One Crazy Weekend!

Saturday was a nice, relatively easy day. Around noon we left for Uniontown to shoot Shelby and John’s wedding video. The church the wedding took place in was so nice and spacious and the minister’s sermon was beautiful. Their reception was at the Summit Inn, a very luxurious venue in Farmington. Shelby was such a sweetheart and really made us feel at home. I also have to comment on the cake. That was the biggest and most beautiful wedding cake I have ever seen. It must have stood 4 feet tall - it was just unreal! Here’s a pic of just the top three layers.

As relaxing as Saturday was, Sunday was pure craziness! Yesterday was easily my most hectic day as a photographer. The past few weeks, I’ve had so many people contacting me about having portraits shot in the fall to take advantage of the gorgeous Western Pennsylvania foliage. The bad thing is - we only have about 2 weeks where the leaves are “peaking” and look great in photos and I ended up scheduling 4 shoots in one day to work around the time issue. Clearly, I’ve lost my mind.The day kicked off at 11am when I met Kia and Ian at Lake Somerset to shoot their engagement portraits. Kia had emailed me a few months ago to see if I was available to shoot her wedding. I was open for that day, but their wedding will take place near Lancaster, PA which is a few hours from my home in Friedens. While I do travel occasionally, go that far is very difficult, especially when I’m unfamiliar with the location so I unfortunately had to decline. The good thing was she still wanted me to shoot their engagement photos and they were willing to come to Somerset County to have them done. They’re such a cool couple and here are two of my favorite pics from their session!

After Kia and Ian headed home, I was scheduled to meet Michelle and Chuck at 1pm. Michelle booked me a few weeks ago and I’ll be shooting their wedding next October. It’s always great to do a shoot with couples before their wedding day and I had a blast working with these two! We stopped by a few of my favorite locations and got some killer photos. Chuck even had me take some shots beside his car - and let me tell you it’s one sweet ride! Check out the pics and I bet you’ll agree.

As soon as their shoot ended, it was time for us to head to Berlin to shoot a family portrait at 3pm. A few weeks ago I had shot senior portraits for cousins Erik and Kristen. During that time, I learned that they have 12 other cousins and their mothers said how nice it would be to get all the grandchildren together to take some group photos. I was fairly intimidated as I’ve never shot a group that large, but I wanted to help the family out and agreed to give it a shot. While it’s hard to do a lot of creative shots with 14 people, I think we still got some really cool family portraits. Here are my two favorite photos!

As soon as we finished up that shoot, we sped back to Somerset (thank goodness there weren’t any cops around!) to meet Christy and Chris for their engagement session. Christy had contacted me about a month ago in regards to her upcoming wedding. As fate would have it, the same day she contacted me, I had booked her date with another couple. I can’t tell you how many times that happens to me and it’s always frustrating. Christy was disappointed, as was I since their reception is here in Somerset, but she still wanted me to take her engagement portraits and I was happy to oblige. I had a lot of fun working with them both and here are a few of my favorite shots.

We wrapped up that shoot at around 7pm and I can’t tell you how relieved I was that the day was over. It was so stressful and I was constantly worried about being late/missing an appointment. Fortunately everything went off without a hitch and it turned out to be one of my most productive days yet. But I still don’t think I’ll be scheduling 4 shoots in one day again any time soon. =)