This was such a special wedding for us to shoot! I grew up with Ryan’s family — his dad is our dearly-loved pastor, his sister is one of my dearest friends, Ryan is my brother’s close friend, and their whole family just feels like family to us — so it was an incredible, incredible honor […]

Erica and Mike are getting married in North Carolina later this year, but they contacted me for engagement photos before they left the Chicago area to move back east… and I’m so glad they did! What a fun, sweet couple!

I’m so thankful and honored to shoot weddings for absolutely wonderful couples, and Tracy and Omar were no exception! They are enthusiastic about LIFE, and care deeply about the people around them, and their wedding was a beautiful extension of those things. Take a look… **Omar and his groomsmen each wore a Sherwani — traditional […]

AH, Kohler and Vinnie’s wedding! It was such a pretty day, picture perfect sunshine and the most beautiful setting! We love these two so much, and it was such a joy to capture their wedding. Kohler and Vinnie are devoted to each other, and to their family. They bent over backwards to honor and include […]

These two are REFRESHING. I love Tracy and Omar, because what you see is what you get. They are honest and brave, kind and generous. Tracy is sassy and beautiful, Omar is a gentleman who loves his girl. We started our shoot at Cantigny, and finished in downtown Wheaton, so enjoy the variety! Loved this […]

Danielle and Dan’s wedding was a fantastic mix of big city Chicago flair and Danielle and Dan’s personal style. These two love their friends and family deeply. Danielle is a firecracker, full of energy and beauty and fun. She knows exactly what she wants (which made my job so much easier! “Danielle, how about this?” […]

Do you remember Dan and Angi? Angi is successful, driven, fashionable, beautiful, and Dan is her relaxed, funny, easygoing, gentle counterpart. They had a fantastic wedding party: twenty-two of their closest family and friends — such a great group of people, supporting and helping them as they begin their new life together. Angi was so […]

Danielle and Dan and I did this shoot back in early May, when everything was fresh and bright green and the weather was not-quite-summer warm. Danielle is a girl who knows what she loves, and she picked willows and sunshine for this shoot, which was just dreamy and lovely! I loved getting to know these […]

They met me in the financial district, crazy early on a Saturday morning, when the streets were empty and we could capture their dips and twirls right in the middle of the intersection without cars whizzing by. We hugged and swallowed coffee quick, and Kohler and Vinnie stood in front of the camera and showed […]

It’s freezing in Chicago tonight, so let’s rewind time back to August, when I met Dan and Angi at the crack of dawn right on Chicago’s lakefront. The weather was perfect: we had sunshine, haze, fog, and clouds, all in a matter of minutes, which gave this shoot a lot of depth and variety. And […]