The bride carried a bouquet of dahlias, orange tiger lilies, red parrot tulips, gerbera daisies, and calla lilies, provided by Blooms Florist.
Photography by Joanna Fassinger Photography
Autumn Pollock and Derek Kellogg met while they were students at Slippery Rock High School. One day, Derek offered Autumn (who was still riding the bus) a lift home, and almost seven years later, the couple was still together, but studying at separate colleges. While visiting home during her senior year, Derek took Autumn to dinner at Church Brew Works, on a carriage ride through Station Square, and ice skating at PPG Place. Derek next planned to go to the Point, but found that it was under construction. He decided they would walk across the Roberto Clemente Bridge instead, where he finally got the chance to drop to one knee. On their nine-year anniversary of dating, the couple said, “I do,” at Heinz Memorial Chapel. A Celtic bagpiper, George Balderose, led Autumn down the aisle, and when he moved to the side at the end, she caught sight of her husband-to-be. “The acoustics were phenomenal, and it gave me chills,” she says. The newlyweds held their reception with 180 guests at LeMont, where the bride surprised her Pittsburgh Penguins-fanatic husband with a Stanley Cup-shaped groom’s cake, made by Autumn Bupp of Autumn’s Cakes. For their first dance, Autumn, a former dancer, choreographed their moves to “Crush,” by Dave Matthews Band, which was DJed by Jodi Colella of Accents Unlimited LLC. “We felt like we were on Dancing With The Stars when the crowd was reacting and clapping for us,” she says. Autumn and Derek exited the reception to sparklers glowing, and enjoyed the next five days in The Finger Lakes in New York. — Ben Boskovich
