Pammy & Chris got married a couple weekends ago and I think the National Aquarium in Baltimore may just be one of my new favorite places to shoot! The wedding was a blast and the locations were a dream for any photographer!

Pammy found these little jeweled letters and had them attached to each bouquet for the name of each bridesmaid.

I love that she wore these fantastic turqouise shoes with her white wedding dress!

Pammy’s maid of honor, Katie, looked on as they were putting on the final touches…

Hehe, what can I say about this shot? Words are a little silly to try to add to this!

So, before you see photos of Chris, you have to understand that to say Chris has a quirky sense of humor is such an understatement (more on this later). Chris is a hoot and he definitely has a flair for anything comically unusual.

During the “first look,” where Chris and Pammy saw each other for the first time all ready for their wedding, I told Chris to face forward as Pammy came down the stairway behind him. Usually, once the bride reaches her groom, the groom turns and exhibits some sort of happiness and emotion. Chris had a bit of fun with this process in refusing to look at Pammy when she reached his side. She stood there for a few moments and spoke to him while he just stared straight forward. However, even he couldn’t help but break into a huge grin when she stepped in front of him and he saw her in her wedding gown.

We had a great time taking pictures around town – first stop was an old carousel right by the harbor, where the attendent was SO nice to shoo all the kids off of the carousel for a few minutes while we grapped some photos.

Next stop was the American Visionary Art Museum. This place is fantastic! I’d never been here before and I highly recommend that if you haven’t been, you go immediately!

Everybody makes fun of the jumping pictures, but I gotta admit, they do have a certain something

And on to the Aquarium. The lighting is so low and mysterious there – we had GREAT fun with the video light!

As we raced back to the ceremony site, running a few minutes behind, we were walking around and around and around the ramps by the shark tanks and we paused for a quick moment to grab this shot. Pammy and Chris had an audience of very large fishes

The ceremony and reception were in the Knott Harbor View Room and the view was amazing!! The ceremony was right at sunset and the lights of Baltimore behind them were seriously magical.

A few details from the reception – gorgeous! Pammy came up with the whole design scheme herself and really could not have done a better job!

See that mischevious grin on Chris’ face? Everyone knew what he was going to do. And I don’t know if he and Pammy had discussed this part of the cake cutting in advance, but first, she gave him a knowing look, as she gently held out a piece of cake for him to bite…..

….and he responded by very slowly and deliberately smashing cake into Pammy’s face. But, it was done with love ;P

And then the party got started!

And a good time was had by all!

Remember how I mentioned earlier that there would be more on Chris’ quirky sense of humor later? Well, here it is. It isn’t every wedding reception that ends with the groom and groomsmen parading in Frankenstein, pirate and ninja costumes. And to top it off, there was an enormous set of shark jaws for them to pose in – how fitting! Congratulations Pammy & Chris!

Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of taking a very scenic trip out to Fort Lewis Lodge in Millboro, VA. It’s absolutely gorgeous out there and the weather couldn’t have been more beautiful for Melissa & John’s wedding!

This sign was not kidding around – the food was amazing!

You may remember Cynthia & Jon’s engagement shoot from just a little while ago – they went right from engaged to married (on my blog anyways!) when they got hitched a couple weeks ago at the Willard in DC.

The day was hot, but the hotel was so cool and beautiful! I LOVED all the big, bright windows and colorful walls in the room where Cynthia got ready with her mother, sister, friend and sister-in-law to be.

Jon & Cynthia had a moment on the stairs before heading out for some shots around town.

A friend of mine who is new to the photography industry was along for the day, so there were three photographers at once for awhile. But you wouldn’t know from the images of these two – they were just so happy and easy-going!

Cynthia got teary walking up the aisle with her parents….

The reception in the Willard Room was absolutely gorgeous! They had uplighting on all the pillars and everything just had this romantic glow to it. It really couldn’t have been more beautiful. It really topped the whole scene out when Cynthia and Jon actually sang their first dance song to each other as they sashayed about – they were so happy!

Parting shot of the night – may we all end every day as happy as these two felt at this moment!

I am normally not big on “themed” weddings, but Crystal & Matt have shown me how great a theme can be when you do it right!

These two (you may remember their engagement session that I blogged in early May) just got hitched last weekend at the most oustanding location – the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay – right near the water! It was a beautiful day for July – slightly overcast with a great breeze off the bay.

Crystal is just absolutely gorgeous. The theme of the wedding was sort of a Hollywood-style vintage glam and it was fabulous! Crystal has amazing clear ivory skin and long, thick dark hair and she chose the most spectacular dress – she looked stunning.

The dress was white, but I love the pink shoes!!

I’m so far behind blogging the weddings I’ve shot!  I was going to just do one post with my five favorite images from each wedding, but I just can’t choose.  I’m one of those people who can’t go to Baskin Robins because 31 flavors is too many to choose from – it will take me 3 hours to reach any kind of decision.  I do best with limited options

So, here are my fourteen favorite images from Jill & Steve’s wedding!  They are such a cute couple and high school sweethearts too!  They got hitched at the Thomas Birkby House in Manassas, VA in May – such a great venue.

I second shot for Jenni Green of Studio Diana – the weather was perfect and everyone was beautiful!

This is so cute – the bridesmaids were peeking through the bushes at the ceremony before they walked down the aisle.

The reception was a lot of fun – GREAT band!  Having a band sure does make the party!  Jill & Steve had the Jangling Reinharts – great guys!

I love this shot of one of the groomsmen catching the garter in mid-air

This poor girl!  All she did was catch the bouquet and now here she is in the middle of the entire reception with a stranger sliding a garter up her leg.  She looks like she doesn’t mind too much though