Between the wonderful yet hot weather, and a beautiful ceremony, and fun reception, the day was great.

Enjoy the story of their day.

Jamie and the girls before the ceremony

The ceremony was full of Joy

I love this image of the kids coming down the isle. The looks on their faces, and those of the guests just makes me smile.

After the ceremony we headed to a small park for some portraits of the groups. It was SO HOT outside, so later as the night cooled down, I took Jamie and Ryan out for a few more portraits.

Jamie looks beautiful here!

One of the groomsmen was a chiropractor, so before the wedding party walked into the reception he offered a quick adjustment to who ever would like one.

Jamie and Ryan had a great first dance, but the best one had to be at the end of the night when they danced to some hip hop together.

By this time the weather was so much cooler (85 vs 95) or so we imagined

After our quick (less than 5 minutes) portrait session, i was grabbing my gear and saw Jamie and Ryan both wiping tears from their eyes, its that love and emotion that makes me love shooting weddings.

I hope you enjoyed the photos, Keep an eye out for more upcoming weddings.

Jamie, Ryan, thanks for having me as a part of your day.

I wish you both the best together.

The reception took place at the beautiful Southpointe Golf Club in Cannonsburg.

This is only a small selection of my favorite photos, but I think that it represents Kay and Jack together, completely.

Kays mom works on getting the dress just right.

Kay and her daughters/bridesmaids before the ceremony.

Kay and the flower girls.

Jack and his brothers/groomsmen and his nephew/ring bear

Kays dad was in the hospital recently, but made it to his daughters wedding. Here he waits halfway down the isle to finish walking Kay to Jack to be given away.

The moment after Kay and Jack met at the alter.

After the wedding we shot some quick portraits before heading into the reception.

Kay, Jack, thank you for letting me be a part of your wedding day. It was a pleasure to meet your family, and to get to know both of you. I hope you enjoy the photos, and will let you know as soon as the rest are up on Pictage to proof.

I love these next portraits. Emily is stunning! And i was shooting the wedding with a fever of 102º so having a good looking wedding party made my day so much easier.

Longue Vue Country Club is easily one of the prettiest venues for weddings in Pittsburgh.

On to some more moments that make the day so special.

Emily and Matts’ first dance as husband and wife.

Emily and her dad enjoying a quiet moment while dancing together.

Matt and his mom dance while Emily and Matt’s step father spend a moment together.

I love this moment after Matt gave his toast; such a delicate kiss.

As the night wound down, the young danced. The old talked.

Matt, Emily, it was a pleasure to document your day. I look forward to grabbing a beer next time you’re in Pittsburgh, or I am in NYC. I hope you had a wonderful, relaxing honeymoon. Blessings!

Church: Old Stone Church- Monroeville

Reception: Longue Vue Country Club-Sadie Lowe

Entertainment: DJ Jeremy Ganss

Hair: MCN Salon

Makeup: Suzie Popovich

Flowers: Dragonfly Florist

Yesterday I was brought down to photograph the face of Bistro Soul and Head Chef. Meet Matty.

For you photographers out there, the indoor photos were shot with a Nikon D700, 70-200 2.8 lens, and a Nikon Sb-800 1/16 power high camera right bounced into an umbrella and fired with a pocket wizard. The space was very small so I was using the wall to camera left to bounce a little light back onto her face.

Blessings

So between snowboarding in POWDER (yep that stuff we don’t see on the East Coast very often) and cooking, I somehow manage to have to fight cabin fever off with a camera! I guess that’s just the life of a photographer. Anyways, the one day we had blue skies for a few hours I ran out side and grabbed some photos of the farm I grew up on.

After a drive that typically takes me an hour took me more than twice that long, I ended up getting stuck on the road to my parents house and had to walk the last half mile through more than 18 inches of snow. The next day I got my car out of the snow and headed to Seven Springs for some great skiing. After I could barely stand from hours of riding powder, the sun came out and I had a chance to take some photos around my parents house as the sun was setting.

I even got some photos of Willie my Welsh Corgie enjoying the snow in the driveway because it was to deep for him where it wasn’t plowed.

Happy Snowy Saturday!