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Hi there! Welcome to the place where I write about stunning weddings, beautiful families, and my own journey. So glad you're here!

Hi, I'm Sherah!

Chicago based Wedding & Portrait Photographer

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Chicago is home to some of the best wedding venues, and I truly mean that. From iconic museums to lush gardens to skyline lofts, this city has a way of turning wedding days into something that feels both cinematic and deeply personal. As a photographer, I’ve had the chance to work at so many incredible spaces, […]

Best Chicago Wedding Venues: An Insider’s Guide

Bride and groom embrace in Chicago Art Institute gallery with large painting backdrop
Couple walking hand in hand along Chicago lakefront path at sunset with rocky shoreline.
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Chicago is my favorite city for engagement sessions—there, I said it!! I’ve photographed couples at some of the most beautiful places in the world, but there’s something about Sweet Home Chicago that makes me fall in love with it all over again every single time. Yes, we have that iconic skyline, but we also have […]

Best Engagement Photo Locations in Chicago (By Season)

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There’s a special kind of magic to a Field Museum engagement session in the fall. Golden light. Leaves glowing as we took photos in the gardens and around the museum. Alison is bubbly and fun and full of energey, and Ty is calm, warm, and unapologetically SO IN LOVE with her — together they just fit. They’re planning […]

Field Museum Engagement Session | Alison + Ty

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Rachel & Matt’s Langham Chicago Wedding Any Langham Chicago Wedding is sure to be incredible, but Rachel and Matt’s wedding celebration added an extra-gorgeous layer of beauty to this iconic Chicago landmark. It wasn’t just the stunning florals, or their elaborate chuppah, or Rachel’s classic Lis Simon gown. Rather, it was this family’s evident love […]

A Langham Chicago Wedding | Rachel + Matt

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Gabby & Jake’s LM Studio Chicago Wedding I’m not quite sure where to start when it comes to Gabby and Jake’s LM Studio Chicago wedding! These two have been making plans and dreaming dreams about this date for quite awhile (and their wedding date was memorable to me because it was my dad’s birthday!). On […]

LM Studio Chicago Wedding | Gabby + Jake

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Dori & Eddy’s Chicago Botanic Garden Engagement Session I always love to pitch Chicago Botanic Garden to my couples as the perfect location for engagement photos! It’s such a bright, beautiful, picture-perfect location, with gorgeous places to wander everywhere you turn! So when Dori and Eddy picked it for their engagement session, I was THRILLED. […]

Chicago Botanic Garden Engagement Session

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Alexis & Jimmy’s Gold Coast Engagement Session On the night of Alexis and Jimmy’s Gold Coast engagement session, the forecast called for a fifty percent chance of rain. We went back and forth a bit, trying to decide whether we should go ahead with their session or reschedule, but I’m so glad Alexis and Jimmy […]

A Gold Coast Engagement Session | Jimmy + Alexis

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Rebecca and Chuy’s Beautiful July Cantigny Wedding Rebecca and Chuy’s July Cantigny wedding was one to remember! Although there were three-hundred guests in attendance, their wedding still felt personal and intimate. Family and friends were so excited to be there to celebrate this marriage, and Chuy was basically radiating pure JOY all day long whenever […]

A Beautiful July Cantigny Wedding | Rebecca + Chuy

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Caitlin and Bryan’s downtown Chicago engagement session just happened to fall on one of the most beautiful Friday nights of the year so far! Chicago’s museum campus was busy, but you’d never know it! We found the most breathtaking spots, tucked away in little corners, and I had so much fun with these two! The […]

A Classic Chicago Engagement Session | Caitlin + Bryan

Millennium Park Engagement Session
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Taylor and Will’s Millenium Park Engagement Session Taylor and Will’s Millennium Park engagement session took place in the absolute perfect window of time! We were hoping for sunshine all week, and when Saturday rolled around, there was a threat of rain… but it held off until just as I was taking one final portrait of […]

A Millennium Park Engagement Session