JT and Carolyn

We couldn't wait to get home and start working on Carolyn and JT's wedding photos! We love shooting at "The Church" or "Babeville" or whatever it's being called these days.  Either way, it was a wonderful evening in a wonderful place we got to enjoy with a favorite couple of ours.

Alyssa headed downstairs with Carolyn to shoot some cool detail shots after we arrived. Carolyn and JT are artists, and the details of their wedding weren't lacking. Carolyn's shoes were, as she put it, the kind of shoes that come from the kind of store in NY that you can never actually afford to buy shoes from. And they worked perfectly with her (short!) repurposed wedding dress. She took her mother's dress and had it remade into an amazing wedding gown. The lace on the sleeves are all from the original and some of the lace on the bodice and back was new and matched the original perfectly.

I was hanging out with JT in the balcony, waiting for Carolyn so we could sortof engineer a "first look." JT and Carolyn had planned to see each other before the ceremony, but they still wanted to have a fun reveal and it totally worked. You can really see how excited they both are - no encouragement from us necessary!

JT checking out the AMAZING dress...

And then we rocked a mini wedding-day couple shoot! Carolyn put a lot of thought into the details of the wedding and really went for a "Mad Men" kind of of style - so I got a touch old-school with some of our processing. 

More from inside the church:

And into Hallwalls!

JT is a really talented musician and composer and we were treated to some marimba compositions by a friend of his, including a transposition by some Bach (I think?)  by the groom. Alyssa and I were both shutter-dragging...

This is one of my favorite shots from our first look at the wedding photos. We knew it was going to be really dark in the former sanctuary, so we had some stobes in strategic locations that let us do some fun things with spot-lighitng...

The is apropos of nothing - but we just love places with balconies for shooting - how else can you get a top-down shot of the perfectly set tables? 

Carolyn absolutely glowed during the ceremony - she and JT have been together for a long time now, and you could just see all the tension and pressure of the wedding day melt away in her smile.

Their first dance was so sweet...

Here' s a fun wide-angle of the Church from the balcony while the wedding guests were bellying up to the buffet...

And then some cake...

And some dancing :)

Awesome, Awesome wedding JT and Carolyn!

Courtney and Cory

The scene was "Babeville," as it is now known...and down in the basement, next to the hulks of now-defunct boilers and crazy colors of paint on the new walls, we found ourselves shooting another great couple with Buffalo in their hearts.

When we walked in, the first thing I noticed was Cory looking over his vows cheatsheet. I was really touched at his last-minute changes...that's one determined groom who wants everyone to know it.

And this is Courtney, who was working out some last-minute nerves.

Cory wasn't nearly as relaxed as he looks here, either. It was definitely a case of two people who really, really could not wait to be married as we got closer to the ceremony time.

After the ceremony we got the chance to do some portrait work with the "C's"

And then it was party time...

Wow - another great wedding...Thank you again, guys, and we can't wait to show you the rest of your photos!