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BASED IN IRWIN, PA
serving the Pittsburgh, PA area
CONTENT CREATOR & PHOTOGRAPHER
I have a confession to make: As a wedding photographer and content creator, I have received a lot of wedding inquiries over the last few years from email addresses that are obviously dedicated wedding accounts. Something like KaraAndDerrickWedding@gmail.com. And honestly? I get it. Creating a dedicated wedding email address sounds like a fantastic idea. All...
I checked my weather app the morning of a recent wedding and it told me, very confidently, “0% chance of precipitation.” Guess what?It poured. Not a light drizzle either. A full on, run-for-cover, “welcome to Pittsburgh” downpour, right in the middle of the day my app promised would be dry. And here’s the thing: I...
Story time! Once upon a time, I photographed a super sweet couple’s wedding day.(I promise you, this particular wedding was like 10 years ago, so it’s no one within recent memory.) After the ceremony, we had one hour (cocktail hour) to take all the “traditional” portraits: family, bridal party, and bride and groom. If a...
As a wedding photographer – I obviously attend a lot of weddings. (Can I get a “DUH!”)And (as a wedding photographer who attends a lot of weddings) I have quite a long list of stories I could tell about wedding GUESTS. Which got me thinking: I should write a blog post about how to be...
One of my longest and dearest friends made the comment the other day that she’d been a wedding photographer for 17 years.And for some reason, that number really caught me off-guard: 17 years?! Aren’t we just 17 years old? (that’s about how old we were when we met each other!) And it got me thinking:...
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.
I'm so glad you're here!
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LOCATION
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!