UPDATE: For photos of a real Hotel Monaco Pittsburgh wedding, check out Molly and Andy’s blog post here. Photos of their terrific details are here, and I also wrote about their wonderfully personal and moving ceremony here. It’s open! I’m so excited...
Yes, it’s cold out there. Really cold. It’s great weather to sit in front of a fire with a cup of hot coffee (or my favorite, a chai tea latte with a shot of espresso). Or, maybe, just maybe, if you’re a lover of cold weather, it’s also great...
Our boys, Leo and Jonas, were surprised to wake up early one Saturday morning and discover a dog in the house! What a surprise! They’d been asking again and again and hearing only a resounding “no.” After Marley, our German Wirehaired Pointer died,...
Whether you’re planning an engagement session or a wedding, or any other kind of photo shoot, one of the first decisions you have to make is where to go. On a wedding day, time is incredibly tight. Logistics, distance and travel time are critical. You’ll be faced with...
A few weeks ago on one of those warm, sunny October afternoons, I rode my bike from Washington’s Landing down to Point State Park. On the way back as I headed back to my car, I remembered that a past bride had mentioned the “stone steps at...
UPDATE, January 2015: It’s open! Check out photos of the hotel’s public spaces and ballrooms in this post about the Hotel Monaco Pittsburgh here. A brand new hotel is coming to downtown Pittsburgh: Hotel Monaco! Run by the San Francisco-based Kimpton hotel...
