Sarah and Jimmy were guests at a wedding a couple of years ago, with a fun little plan in store for them. The bouquet toss would be rigged, a way to give Jimmy a little nudge. That small gesture was enough to get things rolling (and made for great laughter-inducing wedding day toasts when their...
After nine years together, the day that Laura and Jean would officially (and finally!) be married had arrived. As they prepared for the day, their closest friends gathered together downstairs, excitedly waiting to witness one of their favorite love stories begin its next chapter. Laura and Jean...
Angela and Bill started their wedding planning last summer, just a little more than a year before their July wedding. A the day grew closer, they so grateful they had started early it had greatly reduced any wedding-related stress. As belly butterflies, eager anticipation, and happy tears filled...
It was somewhere around when my 2019 wedding season began that Kathryn started to get antsy, dying for her wedding day to finally arrive. Week after week, she would see newly married couples pop up on my Facebook page, so I totally get why she was about to explode from excitement. It does seem...
It's always so incredibly flattering with a newly-married couple reaches out to me for a wedding session. Whether it's because they weren't able to have a professional photographer at their wedding, wanted more out of their wedding photos, or simply wanted an excuse to hop back into their fancy...
Ashley and Justin had fallen in love with the Gettysburg Hotel's classic feel and city's history, but it wasn't until a conversation between her and I that Ashley realized that her subconscious played a large role in their wedding location decision. They became friends in elementary school but...
Emily and Warren each woke up in their separate Glasbern Inn rooms, anticipating what they've waited so long for: to end their night as Mr. and Mrs. and begin each day thereafter creating new memories as married couple! March weather varies each year, making it difficult to know what to expect....
Chelsea, an excited and very newly engaged bride-to-be reached out to me in early summer, so eager to schedule an engagement session and announce her happiness to the world. Thanks to the generosity of Grim's Orchard in Breinigsville, PA, Chelsea's dream of having her engagement photos in a...
I am completely in love with traveling, so I was ridiculously excited when Liz asked if I would travel for her New Mexico wedding. We spent the next year skyping, emailing, with a few calls and facebook chats along the way. Somehow, time had zipped by and I was packing for my cross-country trip,...
Being huge loves of the fall season, it's no surprise that Jessica and Josh planned a mid-October wedding. They instantly fell in love with the atmosphere of The Barn at Flying HIlls in Reading, Pennsylvania, knowing it would be the ideal location to begin their new life together. The year zipped...
It had been perfectly planned out: They'd arrive in Myrtle Beach and a few days later would promise forever in front of their closet family and friends. Then the hurricane swept South Carolina away, and with Jenn and Todd's wedding day only about five days away, their plans were turned upside...
It’s becoming more and more common for couples to hire wedding photographers who aren’t local. As a traveling wedding photographer based in Berks County, Pennsylvania, I have photographed weddings on both the east and west coasts and thought it would be beneficial to share the questions that you...