make-up: Michaela Parlett
Hair: Mandi Alexander
DJ: Eric Bender
Video: TLC Four Weddings, more on this in sec.
Second Photographer: Pete Malone, Love working with you as always Pete!!
A few of Susan’s Details first.
Susan gave her parents each a very sweet handkerchief and had a photo of her pop-pop on her bouquet, they lost him recently so it was a beautiful way to include him on a special day.
Susan’s gift to Jeff.
I love the pointing of the finger to dad seeing Susan for the first time, don’t you cry!!! So sweet.
Simply gorgeous.
We did portraits before the ceremony, this is Jeff and Susan’s first look. 
West Chester Universities campus proved a beautiful place for pictures.
haha, I have to include this because a lot of times we give a little helping hand to our couples to show them what we want them to do. I especially find it funny here as Pete plays the role of the bride. 🙂
And the result with the real bride. 🙂
Mighty fine looking couple!!
One very excited bridal party!
Coming up on the TLC crew, they are hiding one of the brides.
Susan applied to be on the show Four Weddings on a suggestion from her venue. She waited until the last minute possible to send in her application because she had this feeling that she might be chosen for the show and she was right!
The film crew was really nice and not intrusive at all to the flow of the day and were very friendly.
Susan’s episode will air on August 29th on TLC. Make sure to watch for it!! You know who I’m rooting for!! Go Susan!!
Susan’s grandma seeing her for the first time. I love these so much.
Being interviewed by TLC!
I loved that they had a special instagram hashtag just for their wedding.
Getting ready to head down the aisle.
cutest bunch of flower girls and ring barer.
Here comes the bride.
Susan has the most infectious smile. 
The kiddos did so good during the ceremony.
Susan and Jeff did a special foot washing during the ceremony. It was a very symbolic gesture.
Her brother sang during the foot washing part of the ceremony and I secretly recorded it so that I could use it for the slideshow, there is a link at the bottom of this post.
Married!!!!
The cheers and celebrations at this moment were unlike anything I have ever experienced. The church was full and the cheers of joy and love at this very moment gave you shivers with the vibrations that filled the church.
Quite possibly my favorite of the day!
Some details
The cake was elegant and beautiful.
Introductions!!
Susan’s niece Lucy was having her own conversation during speeches.
Awe and her sister Lucy had a little breakdown but I found this image to be so sweet and so sad at the same time. 
Interviewing with the other brides from Four Weddings.
Smashy smashy!!
I love that Pete got the spray of cake as Susan shoved it into Jeff’s face. 🙂
Katie, Delcan, Emeline and Lucy. You guys have come so far since I shot your wedding long ago! Such and adorable family you now have.
The happiest little girls.
We snuck out for a few more pictures..
This group certainly knows how to party!!!
Sneaking in another bling shot on the Phillies cake…
Susan with the other brides for TLC’s Four Weddings.
And one of me and my brides, one past, one current, both sisters and beautiful. Thank you for trusting me to document important moments in your life.
Susan and Jeff it was a pleasure. I wish you a happy marriage!
Don’t forget to watch the slideshow!!
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We had a fabulous day with Jayme & Ben! Both of their families were fantastic and I have to say adorable.
I feel like it was just yesterday that I met Ben when he sold me my VW Passat! I put that little bug in his head since I bought my car from him, he had to remember to call me when he got engaged. He didn’t forget and I’m so glad. Ben is such a great guy, Jayme chose well. They make such a wonderful couple. The love and energy around them all day was wonderful. We had so much fun with everyone. This is a big post so settle on in.
Venue: Bear Creek Mountain Lodge
Florist: Phoebe Florists
Dress: Maggie Sottero
Hair & Make-up: Lisa Bubrano
Bakery: Granny Schmidt’s
DJ: Celebrations
Second Photographer: Photo Ole, as always the boys had such a fun time with Ole! Thank you so much. Always a pleasure Ole!!
Assistant: Gabi Perez
Photo Booth: Dan’s Camera City Photo Booth
Musicians: Mes Amis Strings
Rally Towels: Towel Trading
Table Settings: Dream Events
What better way to start your wedding day than with few runs down the slopes? The guys always have it so easy.
Some of Jayme’s details
There was lots of laughter on the girl’s side.
All the girls!
I loved that everyone had customized sweat shirts.
Time to get dressed.
Ben, looking mighty handsome.
You guys clean up real nice.
Ladie’s looking lovely!
Jayme, was gorgeous.
Getting set to go down the aisle!
I love seeing the groom’s reaction, my eye is always on him first. 🙂
They did it!
Congratulation you two!
I thought a ring shot with some snow might be appropriate. 
The fog really set in.
The boys oogling over Ben’s ring. Totally jealous.
Off to the slopes! Now that’s service. 
One of my favorites. The original plan was to have them ski down but time didn’t allow for it and the fog would have proven a little difficult too. We have an anniversary shoot date for next year.
I love all the skiers coming down the mountain behind Jayme.
First Dance
The parent dances were very sweet.
Ugh, love this shot during Jayme’s Dad’s speech.
Smashers.
“Its getting hot in here……” hahaha!
I think the guest had a little bit of fun.
Ben working the dance to get the garter.
The crazy lights from the DJ on the dance floor were super colorful. 
ha! Love it.
Congratulation you two! It was so much fun.
Make sure to watch the slideshow for some surprises towards the end.
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We had a wonderful day with Stefanie & Mike. It was a true winter wedding with a nice chill in the air!
Venue: Talamore Country Club
Florist: Gordon Florist
Dress: Moonlight
Make-up: Samantha Garro
DJ: Synergetic Sounds and Lighting
Second Photographer: Pete Malone
Assistant: Gabi Perez
Starting with a few details
Stefanie was stunning.
I love catching the grooms trying to hold it together as their bride comes down the aisle.
Loved Stefanie’s place card wreaths
The string lights added such a nice touch!
Dad is always watching you Mike!
Family members made all these goodies.
Thank you Stefanie & Mike. We had a wonderful time on your day!
Enjoy the slideshow!
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Amanda and Tony had a wedding date set for this coming March but they both quickly realized they wanted to have a very different kind of wedding. They decided that October was the best month and I feel pretty special since they planned it around all the other wedding dates I was booked for in October. We were supposed to do their engagement shoot this fall, haha, wedding instead! So they dragged me kicking and screaming down to Jamaica. How dare they. psh. We had a fantastic time. I totally felt more like a friend who was down there to hang out than to do a job. Amanda and Tony were very hospitable and took very good care of us while we were there.
It had rained every afternoon leading up to their wedding and we were all just keeping our fingers crossed that we would get a gorgeous sunset ceremony. You’ll see below that it looked just ok…… 🙂 Shall we take a look?
Amanda getting done up.
Gorgeous start of the day. 
Tony cleans up real nice.
Ready to head down the aisle
I loved their rings. Very unique.
Amanda, ready.
Terrible afternoon for a wedding. Why do people go to Jamaica….. haha! 
Heading down the aisle.
Yay! Married.
Its official.
The select group of friends who joined for the wedding.
Love this.
Naughty and Nice.
Very sweet.
All kidding and sarcasm aside, it was a glorious evening.
The Bridal Party.
Love this.
The next morning these two braved major hangovers and little to no sleep to meet me for a sunrise shoot.
Our dog friend joined us.
One of my favorites. 
Then it was time to get a little wet. I think they had too much fun splashing me.
Probably the largest star fish I’ve ever seen.
A few details and some more scenery.
Thank you so much for bringing me with you. Seriously THANK YOU!! It was so much fun, a much-needed little getaway during a busy season and it was great to get to know you better and call you both friends.
Enjoy your slideshow.
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