It is so much fun to receive inquiry emails from the friends of our brides and grooms! MaryKate was a bridesmaid in Samantha and Rameez’s wedding last year and she is getting married to Pete this October!!! WAHOOO!
Y’all know how much we love our couples!!! and that means we LOVE their friends and family just as much!!! We are pretty much all family at this point! ;) Hearing that MaryKate is engaged is SO EXCITING and knowing that we will be photographing her and Pete’s wedding in October is even more exciting!!!
We had a blast hanging out with MaryKate and Pete (and little Sophie too) in Brooklyn NY! It is such a treat for us to photograph couples in places that have special meaning to them! MaryKate and Pete call Brooklyn home. This is their stomping grounds and no matter where life takes them, they will always hold Brooklyn close to their hearts!
MaryKate and Pete- Can’t wait to celebrate with you in October!!!
Casey and Alex are adventurers. They are dreamers and doers and have the stories to prove it! ;) They had a vision for their wedding day that included AMAZING food, good friends, and an intimate marriage celebration! They wanted to create an opportunity to share their love of adventure with their closest family and friends! And they did just that… and so much more!
Casey and Alex made their dream wedding day a reality! They listened to their hearts and planned the wedding that was absolutely perfectly them in Fiesole, Italy! Their closest family and friends traveled from around the world (literally… New Zealand, Germany, Mexico, Alaska, Arkansas, Alabama, etc.!). They gathered around the romantic candlelit tables at Castello di Vincigliata to enjoy the most delicious meal we have ever enjoyed at a wedding! Multiple courses of the finest tasting Italian menu was perfectly paired with wine! The dinner lasted about three hours and it was DELIGHTFUL! It was so AMAZING to take a moment to look around and see Casey and Alex’s closest family and friends enjoying conversation and relaxing in celebration of Casey and Alex’s marriage! That is definitely one thing about the Italian culture we would love to bring back to the states! ;) Why not have a 3 hour delicious meal and then dance the night away into the wee hours of the morning?!?! ;) No need to rush… their reception ended at 1:30 a.m.! It was a good night for sure!!!
Ohh and did we mention the caterers made the wedding cake right in front of the guests about 5 minutes before they served it?!?! How AMAZING is that?! Such a treat and incredible experience to witness!
Casey and Alex… your wedding was truly dreamy! You got married in a CASTLE in Italy surrounded by your closest family and friends who were there to celebrate YOU and your marriage! How incredible is that?!? Thank you for dreaming that dream and making it a reality! We love your adventurous spirit and we can’t wait to hear all of the AMAZING stories to come from your adventures ahead! We love you guys and are SO GRATEFUL that you included us in capturing your memories! Thank you! Happy Honeymooning in Paris!!! ;) XOXO!
Huge THANK YOU to all of the AMAZING wedding professionals who came together to make Casey and Alex’s Italy wedding a reality!
I will never forget the day Casey sent us an email to say she and Alex were planning a wedding in Italy! We were sitting at our kitchen table. I was busy tackling our email box and Casey’s email came in. Instead of planning a DC wedding like they had originally planned, they decided to follow their hearts and plan their dream wedding in Italy instead. My productivity officially ended at that moment! ;) Casey and I exchanged emails the rest of the day! and they were so full of !!!!!!! and ;) :) :) ;) ;) that I was just hoping she didn’t think I was crazy! ;)
Photographing a wedding in Italy has been a dream of ours for so so so long! We blogged about that dream way back in 2010! At the time that dream came into our hearts, we had absolutely no idea just how AMAZING it would be! Casey and Alex made our dreams even more magical than we ever could have imagined!
Looking back on Casey and Alex’s intimate wedding week in Italy, we honestly could not imagine it in any other way! We will be sharing their wedding photos super soon! (Honestly, we CANNOT WAIT!!! ;) They are some of our favorite photos we have ever captured!!!)
But first, their INCREDIBLE engagement session! We snuck away with Casey and Alex for a morning engagement session in Florence, Italy. With so many of their closest family and friends in town, Casey and Alex had been running around non-stop for a few days (ie. weeks ;) ) making sure everyone had the time of their lives! (Let’s be honest, they already had given everyone an excuse to travel to Italy and celebrate with them… they didn’t have to do anything else! ;) But, the sweet friends that they are and their southern hospitality roots, they were running around making sure everyone was taken care of!) It was such a treat to steal them away for a bit and give them some time to just be! To do what they love… explore a beautiful city, grab a sweet treat from their favorite Florence bakery, and soak each other in! ;)
Casey and Alex, you two make our hearts sing!!!!! Thank you for being fabulously YOU and making our dreams come true by giving us the opportunity to capture your love in ITALY! ;)
Seeing your friends so happily in love, with smiles that radiate, is probably one of the best feelings ever! (Especially when you can say that you introduced them! ;) )!
We met up with Karen and Brendon during our travels in Europe! We just happened to be crossing through the Rhein region of Germany at the same time! How AMAZING is that?!? The idea of hanging out with these friends while enjoying some wineries in Germany is pretty much dreamy! ;) So, we made it happen!
We did a mini Anniversary session while exploring the Schloss Vollrads Castle and Winery together! And I am so glad we did because their smiles and happiness probably brought us just as much happiness as it did them! ;) Smiles on friends = really happy hearts all around! ;)
Karen and Brendon- love you guys! Thanks for sharing your happiness with us in Johannisberg, Germany! ;) XOXO!
Way back in 2013, we received the sweetest email from Renee! Renee was one of my first-year residents when I was an RA at Bucknell University during my senior year (which was quite a few years ago!)… so you can imagine how excited I was to hear from her! She had been following along on our blog (which makes our hearts so excited to hear!) and she sent us a note to say hi!!! It was such a delight to hear from her! However, the best part of her email was her life update…
…As for myself, I have also made a bit of leap in the past year. After graduating from Bucknell – I started working at Merck pharma in NJ and lived in Hoboken. Although I loved living in Hoboken and getting to know NYC, after about 2 years I decided I needed to try a new adventure. So, in January I transferred to our company’s site in the Netherlands. I now live in the relatively small city of Nijmegen near the German border of the Netherlands. And what is most AMAZING about the story is that in the process, I met a dutch colleague who has now become my amazing boyfriend! I truly believe that sometimes life requires big jumps to have great things happen – very much what your life motto says!
Ahh! I have goosebumps just re-reading that!!! It makes my heart so happy to see Renee following her heart and seeing that beautiful smile on her face! I am so beyond proud of her! She is now engaged to that “dutch colleague,” Joost! ;) And we are so incredibly honored to be able to photograph this amazing time in their lives together!!!
We met up with Renee and Joost in their sweet city of Nijmegen in The Netherlands! What a special treat! Their hospitality was incredible and it was so much fun to explore with them! We felt right at home the entire time and absolutely LOVED hanging out with them!
Renee and Joost! Thank you so much for your AMAZING hospitality and for sharing Nijmegen with us! We had a blast and could not be more happy for you and your love! Thank you for following your hearts and being such a beautiful example of living out our favorite motto: “Life is an Adventure, make it AMAZING together!”
