Intimate Wedding at the Historic Oakland Mansion (MD)

From the brides: We originally met our freshman year of high school at Western Senior High School in Baltimore City. We had freshman gym together and bonded over skipping class to hang out on the outside tennis courts. While there Ash taught me (the girl brought up on hip-hop and Motown) to play air guitar and when I was proficient she upgraded me to guitar on the school tennis rackets. She also became responsible for my love of Nirvana and Kurt Cobain. We lost touch after that year (we are both pretty sure we never had another class together) and pretty much the next 10 years or so. Ash was always one of those major memories I had from high school though and I was one of her only ones (she blocked out much of high school). Years later she found me on myspace and we became friends, then like most of the world, we migrated over to Facebook. On Facebook, we discussed life and God and lots of stuff and that’s where the “more than friends” started.

We got engaged in April of 2013. One day while talking to Katiera it came up that Janeen thought that I would never propose and that she would be the one to propose. That conversation let me know that she had always wanted to be proposed to and from there Katiera and I started plotting and planning the details of the proposal. I came up with this awesome plan to propose at this LGBT theater during one of the plays. However, as is my personality, I went out and got the ring a couple of days later and before the theater company could respond … I proposed a couple days later after we finished watching “Life of Pi” on demand. It was very touching and seemed to be about valuing life and the moment and so… I walked out of the room and Janeen asked what I was doing and I told her, “about to change your life” and when she turned around I got down on one knee and asked her to marry me…. She said yes.

Get inspire and check our this beautiful wedding below, as beautifully captured by  Robin Shotola Photography.

Location: Columbia, MD
Event Date: July 05, 2014
Venue: Historic Oakland Mansion
Shoes: Nine West
Shoes: Timberland
Caterer: Historic Oakland Mansion
Cake Designer: Sugar Bakers Cakes
Reception Venue: Historic Oakland Mansion
Photographer: Robin Shotola Photography