John & Kimberly Wedding

A couple months ago, I had the privilege of shooting John & Kimberly's wedding with my wonderful second shooter husband :) I was asked to do the wedding by Kimberly's daughter, a friend of ours. The wedding took place in Lancaster City on a beautiful Saturday afternoon. Here are some of my favorites from the day.

 

Cruising the Caribbean

The last thing I want by the time March rolls around every year is more snow and cold weather. By then, I'm just itching for warmer temperatures and signs of Spring. Of course, living in the Northeast, I don't usually get my wish very often. However, this year I was fortunate enough to completely escape the frigid March weather and head south for a week of relaxing in the Caribbean on a big Holland America cruise ship. One of my hubby's relatives organized a family cruise, which frankly, is a fantastic idea if you're wondering. And how could it not be totally great? We stopped at 4 different islands, ate tons of delicious food, swam and snorkeled in the clearest blue water I've ever seen, and soaked up a week straight of beautiful sunshine :) It was the best March vacation I've ever had. And coincidentally, it happened to fall right around Matt's and my 6-month wedding anniversary, so it was almost like a second honeymoon! Anyway, here are just a few of my favorite shots from the week. Just looking at them makes me want to go back :)

Dining table flowers.

Plenty of places to kick your feet up and relax.

Beautiful islands.

I've never been on a boat that big before, and I'm pretty sure I would've gotten lost if it weren't for my wonderful navigator husband :) 

And we had to get in at least one cute shot of the two of us :) 

Brian & Melody

Last July, Matt and I had the opportunity to do pictures for the wedding reception of a friend of mine from college. Melody and Brian had a destination wedding in the Dominican Republic, and then came back home to have a reception for the rest of their friends and family in Allentown. It was held in the beautiful Hamilton Room of the Allentown Brew Works.

The theme was island beachy, which was appropriate after their destination wedding in the DR. And the dessert table was filled with fun, delicious treats.

But I think my favorites from the day were of the happy couple's first dance.

New Orleans Wedding Weekend

Last May, Matt and I took a nice little 20-hour road trip down to New Orleans to see our friends Nate & Jill get married. We were fortunate enough, through Nate and Jill's connections down there, to be able to stay in the New Orleans YWAM house, which was awesome. The day of the wedding, we had a little time to kill before the ceremony, so we ventured over to the French Quarter, since Matt had never been there before. We had a nice lunch in a huge hotel right along the river, which is where I snapped this shot of my then-fiance :) 

These were the lovely flowers on our lunch table...

 ....and around the hotel.

We checked out the street performers in the French Quarter....and this guy was pretty good.

And these were a few of my favorites from the beautiful wedding.

Nissley Vineyard

A year and a half ago, Matt and I decided to take a little visit to Nissley Vineyard. It was a beautiful Fall Sunday afternoon, so we took our time going through the self-guided tour. Here were some of my favorite shots along the tour.

Shawn & Shelby Wedding

After doing Shawn & Shelby's engagement pictures, I had the pleasure of being a second shooter at their wedding in September of 2009. The ceremony and reception took place at the beautiful Hans Herr House, south of Lancaster City. The weather was perfect and so was the wedding :)

They decorated the yard with these festive bows and mason jars filled with candles, which also helped light the path to the reception tent once it got darker out in the evening.

 I loved the colors of this wedding :)

It was such a sweet ceremony.

And they pulled off the dip kiss quite well :) 

 

The ring bearer was so cute, I couldn't resist snapping some extra shots of him :) 

 

 

Beautiful Southern Lancaster County, lit by torches.