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What better way to celebrate a birthday for a wedding planner than a dreamy, candlelit and draped dinner reception?! This cozy dinner was the perfect set up for a long meal with friends and time well-spent catching up. Niela planned her own birthday dinner so beautifully, wearing a little white dress from Grace + Ivory. […]

Catherine and Russell’s colorful winery wedding took us all throughout the city on the most gorgeous Saturday in August. The morning began with just their families standing as their wedding party at two iconic Chicago hotels before heading up north to Lincoln Park South Pond for couples photos where Delilah (their dog) met us! South […]

This engagement session at Ault Park was SUCH a treat for me!! I’ve known Madi since high school, and she was one of my first “models” when I was just starting photography. That took us to her senior photos, her younger sisters’, and now her engagement photos!!! It’s always extra special to photograph people I […]

Okay okay, summer isn’t really proposal season, but it is in my world. I adore summer proposals–a bustling city, lush greenery, a gorgeous Buckingham Fountain we get to call our own, and “wine tasting” plans that Nicole thought she was headed to with some friends that turned into the perfect summer proposal in Chicago. Needless […]

Chicagoans party hard in the summer, but nothing gets us ready for the winter like some colorful fall foliage throughout the city, and South Pond is one of the best places to see it. Erick and Mariah joined my early one fall morning before the rest of the city was fully awake for the most […]

Proposals are some of my favorite sessions to see on my calendar, and this one was such a fun one to help plan!! Olivia got a complete surprise, and my adrenaline was running high making sure she didn’t see me following them through the jungle paths and other groups of people during this winter proposal […]