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May 01
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Urban Expedition – Sara & Paul’s Pittsburgh Spring Engagement

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I will follow adventurous couples anywhere!!  Sara and Paul are getting married this June at Lingrow Farm and while they are from the Pittsburgh area, they live out of state now.  For their spring engagement photos, they wanted to travel back to where it all began and visit all of the locations in Pittsburgh that were special to them and showcase the city they fell in love with.  From their first date in Lawrenceville, to the bridge they walked across to work every day, to the Children’s Museum and the Point State Park, we had a great time playing tourists around town.  Our original plan had been to do their photo session in pittsburgh in the winter with all of the holiday lights, but mother nature decided it should be zero degrees that weekend!  So we waited.  Then we rescheduled for Easter and it looked like we might have snow…

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Sep 05
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Summer Schenley Park Engagement | Leah & Glenn

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Leah and Glenn are getting married this weekend and it’s time to look back and celebrate their engagement one last time before they tie the knot!  One of their favorite activities is going for a run together or taking a long walk with their dog, Kaia.  Last summer they were living in Pittsburgh and Schenley Park was one of their frequent evening hang outs.  We met up and walked the trail near Panther Hollow at sunset and caught the last vibrant colors of the evening on top of the overlook.  They even used the first photo below as their save the date they sent out to their wedding guests!   Kaia frequently stole the show till their friends came by to pick her up so they could continue with photos dog-free.  Kaia happily trotted off to their car leaving us to feel like the parents whose kindergartner runs off with…

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Aug 17
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Point State Park Engagement Photos | Christina & Corey

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Christina and Corey are getting married in just two days!  Today, we flash back to their engagement session last July in Pittsburgh.  We started out shooting with the skyline and dodging the geese along the north shore and then finished out the day with a spectacular sunset at Point State Park!  By the time we were done, we had crossed two bridges two times, walked from the science center to allegheny landing twice, highlighted their love of baseball at PNC park, and put in a total of four miles on the fitbit!   We loved shooting through sunset because we could play with the light.  A good sunset yields soft natural light photos, colorful silhouettes, and the opportunity to use some off camera flash for special effects.  It’s a great reason to schedule your engagement session and your wedding photos to shoot through the golden hour in the evening!  (Bring…

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Jun 15
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Schenley Park Engagement Session | Becky & Matt

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Two great people are getting married this week and they are sporting possibly the greatest wedding hashtag I’ve ever seen!  Meet the soon to be Mr. & Mrs. Matt Slippy who rolled onto facebook this week with their social media moniker #Slippywhenwed – BOOM!  Not only is it fabulous, but it’s Pittsburgh fabulous because when it’s icy out – other cities become slipp-er-y but here in Pittsburgh – roads and sidewalks get “slippy”.   Enough about our western Pennsylvania verbiage, let’s flash it all the way back to last fall when we met up in Pittsburgh for their Schenley Park engagement photos! There’s a hilarious story behind this photo.  As we’re standing there, (having scaled a small stone wall in order to position Becky and Matt with a bright orange tree behind them) wearing two cameras and with an assistant holding a flash and umbrella set up, a strange woman approaches…

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Jun 07
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Surprise proposal revealed!

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This story starts with a ring under the Christmas tree in station square on New Years Eve 2015.  Megan had been working as a wedding coordinator for Lingrow Farm, that’s how she and I met, but she met Johnny in Station Square years before that.  They were both attending St. Vincent University and working for the Event and Conference Services Department.  If I remember the story right, Megan was driving the shuttle and saw Johnny waiting to be picked up on the curb.  It wasn’t long before they were back at Station Square on their first date, and three years later I got an email from Johnny that he had a plan.  These two St. Vincent alumni were getting married, Megan just didn’t know it yet.  Johnny explained that he would be home from DC for New Years and was going to take Megan out to dinner in Station Square…

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Mar 24
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Pittsburgh Winter Engagement Session | Megan & John

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We waited three months for snow this winter to shoot  Megan and John’s pittsburgh winter engagement session.  It was the fourth and final installment of their four season engagement series that began last spring in Washington DC at the Cherry Blossom Festival.  After rescheduling many times, either because there was no snow, or because the windchill was below zero, we decided to take the last week of winter and make it work!  Our plan was to revisit the site where Johnny proposed in front of the Hard Rock Cafe Christmas tree in Station Square.  Since the trees were already down, we explored the nearby Smithfield Street bridge.  I loved the way Megan’s red peacoat looked with the blue bridge supports!  Don’t let their comfortable smiles fool you, it was FREEZING!   Just when we thought we were going to succumb to hypothermia, we discovered a campfire burning outside of Bar…

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Feb 20
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Pittsburgh winter wedding | Courtney + Matt

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I’m going to warn you right at the beginning of this post, I am sharing a TON of photos from Courtney and Matt’s Pittsburgh winter wedding ! Though Mother Nature didn’t give us any snow, she did bless us with a beautiful 50 degree day at the end of January!  It was a real treat to have sunshine, clear roads, and blue skies over the city! The day started off with a brunch at Courtney’s parents’ house for the girls while everyone got their hair and make up done.     Courtney’s mom and her sister, Lindsey, helped her into her dress. The photos during this ‘getting ready’ portion of every wedding day are always some of my favorite. We always make time for a few family portraits before the excitement of the day takes over.     The ceremony was held at Calvary United Methodist Church on Pittsburgh’s north…

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Sep 14
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Sara & Josh | Magical Harry Potter Themed Engagement Session

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When Josh and Sara contacted me to shoot their wedding, they said they wanted to do something a little different for their engagement photos.  They are both devoted Harry Potter fans.  Josh even proposed in Orlando at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter by leading Sara on what she thought was an official tourist scavenger hunt contest put on by AAA travel.  Actually, it was a clever document Josh put together with a graphic designer friend.  They scoured the park trying to locate all of the Horcruxes, the last of which was a ring.  Sara approached the cart and asked the worker if she had the ring, to which the lady replied “I don’t have the ring, but he might.”  When Sara turned around, Josh was holding a wand box, and when she opened it there was a diamond ring on the wand inside with a note that read “Always.” …

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