November 9, 2012

Jennifer+Patrick Have a Wedding in Charlotte

This wedding had the 5 key components to any great wedding: a beautiful bride in a fluffy dress, a groom who is 6’7 who told you that you sounded taller on the phone, the cutest ring bearer in the entire land, a totally kick butt reception venue in the city, and dogs in bow ties named Calvin and Hobbes. The wedding wasn’t pitched to us quite like that… it was more like, “Hey, come shoot our wedding in Charlotte!” and we were all, “Okay!” and then when we met them and got there we knew it would totally rule. And rule it did.

Really, though, this reception venue is my type of venue. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a place so awesomely colorful or awesome. Please bring us back, Charlotte. We like it there. You are always nice to us and contain the state’s only Ikea. And to Jen and Patrick – we love you both very much and had the BEST time. Thanks for putting up with us following you around and making cheesy jokes. We’ll come visit you, ok?

Date: November 3, 2012

First Song: “You Are The Best Thing” – Ray LaMontagne

Jennifer’s Occupation: Advertising for Lowe’s Home Improvement

Patrick’s Occupation: Project Engineer for Crowder Construction

How You Met: We actually knew each other wayyyy back in high school. I was dating one of his friends, and we all hung out together. Fast froward about 10 years later and we were both living in a tiny town in NC (Kernersville) but didn’t know we both lived there. UNTIL I saw on Facebook (of all places!), that he lived in Kernersville. And since I didn’t know a single other person who lived there, I reached out to him and asked him what the hell he was doing living in Kernersville! We had dinner a few days later and then were pretty much inseperable after that! With a lack of exciting things to do in that small town that we loved SO much, we spent several nights in the Kville bowling alley drinking $1 drafts and having fierce bowling competitions.

Interesting Bride Fact: Jennifer loves to make things and crafted about 95% of the decorations for the wedding (with some help, of course!). She’s also fluent in German, a language she learned in 3rd grade while attending a German Immersion School in Charlotte.

Interesting Groom Fact: Patrick is 6’7

Honeymoon Location: Mexico

Ceremony Location: Covenant Presbyterian Church // Charlotte, NC

Reception Location: The Extravaganza Depot // Charlotte, NC

DJ: Spintastic Sounds

Florist: Party Blooms

Cake: Simply Delicious Cakes by Whit

Caterer: Family Catering

Hair: La Bella Hair

Makeup: Jessica Bagwell

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November 5, 2012

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!

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October 31, 2012

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. :)