Phew! I knew this was going to happen. Okay, remind me while I make the rest of my Recap of 2020 posts to not listen to music that makes me all in my feels because I’m gettin’ all tear-y eyed over here! :’) One of my favorite things to do towards the end of the year is to go back through all of my galleries, reminisce […]
This year has definitely been filled with lots of surprises to say the least, but I’ve also been experiencing some “firsts” with my couples which has been so exciting and fun! I love when couples plan their engagement sessions to coordinate and reflect their personalities, things that they like or just something that screams “THEM”! Earlier this year for example, for the […]
This year has been filled with seeing some of my 2021 couples to photograph their engagement sessions and I have been to a few “new to me” locations which has been so fun to get my creative juices flowing again! Alyssa and Krystian decided they wanted to have their shoot at the Museum Campus in Chicago, which […]
I’ve said this once and I’ll say it again… it feels SO GOOD to be back behind my camera photographing my lovely couples! I’ve missed them SOOO much! It also feels amazing to be back at one of my favorite engagement session locations- the Naperville Riverwalk!! I’ve done sessions here in every single season and as I was walking around before we started Erika and Robert’s shoot, I determined that […]
It feels SO GOOD putting together this engagement session post because this was the first one I’ve had in MONTHS! (thanks a lot Covid, waaahh!) Getting back behind my camera made my heart flutter and made me so happy! But to make it even more incredible, is that I got to spend this first session back after quarantine with Amanda and Nick! I have been dyyyyying to get these two in front of my camera ever since […]
Champagne showers, ACTUAL rain showers that required umbrellas, walks on the beach, frolicking through beautiful gardens, repeat locations and new to me locations, LOTS of included fur babies, tons of moments that made me laugh so hard my belly ached, and spending time with these 21 incredible couples— doesn’t even begin to sum up how amazing my 2019 engagement sessions were! Some of these […]
I feel like after every year that I’m photographing weddings and engagements, I am coming across more and more unique and different style rings and I LOVE that! Whether the girl picks out the style of ring that she likes the most, or the guy totally surprises her with a design that he thinks would be the perfect fit for her, I absolutely love seeing the special diamond that the groom proposes with and will soon be […]
Three words to describe these two- caring, gentle, and kind. I just knew from the back and forth communication with Kelly that I was going to just adore them! In a questionnaire that I send my couples, one of the questions is to describe your relationship in one sentence and they put “our relationship is caring for one another all the time”. When I finally got the chance to meet them at their engagement session, I could feel the […]
Alexa and Nick met through mutual friends and knew each other for a while before officially becoming a couple! With roses, a plane ticket to California where Nick was living at the time, he asked Alexa to be his girlfriend on their first date! Of course, she said yes! A few years later, she would be saying that exact phrase to him on what she thought was a “Mother’s Day getaway” weekend in Florida and he asked her to […]
Ohhhh these two! I am trying to put into words just how much I loved Lauren and Boston’s engagement session. They came all the way from beautiful Colorado and are getting married in Chicago in the spring of 2021 and I had some big shoes to fill when it came to the location we would go to! They live in the middle of MOUNTAINS and views that look like it’s straight out of a post card or magazine! How am I supposed to “wow” them in Illinois? (haha!) I came across this […]