Villanova Center, Radnor, PA Wedding {Briana and Chris}

Briana and Chris are married! We first met the happy couple last fall when we shot their engagement photos and have been excited for their wedding day ever since. The day was full of surprises, as this Halloween-weekend wedding fell on the night of the big snowstorm. They gracefully managed the challenges that the storm presented and were completely peaceful through it all, enjoying every moment of their big day.

Thank you to Kim of Daneene Jensen Associates for doing a fabulous job with Briana’s hair and makeup.

Briana, could you be more beautiful? Seriously, you are a gorgeous bride.

While Paul was photographing Briana and the ladies, our second shooter Francis was photographing Chris and the guys.

Briana and Chris tied the knot at St. David’s Episcopal Church in Wayne, PA.

Briana was escorted down the aisle by both her mother and father.

Yay! It’s official!!

What a lovely couple. Briana and Chris, you two are perfect together.

We have amazing brides. And they have amazing friends. As I said earlier, they were completely peaceful and joyful all day and even had fun venturing out into the snow.

These bright colored autumn leaves sprinkled with snow made for some great memories.

This is probably my favorite from the day. Some photographers could’ve looked at Mother Nature’s little snowstorm as a big stumbling block, but Paul really used the snow to their advantage and captured Briana and Chris in a way that wouldn’t have been possible without the storm. In Briana’s words the day was “perfectly imperfect” and I couldn’t agree more.

Briana and Chris’ reception was held at the Villanova Conference Center. During the cocktail hour, suddenly the DJ’s speakers went silent and all the lights shut off. Luckily the hotel had a generator and the wonderful staff quickly worked to run extension cords to provide power to the DJ. And this was vitally important as Briana was set on dancing up a storm the whole night. Once the power went out it was candle light only. Hows that for romantic? The rest of the night went off without a hitch, the power came back on towards the end of the evening, and the guests were able to stay in warm rooms while the snow continued to fall outside.

Their first dance as husband and wife.

Due to the loss of the power their DJ, Taz Sellers of Silver Sound DJs, kindly offered his phone to light the Maid of Honor’s speech.

Briana told Chris that he had to sing to her at their wedding…right after they met. So he did, singing Making Memories of Us by Keith Urban. When Paul told me that, I almost started to cry. Which either means I’m a sap or Chris has already got this husband thing down.

They had a little fun feeding each other cake. But no worries, there were no major casualties.

What a fun wedding! Seriously I don’t think I’ve ever posted so many dancing pictures. I think I need to invite you all to our next party…

So I said our couples and their friends are awesome earlier in the post… now they just got even more points in my book! Not only do I love dancings, as they clearly do, but I also love line dancing!