When I saw Sarah’s email that she had gotten engaged and wanted to do sunrise engagement pictures in Chicago, I was thrilled! Sarah and I went to high school together and both have since moved to Chicago. Although we hadn’t talked in quite some time, it was still extra special to work with someone I know.
After a bit of deliberation, we decided to do sunrise engagement pictures at Theater on the Lake. The sunrise we got was short, but full of color reflecting off the soft waves of Lake Michigan. It was such a magical start to the day that doesn’t happen very often in the summer with 5am sunrises!
I used to do sunrise engagement pictures in Chicago all the time, but I think people got more tired and less ambitious in their journey of putting on formalwear at 4:30 in the morning…so they faded out pretty fast. I’m not a huge morning person, but if there’s a plane, hike, or gorgeous sunrise and cute clients on the other side of that alarm clock, I’ll be there with excitement! This day was definitely worth the 4am wakeup call.
After a slow morning, we went to North Pond for some greenery which put the final bow on this gallery.
Keep scrolling to see more of Sarah and Zack’s Chicago sunrise engagement pictures.
Even though we had such beautiful colors at this sunrise, I couldn’t help but add in a few black-and-white favorites.
After we watched the rest of sunrise, we walked over to North Pond for lots of wildflowers and lush trees. These two make this park look so good!!
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