[corey and kevin]

 Buffalo is a very small, very tight community, indeed, and sometimes I feel like I am participating in some sort of six degrees of Kevin Bacon game.

I met Corey and Kevin just before Kara and Jay's wedding last summer.  Corey was one of Kara's bridesmaids but in addition to their connection,  I had met Kevin way back at Ellen and Dennis' wedding (a wedding that predates this blog). Kevin is Dennis' brother.  And for those of you who have been following my blog for awhile, Ellen and Dennis started it all- I feel like I have been a part of their family for a very long time, through weddings like Leah and Matt, Bridget and Andrew, Julie and Jeff, Tim and Johanna, Katie and Bob, (and I should mention that Ellen's parents were at Ann and Brian's wedding just the week before!)....the list goes on and on!  And this wedding sort of summed all of that up.  Of course what makes weddings so enticing to photograph for me is all of the eye candy, but what stays with me when I get home after a long day of photographing all of this pretty stuff is the human connection that is so strong at a wedding like this.  I love to see families at their happiest, and that was ever-present on that day.  

Corey's uncle was instrumental in kicking off the restoration at Buffalo's Central Terminal, so we had special access to the space for some photos...
























Maybe my most favorite ring shot ever?












Dennis and Kevin were hysterical, they could have entertained everyone all night.



And when all was said and done, I had taken more photos than ever (this us the summer for it, somehow) and all the while I felt right at home.  Thanks for including me, Corey and Kevin!

[ann and brian, the wedding.]

I'm a little backlogged, so this is going to be a busy week!  A three-blog week, if you will. Ann and Brian were married back in June, and had a fabulous day... here's a little preview!

[henry and ashley]

So it is true, I am cutting back on weddings.  A lot.  Not that I don't absolutely adore photographing beautiful people and things all day long, it's just that other things are filling my life as quickly as anything, or maybe it's that life has a way of slipping by a little bit faster everyday.  I kept this in mind last summer while booking for this year, but when my neighbor mentioned to me that his friend was having a vintage barn wedding, I begged him, literally, to mention my name to the bride.  And thankfully, I can now say that I have photographed my dream wedding.  Just about everything at this wedding was handmade.  By the BRIDE.  And there were succulents.  In concrete.  And Pimm's Cups.  And odd little mason symbols in the bathroom of the house, but that's for another day.  And so because it is my dream wedding, I am definitely about to overshare.  It helps too that the couple was super amazingly adorable (remember?) and that everything was a perfect reflection of them.

The wedding took place in Cassadaga, about 8 miles or so outside of Fredonia, only about an hour from Buffalo.