Stacy & Zac are an adorable, quirky & fun couple who laugh a lot and have so much fun together… all things that mean you found the right one!! ❤️ I love these gorgeous invitations from M Haley Designs… the intricate cutouts almost mimic the lacy embellishments on Stacy’s dress! SO PRETTY! Photobombed by this […]

Ashley and Jake got married on a gorgeous late fall afternoon — beautiful light, gorgeous bride… yay! love these cute shirt (button downs don’t muss with hair & makeup!) all the emotions! that perfect little tendril of red hair! Now on to Jake…. A first look outside the Magnolia Hotel Trumped!  This guys is everywhere […]

When I was in my late teens/early twenties,  I had a few friends that had their entire lives planned out. Like year by year. It TOTALLY blew my mind. They would rattle it off… “when I’m 25 I’ll be making $50,000 a year, when I turn 26 I’ll get married, we’ll buy a house in […]

So much pretty ahead in this post! Meredith had to help me narrow down the photos (thanks Mer). Sometimes I just can’t bring myself to do it! Photographers nearly always have some level of emotional attachment to their images. It’s extra tough to let go and be subjective when you’re this close to them. Natalie […]

I was lucky enough to get to know Katie and Jake pretty well before the wedding since they had me come up to Chicago to shoot their engagement session! We shot until Jake hit the breaking point we like to call “hangry” (a disorder I am quite familiar with as it is shared by both […]

How often does one get to photograph the wedding of high school sweethearts?! I was thinking about the answer to that question and based on my 13 years and 300 plus weddings, I would go with something in the 2-3% range. Making these two something close to a statistical anomaly! And they are just perfect […]

Okay, so I have been dying to post this one!  Stephanie and Jonathan, better known as JZ (yes, JZ) had a gorgeous winter wedding that began friday night with a surprise Clydesdale appearance at the rehearsal dinner, and continued well into saturday night with lots of fun and food and dancing with family and friends! […]

As we are all over here running around like chickens with our heads cut off, I’m sitting down for a sec, eating a few fabulous goodies from some of our wonderful vendor friends, and reliving this pretty epic wedding day filled with crazy Canadians! JK of course. I mean crazy in a good way. ;) […]

Andi and Daniel are fun humans.  Let me just get that right out of the way.  When we shot their engagement session they were running and skipping and dangling of of playground equipment… and from that moment on, I knew they were my type of people. LOL  We started the day at the Hilton at […]