Adelaide and Tim

When you're driving up to the house, it's stunning. The driveway is long and peaceful. The house is welcoming.The whole event was warm and genuine and full of laughter. Adelaide and Tim have a lot of people who helped make this wedding feel blessed.
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When I arrived, the guests and the bride and groom were enjoying the lawn games and surrounding countryside. No stress, no rush. Then later, they walked down the aisle together to say their vows. Friends and family members had prepared meaningful things to say about Adelaide and Tim. In Pennsylvania Quaker weddings do not need an officiant and the couple can marry themselves. It's beautiful.

Adelaide is easy to be around. Tim is praised by all who know him. Together, they can do so much to make the lives of others better. Even the children were wonderful. And the 3 dogs, who got along. It really was like a Peaceable Kingdom.

Some of my favorite things:

Josephine

Napkins: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6628173
Marriage document & invites: http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6388312
Cake: http://bcakeny.com/

oops. forgot my favorite

Jackie and Patrick

Jackie and Patrick were married on a day when the weather gods smiled. It was perfect, clear, and sunny. And it seemed that everyone on Jackie's side had been taking dance lessons for years. Sparklers, snowflakes, Fudgie The Whale Cake from Carvel... a very tasty inside joke.

Mays Landing Country Club

Jackie's grandfather painted many of the images in Jackie's mom's house... gorgeous.

Feature in Real Weddings!

Real Weddings from the ISPWP

It's always fantastic to have your work highlighted!
Also highlighted... the fantastic make up of Carolyn Diamond.
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Leslie and David

In case you're wondering, Mummer's music makes people do this...


I'm not really sure what the exchange was that was going on here, but I like the implied conversation.
You know it's fun when everyone's fighting over dancing with grandmom.

Soon after, there was icing on the flower girl's nose.












St Dorothy's and The Old Mill
December 13th

I could say lots about this wedding. It was fun, genuine, and full of great times...

Perfect sunny day. Cheeriest kitchen, sweetest flower girl, and lots of color.
Leslie is my favorite kind of bride. Happy, ready without stress, smiling and smiling and knowing that there's nothing to worry about. I can't be around her without being happy. Apparently, no one else can either!

Beautiful church, a priest I can relate to, big crowd. This is where Leslie grew up and even the people who came to worship after the wedding were asking me how it went. Lots of blessings.

I love red in December. And winter light. And a good bagpipe player is always a treat. This was a lot of fun. Leslie knows herself and that a veil was not her thing, I love what she did with her hair. David is easy going and both families were so commingled, I kept forgetting whose brother was whose.

Funny thing when a reception venue has a stage... some guests might use it. And they used it well. And with tented areas off of the main room, there was lots of celebratory cigars, but without being cold or around anyone else. (I love the smell of cigars outside. Picnics, family, weddings...)

And Blackthorn. Makes me happy.

I also got to see a couple whose wedding I photographed a few years ago. (and you do not look like you had a baby!)

Music by Schaffer Sound, Good guy! I can never remember all their names, but it's always good.

Congratulations! I am so happy for this couple!