I am so excited for Lauren and Chris’s wedding this coming September! They booked me last September and we had an incredible engagement shoot that I’m finally getting around to sharing! I was so excited about all the locations we had to explore, as well as the great light that day. It was quite chilly, but it looks warm so let’s just go with it!

Lauren is a knockout!

Chris and Lauren are so cute together. He moved from CT to Buffalo for her, aww!

Outfit change! The trees were just beginning to turn, and the sky was that amazingly crisp autumn blue.

Just being really ridiculously good looking. NBD.

And, saving my favorites for last… oh, that sun! We haven’t seen that thing in about 4 months so it’s really nice to get a refresher.

I was so excited when Rebecca and Mike booked me because I knew it meant I would get to hang out with them in February AND July! These two just wanted to get married asap, but wanted their reception in better weather so decided to hold off on the party until July. That meant the ceremony was a very small, intimate event, which I just love!
I headed down to Bristol Harbour, it was bitter cold and the wind was whipping the snow into little tornadoes in all the farm fields I passed. So pretty, but not exactly conducive to picture-taking! Except:

Boom!

These two were willing to brave the extreme cold and wind to get some shots of the incredible view at Bristol Harbour. So worth it! I’m obsessed with how the wind caught Rebecca’s gown.

So happy and so sweet together!

I finally let them back inside (that’s where I was shooting from. JK!) They made this lovely chuppah themselves!

Rebecca looked so pretty!

The ceremony was short and sweet.

Stay tuned for the reception in a few months! Can’t wait you two, congratulations!!

Ahhh, what a fantastic way to end the season and ring in 2013! I was so charmed by Ashley, Joey and Ashley’s mom Renate when we met in May to go over the details and timelines for their wedding… Ashley and Joey are so giddily in love and Renate is an Art professor at Cornell and was so excited about the photography. I really can’t say it enough- I love that I end up with so many creatives as my clients (Ashley is a dancer and choreographer!) Ashley and Joey met when Ashley moved to California and asked a friend to help her meet some new people. Ashley didn’t really know if it was a date, but when the two of them met they became pretty inseparable.

Ashley and Joey had planned a first look… they didn’t want to see each other but did want to talk a bit before they were dressed, so that led to this sweet, unplanned moment.

Ashley’s beautiful dress!

and shoes!

Such a wonderful day full of joy and emotion, so much fun to shoot!

Loved this first sight!

Facetiming with friends who couldn’t make it so cute!

So stinking cute!!!

Loved grandma’s reaction to the beautiful bride!

Ashley had an adorable cardigan and jacket, but decided to brave the cold (and giant clumps of roof ice that kept crashing to the ground) for a few shots as well!

The beautiful AD White House at Cornell…

Always love the views at Cornell!

Lovely Ashley!

I’m pretty sure there are no photos of these two not-grinning!

One of my favorite post-ceremony shots

Great toasts, and definitely the only time I’ve heard the phrase “sympathetic biography of Castro” at a wedding. Or ever. Let’s be real, ha ha.

I have to give Wedding MVP to Joey’s groomsman, he was going nuts on the dance floor. Fantastic!

I love this shot so much… he is clearly super impressed with her dance moves! That face says “damn, girl!” ha ha

Congratulations Ashley and Joey, I had a delightful time with you guys and your families and friends!!!

Shannon’s many southern family members were in for a bit of a shock coming up to Rochester for a December wedding! We’d had something like an inch of snow for the month, which is way below normal… then the week before we got almost two feet! Pretty hectic, but thankfully the majority of it didn’t come on the wedding day! I headed to photograph Shannon having her makeup done by the talented and sweet Tiffany Loveless.

Luckily everything was pretty close together on this snowy day! We made it to the church with plenty of time to spare. So pretty!

So happy together!

Lots of beautiful details at Max of High Falls thanks to Jimmy at Kittelberger’s and Angela and Aly at Out of the Ordinary!

Hooray piñata!

Aww, mother-son tears!

Another sweet mother-son photo!

Love it when venues have a place where I can shoot from above!

Congratulations Shannon and Jamie, it was a pleasure spending the day with you!

Oh me, oh my, what a stunning winter wedding! It seems rare to have beautiful fresh snow AND pretty sunset light at the same time. We were very lucky! I met up with Sarah at the Woodcliff Hotel and Spa. What a beautiful bride!

And a very cute flower girl too

The ceremony was at St. Paul of the Cross in Honeoye Falls.

So happy!

Even though it had just snowed the night before, Sarah and Joe were still gung-ho about doing pictures at Mendon Ponds. It was so perfect there! Beautiful light and bright white snow! So rad.

I was pretty much spazzing out the whole time we were shooting, I just couldn’t believe how pretty it was!

We headed to the delightful, cozy Rabbit Room to warm up and get the reception going… so many great details, and I just loved Sarah’s shoes!

Very sweet toast from Joe’s brother.

I just loved this private little gesture after Joe’s brother’s speech…

Everyone was pretty moved, including Sarah’s mom.

Joe is a huge fan of Texas swing, so they had music from the Skiffle Minstrels for the reception.

Calling a truce?

Gotta give wedding MVP to this guy, he was having the best time!

And of course have to finish it up with a shot out by the pretty Christmas lights at the Rabbit Room!

Congratulations you two, it was such a pleasure working together!!

A sunny day by the pool on a tropical island. A gray, chilly December day in upstate NY. The former is when they met, the latter is when they were married. Fortunately for all their guests, their sweetness and love for each other made it feel more like Puerto Rico than Rochester! The cozy, rustic warmth of the Rabbit Room didn’t hurt either!

We started out with portraits since the sun set an hour before the ceremony, Maryanne was a trooper in the cold! Hooray for Christmas lights!

Super cute together!

I’d like to thank the wind for some sweet veil action.

Maryanne also had a lovely shrug, I think winter brides get the best accessories!

A few details from around the Rabbit Room. I love this place so much. Lisa at Flower Power did an incredible job on the flowers, everyone was wowed!

The ceremony was just lovely. Jon and Maryanne’s vows were really moving.

I love this gesture… Jon trying to keep it together, Maryanne giving him an encouraging squeeze.

“We made it!”

Ha ha love these guys!

I’d like to introduce our wedding MVP… the guy was just having the best time.

And I <333 this picture!

Show em how it’s done Jon

And it all comes back to Christmas lights! Congratulations you guys, it was an honor to share the day with you!!