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BASED IN IRWIN, PA
serving the Pittsburgh, PA area
CONTENT CREATOR & PHOTOGRAPHER
.. if you missed Part 1 – make sure you go back and catch up there first! As soon as I had gotten out of the car in the parking lot of The Midwife Center, I could feel myself “leaking”. Newsflash: your water doesn’t just “break” & you get a “gush” as a one-time deal, you continue...
One of the things I did immediately in the days following Braelynn’s birth was sit down & write out her birth story – every detail I could possibly remember (that was still super fresh in my mind) of the beginning of her story. I choose to handwrite her story and it filled something like 13...
.. if you missed Part 1 – make sure you go back and catch up there first! We arrived at the ER, made fun of my Mom for trying to back into the parking spot, and walked into the hospital to check in. They wheeled me up to the labor & delivery floor and I...
[So – I’ve had several people ask to hear Braelynn’s birth story & inspired by Kristen Leigh & Jessica Shae (who happened to both be my wedding photographers) and their writing their birth stories on their blogs – I decided to go ahead and publish my story. Happy reading!] I assumed that baby girl would be late. That’s what...
Hi! I'm Kara!
Welcome to my blog!
I'm a Pittsburgh-based wedding photographer and wedding content creator with a love for storytelling, both on wedding days and beyond.
I've been part of the wedding industry since 2009, documenting 250+ wedding days and helping couples preserve the moments, big and small, that make their day uniquely theirs.
When I'm not working a wedding, you'll probably find me creating videos for my personal YouTube channel, The Adventuring Abbeys, where my family and I share our love of amusement parks, roller coasters, and travel.
Around here, you'll find wedding inspiration and behind-the-scenes content, family adventures, amusement park visits, travel stories, and a little bit of everyday life.
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Kara Abbey is based in Irwin, Pennsylvania and regularly works in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, but she has her passport and is available for travel worldwide!
[…] that I have a 1-year-old!! It literally seems like just a few weeks ago that we were driving to the Midwife Center in Pittsburgh to meet this little dude! I am simply in denial that it’s been a full year since that glorious day when we met our sweet […]
[…] .. keep on reading by clicking here & going to PART 2! […]
[…] *If you’d like a trip down memory lane, you can go back & see past “birthday” (I put it in quotes, because that encompasses the half-birthday photos I do in the summer too) posts here: 3 1/2 Update, 3 Years old, 2 1/2 Update, 2 Years old, 1 1/2 Update, 1 Year old, Leander’s birth story Part 1 & Part 2. […]