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Pam and Bill had a gorgeous day! Everything went perfectly. Its been such a pleasure getting to know Pam and Bill and seeing everyone’s excitement for them on their wedding day. You guys have fantastic families, thank you for choosing me to be a part of your day. Before getting too far of course here are some of the major players that helped make this day happen:
This little gal was so adorable and so happy all day long!!
Pinning the something old on the dress.
I love when me and my second shooter and I get similar shots of the bride and groom getting ready.
Pam looked Amazing.
Love this.
Bill looked very handsome too.
The Basilica is very impressive!
I adore this shot Heather got before Pam’s mom walked her down the isle.
Bill tried biting his lip to hold back his emotion when seeing Pam come down the isle. Too cute.
We walked around the neighborhood for some portraits.
Love this sequence.
And a final dip to end the post. 🙂 Be sure to check out more images from their day in the slideshow.
Meredith & Chris had a perfect May wedding! The world did not end and the day could not have been any more amazing. Before getting too far I always like to mention all the vendors who played a role in the wedding day.
Some getting ready shots
Putting on the veil was the final touch.
Chris looking mighty handsome
To the church we go to get married!
St. Paul’s is amazing.
Ring exchange
I just enjoy this of Chris and his guys.
We were actually ahead of schedule, which rarely happens, so we walked down to Isgro’s for some snacks. A nice gentleman, just a regular customer, treated Meredith and Chris to their goodies and Isgro’s also gave them some special cup cakes. Pays to go into a bakery after getting married!!
Meredith being gorgeous. Aren’t her flowers amazing?
Awe, you guys are too cute.
A nice moment and nice light in the limo.Love the Chestnut Club! Such a cool place.
First Dance
Chris’s sister and nieces, enjoying the band. I couldn’t resist putting this one in. I think this may have been Meredith’s favorite gift……
You guys were wonderful and so much fun! I am happy to have been a part of your day.
For more of a sneak peek into the wedding day make sure you watch the slideshow.
Slideshow
Well it must be the first wedding of the season seeing as I am blogging it within a week of the event!
Nice way to start out the season that’s for sure.
Kristen & Moncef were married at the Lippincott House Bed and Breakfast off of Rittenhouse Square this past Saturday. It was a lovely brisk day for a wedding and they were adorable.
A special thank you to Pete Malone of 217 Photography for joining me. We always have fun shooting together and you will see some of his images below.
Kristen and Monsef were a tad nontraditional, which I loved. This is a second marraige for both of them and they have been together for a long time. It was my first time meeting each of them in person and my first impression of them was just total unconditional love for each other. They were as giddy as a couple newly dating and as comfortable as the couple they are and have been for many years. Moncef couldn’t stay out of the room as Kristen was finishing to get ready. He kept going in and out of the room as she was dressing, it was very sweet.
a few details
This cake! OMG the detail in this cake was stunning. All the work in the hand coloring of the sugar fruit, flowers and leaves. Wow.
Meet Moncef
Kristen
They make a lovely couple
Here is that giddiness I was mentioning before. They were so natural.
Kristen has a little sass in her.
During the ceremony, lots of great expression
I love this succession of images
Yay! Congratulations.
Monsef’s two sons gave some very sweet heartfelt speeches. It was so nice to hear them speak so highly of their dad and how proud they were of him.
It may have been a small and intimate wedding, but this group knew how to party.
In their own world.
To end the night we went up to the roof deck for a few shots against the city scape. Congratulations you guys!
To see more images from the day check out the slideshow below.
I am very excited to finally announce an image of mine making it into the PDN magazine’s Top Knots Wedding Photography Issue 2011!! The deadline for entries always falls during the high holiday season and always gets put on the back burner for submitting. I was determined not to miss the deadline this year and it paid off! I am so thrilled and excited to be featured in this issue. I can’t even contain myself.
You will recognize this lovely couple, Melanie and Joe, from one of the rotating headers on the blog and maybe you remember their wedding as well. They were married in September 2009 and it was one of my favorite weddings that year. They are such a sweet couple, great family and I couldn’t be more excited that their image was chosen.You can find PDN at most any major bookstore, pick one up!
This could not be a more perfect wedding to end the year on, literally! This was my last wedding of the season and its rounding out a great year of weddings posted here on the blog. I’m going out with a big one!
I have been looking forward to this wedding all season! Yes, it was my last wedding but that’s not why. I know Marcy from Drexel when she was a student and I was the facility manager, I was particularly close with her class and even took a book design class with them. Needless to say years after graduation I still keep in touch with a number of people from her class. If you know anything about Drexel and the graphic design program you know that they produce some pretty amazing graphic designers. I knew Marcy was going to go all out with everything for her wedding and she didn’t disappoint. There were so many details at her wedding and everything tied into each other seamlessly. If anything was in print, it was designed by Marcy. Her invitations have been featured on various wedding blog sites already.
Marcy’s dress was perfect for her in every way.
Kiss from dad after giving him his card.
Ryan was with the boys, this sad face of Ed’s is because he realized the beverage of choice for the day had pretty high alcohol content…hmm guess you shouldn’t really have too many of those before the wedding. 🙂
Little detail from the invitations.
Something special that was tied into Marcy’s dress.
Gorgeous.
This was the last weekend we had any leaves or color on the tree’s! It was perfect.
Lovely bunch of ladies
Haha! I was pleasantly surprised to see this moment caught by Ryan. Heading into the church to get hitched.
The long walk and look at that we weren’t running too late. 🙂 (Yeah I notice that stuff.)
The first look!
St. Laurentius Church was beautiful
Ring exchange
Checking out the new accessories.
Marcy’s dad, proud of his little girl.
Yeah!!
That’s one proud Papa!
They had an “eco-fetti” toss after the ceremony, all these little bits are biodegradable.
Love these shots of the guys that Ryan got.
One pretty good looking bridal party!
Being that it was November and the sun sets early we were pleasantly surprised with the gorgeous sunset and glow in the sky for their portraits. You can’t get this kind of sky for portraits any other time of year.
Ed’s a good jumper and enjoys doing it, so why not!
On our way to PAFA we made on last pit stop at City Hall. We decided to take a different perspective than the usual shoot from the middle of broad street shot.
A few more details.
Marcy’s dad surprised them by getting the Philly Fanatic to come to the cocktail hour. Nobody knew about it but dad, it was a great surprise.
This group knew how to party. It was endless dance party all night.
The different tables kept having spirited competitions throughout the night.
Marcy’s dad gave a wonderful speech.
Love this shot. I couldn’t begin to tell you what was happening at this moment.Well if that was not enough images for you, there are many many more in the sideshow below.
But wait! There’s more! Here is a fun slideshow of all the photo booth images captured that night. People loved it, it was a hit. My crew even participated.
Marcy & Ed, thank you for having me out to document this day for you! It was a blast, both your families are awesome.
When you are doing a destination wedding, not doing day after session would almost be a disservice. This is my first one and of course was also a first for Joe and Anna. They were the perfect couple for it too, these two throw caution to the wind everyday. But seriously, it was such a fun way to do things in the wedding dress that you would never ever do on your wedding day. For those of you who are curious the dress was not ruined, Anna’s mom took it home with her and actually washed the dress herself in Woolite! Yep, I never heard of anyone doing that before but the dress came out good as new.
This was the Sunday evening after the wedding, we figured it would be better to wait to the end of the day for the best light and we knew there would be no way any of us were waking up for an early shoot. We were all beat as it was and could have easily passed on going out to do this shoot, but yeah that was not going to happen. We hailed a water taxi, the only way you can get out to Lovers Beach, we had the clothing in a separate bag. It was a tad later than we planned on getting out there, but that’s no surprise…. 🙂 The taxi guys didn’t really want to let us off the boat either, we didn’t realize they were not supposed to take people out to Lovers Beach past a certain time and we were pretty close to that time. We were told we had thirty minutes and they would be back for us… didn’t they realize I wanted more time than that, silly water taxi dudes. So we hustled, I knew everything I wanted to do and to get it done in half an hour, well. I don’t think I have ever laced up a bride so fast! haha!
Joe and Anna were great, it was such a fun shoot and because we were there so late that meant we were the only ones on the beach! It was the best. We had a blast and while I would have loved another twenty minutes with them, when the taxi dudes came to get us we had done everything I planned on doing so really it was perfect. Want to see some images, enough of my rambling?
The rock formations on Lovers Beach are spectacular!
Sun-kissed beauties
Love!
One of my favorites
For fun I put together a few gifs for you
This was the resulting image of the above run, they conveniently fell down and well might as well go with it!
Favorite. I love how this doesn’t even look like the beach.
Gorgeous of Anna
Joe’s modeling debut, these two are hot stuff.
This is what happened next
Such good sports! haha! That surf was crazy. It packed a wholop.
I love these last two, the moments after being pummeled by a wave.Off into the sunset you go! So much fun! This shoot was the best and maybe the highlight of the trip.
Congratulations Anna & Joe! You guys are the best.
Wow, where to begin? At the end of October I traveled down to Cabo San Lucas Mexico to photograph Joe and Anna’s wedding. I’ve known Joe for a long time, we were house-mates way back when in college at Drexel. I have only recently known Anna but in the short time I have it is very clear that she and Joe are a perfect match. These two are like the male and female versions of each other, its crazy. And who has a destination wedding that 82 guests fly across the country to go to, well that would be Anna and Joe. These people know how to party. I’m going to head straight into the images and tell the story along the way. Check back at the beginning of the week for more pictures from the day after session we did on Lovers Beach, those images deserve their own post.
I started the day with Anna and the girls at the spa, doing the getting ready thing.
I ducked out for a little bit to spend a little time with Joe and the guys. Check out this Don Juan or Pablo Escobar, which ever you choose. Joe fits in nicely here.
The penthouse suite was simply amazing.
The groomsmen. The crazy thing about this is that Joe’s son Alec is sitting next to him and the last time I saw him he was in diapers, talk about how time flies!
I love this one of Joe.
Back over to Anna and the girls, almost ready!
Favorite of Anna, gorgeous.
Seriously, you can’t take a bad picture of her.
Another favorite, this was in the hallway of the salon.
Wedding time, these guys were so sweet.
LOVE this image, I forgot what this moment was and then after looking through the whole wedding again this moment is when Jenna (Joe’s sister who officiated the wedding) asked all the guests if there was anyone who came to Cabo for the wedding thought they should not be wed. It was a very funny moment. Of course nobody objected. 🙂
Gorgeous gorgeous day! I love the cloud cover.
Married! Wholy cow.
I of course have to have a little fun with the bridal party, even in Cabo.
Another favorite, but who am I kidding they are all favorites.
A little sense of place for you.
Joe and Anna had the best dance hands down of the season. They had been taking salsa lessons and this dance was so much fun!
Parent dances, Anna did the polka with her dad and Joe had a wonderful moment with his mom.
Joe’s parents, too cute.
a little stolen moment
This group knew how to get down, this was a crazy dance party that is for sure.
Joe’s Aunt lead a traditional Lebanese wedding dance.
Joe and Alec, I can’t get over it. Alec has grown into such a nice young man and taller than Joe? Crazy.
One more for the end of the night.
Check back next week for the day after session we did on Lovers Beach, the images will not disappoint.
In the mean time, sit back and enjoy the slideshow. Its a loaded one.
Joe and Anna congratulations, what an amazing trip, wonderful friends and family. I am so happy I could play a part in your day.
Its been a crazy busy end to an amazing season! I have a long line up of posts to share and many have been anxiously been awaiting Ditte and Dan’s. Without further ado lets get to some images!
Ceremony Location: Swathmore College Scott Arboretum Ampitheater
Reception: Distrito Restaurant
Day of Coordinator: Erin Proud, Proud to Plan
Cake: Brown Betty
Second Photographer: Adam Lerner, Thank you so much Adam it was a pleasure shooting with you!
Ditte and Dan had a gorgeous fall day, perfection. Love and emotion was just emanating off everyone all day, everyone so happy and excited for Ditte and Dan. Almost all the guests came from long distances to celebrate these two.
We will start of with the dress.
Ditte writing down her vows.
Ditte had two pairs of shoes and I loved her bouquet.
Ditte’s brother walked her down the isle.
Dan was anxious to see her.
I adore this, so sweet. They were both so emotional during the ceremony.
I love the officiants expression, making sure the rings are exchanged properly!
Married!!
We did a few photos on Swathmore’s campus before heading to Distrito.
Lots of Mexican flare.
It is a big tradition for the Danish to have many speeches at weddings and there were many speaches given for Ditte and Dan. I love this shot during Ditte’s mom’s speech.
Bringing two cultures together
I stole them away for a few more portraits in the restaurant.
Their first dance was so sweet.
Another Danish tradition it to cut the toes of the grooms socks off, Ditte is cheering this on!
Very expressive cake cutting. 🙂Ditte and Dan it was a pleasure, I am so happy for the two of you! Be sure to check out the slideshow for more images!
Venue: Lake House Inn
Flowers: Hairy Mary’s
Dress: Daniel Thompson
Make-up: Caroline Diamond & Jean Phillips
Caterer: Jeffrey Miller
Wedding Planner: Robyn Ball
Band: Janis Nowlan Band
Videographer: Tee McKnight
Second Photographer: Pete Malone of 217 Photography, Fantastic job Pete. The boys loved you and its always such a fun time shooting with you! You got some great stuff, you’ll see some images of yours below.
Assistant: Stephanie Lugo, always love when you can come out on weddings Stephanie!
Rhiannon and Shawn had a gorgeous fall day! Everyone was such a pleasure to be around and to work with! Lets look at some images!
Some ring bling
Gorgeous bouquet
One excited bride, look at those toes, so excited to get into that gorgeous dress.
A few small details from each side of the preparation.
Love all the little moments when getting Rhiannon into her dress.
The sash was a work of art in itself. It took a few tries and many bridesmaids to get it perfect.
Beautiful Rhiannon
Check out those eyes. I have done zero to enhance these babies.
I love love love these two of Shawn.
wonderful moment with mom.
The walk down the isle included a few sets of stairs. I love all the visual transitions here with her dad walking her down the isle.
Married!
Some amazing details
These two are too adorable.
The Janis Nowlan Band had this party rocking.
Love this! haha.
There were many wonderful moments with Rhiannon and her mom.
A few night shots to wrap up the evening.
Love the movement in Rhiannon’s dress here.You guys were awesome! Your families fantastic and the bridal party was so much fun. Thank choosing me to document your day!
Allie and Brent had the perfect day with perfect weather to boot.
A few details to start
Brent and his buddies have a tradition of toasting with a special bottle of bourbon and signing it on their wedding day.
Allie was beaming all day!
Off to the church!
This little guy let his excitement be known.
Here comes the bride!
There were many tender moments during the ceremony.
I always love getting the bride and groom coming down the isle as Mr. & Mrs.
Off to Aronimink!
My usual fun bridal party series.
I love this.
They were very excited to do a little putting in their wedding attire.
Allie embracing the beautiful bride in her.
Brent mighty handsome himself
A classic favorite.
This group was a lively bunch!
You can tell this guy is from Brents side of the family with that light hair and looking quite dapper.
Limbo improvisation.
End of the night ballad.
They were sent off with bubbles!
This group knew how to have a good time! Allie and Brent were beaming with love and excitement the whole day. We all had a great time.
Be sure to check out more images from their day in the slideshow.
Love the Chestnut Club! Such a cool place.
I couldn’t resist putting this one in. I think this may have been Meredith’s favorite gift……
Congratulations you guys!
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Heading into the church to get hitched.
Well if that was not enough images for you, there are many many more in the sideshow below.
Off into the sunset you go!
So much fun! This shoot was the best and maybe the highlight of the trip.
Ditte and Dan it was a pleasure, I am so happy for the two of you!
You guys were awesome! Your families fantastic and the bridal party was so much fun. Thank choosing me to document your day!
