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BASED IN IRWIN, PA
serving the Pittsburgh, PA area
CONTENT CREATOR & PHOTOGRAPHER
I have never made a hard push toward selling wedding albums within my business. I take my sample albums to my meetings with brides & grooms, I let them see them, touch them, look thru them, feel how heavy they are – and I simply let the books sell themselves. Is that the very best...
I had a crazy dream last night – I dreamed that my house was on fire. In my dream, Braelynn was safely outside and I was running back into the house to get Leander. I had him in my arms and I was running thru the smoke to get outside. As I was heading from...
My Mom & Dad have one (yes: ONE) wedding photo hanging in their house.It’s hanging in the living room – it’s a nice, large, matted print of my Mom & Dad standing at the alter. It’s the formal shot: my Dad is wearing a grey tux with tails & my Mom is decked out in...
Is there anything better than a gorgeous, white leather, 10×10 wedding album? Yep: two parent albums to go along with it! Earlier this summer, Derrick & I photographed Josh & Bonnie’s fabulous Antonelli Event Center Wedding here in Irwin, PA and a few weeks after I delivered their photos, Bonnie let me know she was...
When I built my photography business, I purposefully fashioned it around what I would want as a bride. I hate salesy-things. I hate pushy car salesmen, sticky telemarketers, and shifty door-to-door dealers. Anything that looks or smells like a “pyramid scheme” makes me nervous and most multi-level marketing business models scare me. The last thing ever...
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!
[…] album is 100% completely different from the wedding albums I create for my brides & grooms. My wedding albums are leather bound, they lay flat, and are made up of hard, thick pages. They are definitely a luxury product & are a much different quality than this album from […]