Weddingbee Blog

In the second of three installments about Tim and Shannon’s wedding, we have the reception and a couple portraits (the final part will be all the DIY and detail goodies). The reception was held at Soldiers and Sailors museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, right across the street from where Mr. Pineapple and I first met. It was a really cool location, complete with cannons and Abe Lincoln.

A few days before the wedding, Mingwei and I (who shot our rehearsal dinner and was one of the photogs at our wedding) scoped out some portrait locations. The weather report was calling for rain so we knew there was a good chance we would have to take most, if not all of the photos indoors. My favorite spot ended up being a tiny hallway with nothing more than a couple chairs and a lamp.

We also did a couple shots outside, quickly.

And some in the stairwell.

Timmy said he loved Abe Lincoln, so we snuck away and took this photo in one of the museum’s little rooms.

Where we caught Timmy’s mom, hiding away from the chaos for a minute or two.

While we were running around taking photos, guests were filtering in for the cocktail hour.

You know how kids dressed like grown-ups are amazingly adorable? Well, these two kids were also amazingly hard to photograph. Anytime they would see me point my camera at them they would run and hide behind someone’s leg… or a column… or wiggle their noses and disappear…

.. unless the groom caught one of them!

The bride and groom’s entrance was very lively, complete with a towel wave rivaling the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The couple’s first dance was wonderful. You could tell they definitely put a lot of work into making it special. (Which also made it difficult to photograph without being intrusive.)

Next up was time for everyone to hit the dance floor. Even though I couldn’t dance myself, being on the dance floor was a blast. Her guests were so lively, my cheeks hurt from laughing.

The young man in green was all over the dance floor. Watch out ladies, ten years from now this one will be a heartbreaker.

Do you plan on there being a lot of dancing at your reception or are your guests more of the mingling types?