From Emma to Emmi: portraits

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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Chasing Cars - Final Portraits

While the party raged on in the reception, our photographer stole Matt and I away for a few more portraits. There is an antique car/wagon that is set up specifically for pictures, so we took advantage and got some really pretty shots. I had really hoped that we would be able to get some pictures around some of the other cars and in some other "scenes" around the museum, but it just didn't happen. We'd discussed all of this with our photographer when we met with her before the wedding, but she ended up being sick the day of our wedding, so we had replacement photographers. They were good, and took beautiful pictures, but we didn't get everything we'd hoped for. Oh well. On to the pictures we did get...

I kind of wish the photographer had reminded me to change into my nice shoes

Finally, we headed back in to the reception and joined up with our friends.

photo from Karen

photo from Mish

photo from Steph

photo from Tammy

Sick of our ugly mugs yet? Good, cuz that's the last you'll see of us. Up next, I wrap up the recaps with all the details!

*All photos, unless otherwise noted, from Everlasting Images

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Chasing Cars - Trolleys and Antique Cars

Time for the bridal party to get to the museum! This might have been my favorite part of the whole day. Me, my newly-minted husband, and our closest friends. All stuck together, in the same place, and the same time.

photo from BM Tina

photo from BM Mel

We pulled up to the museum, dismissed the bridal party to enjoy the cocktail hour, and Matt and I went around the museum to get some couple portraits.

This was so awkward

Our reception was at the Antique Auto Museum. Part of the reason we chose that as our venue is because both of our dads are into antique cars. My dad owns a 1972 Porsche 911. And Matt's dad built an old Dodge Charger from the ground up. Neither one of us can remember the year, but it's old. My dad didn't drive his car to the reception, but Matt's dad did.

Isn't it beautiful?

We headed inside for a few more pictures.

Peek-a-boo!

In the meantime, our guests were busy milling around the museum and enjoying cocktail hour. The museum is a really cool place to have an event, and we had so many compliments from our guests about not being bored during the cocktail hour. [the next 7 photos are from our guests]

Hershey's version of the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile

My friend Karen, and her husband, Greg, who also happens to be my train conductor

Recognize that? Watch A League of Their Own and get back to me

Just at the end of cocktail hour, we gathered all of our guests together for a big group photo. The semantics of this could be a logistical nightmare, but we put out signs by the escort cards noting the time and location of the group photo, and we also had the DJ make an announcement to remind everyone to get there. I'm so glad we got this photo.

Up next, we get the party started!

*All photos, unless otherwise noted, courtesy of Everlasting Images

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Chasing Cars - Family and Friends

Once we ushered all our guests out of the church and over to the museum, it was time to (hopefully) breeze through our family and bridal party portraits. When we met with our photographer, we told her we wanted very few formal portraits taken. Just the bare necessities: us with my parents, us with my dad, us with Matt's parents, and us with our party. We preferred more informal, fun pictures. We wanted to hurry through them so that we'd get over to the museum to enjoy at least a few minutes of the cocktail hour. We...sort of got what we asked for. We ended up taking way more time at the church, but I don't think it was anyone's fault. We just underestimated how long things would take. That, or we were way too optimistic.

First, though, we had to get a picture with Pastor Cindy. She did such a great job with the ceremony, and we really felt we got a lot out of our premarital counseling with her. She kept it short and sweet but it brought up some things that we needed to talk about.

Then, it was time for my family.

Us with Mom and Jeff

Us with Dad, Sister Callie, and BIL Anthony

Then, Matt's family joined us.

Us with John and Nancy

L-R: Brother Mike, Pop Lou, John, Nancy, us, Brother Dan

A few portraits of us.

Our bridal party. We decided to do just the entire bridal party. None of me with the boys or him with the girls. Now I kind of wish we'd taken them, but...oh well.

Then we headed outside to take some fun pictures of the bridal party. It was October 23, which in Central PA, is typically in the upper 50s. On our wedding day, it was 72 degrees. And sunny. Absolutely perfect. Anyway, when we stepped outside of the church, our bridal party surprised us with a champagne toast!

I love these people.

We headed over to the other side of the trolley to take some pictures. We had so much fun with these.

Look at the ridiculous height of GM Matt

My husband, ladies and gentleman!

Once we'd finished taking pictures, the bridal party got on the trolley. Then waited for me and Matt while we took a few more portraits. These are some of our favorite pictures, and we blew one of them up to hang over our mantle.

This is the one we blew up

One of my favorites!

We stepped up and settled in for the ride over to the museum...

*All photos courtesy of Everlasting Images

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Chasing Cars - Bridal Portraits

We took bridal and bridal party pictures at the hotel and at the church. I'm really glad for the dual locations, because it gave us lots of options. Up first? Hotel...