I first met Lauren at her sister’s wedding in 2022. Just a couple of months after that wedding, Lauren met Thomas. In the spring of 2024, I got to photograph Lauren and Thomas when they were engaged and then, later that year, their beautiful fall wedding. Now, two years later, I got to join them […]

I knew their wedding day would be complete magic because their engagement session was beautiful, delicious (that homemade pasta!), and so comfortable and fun. We could’ve made it a whole day event so we could take photos and then hang out for several hours. In the time since, they have moved to their new house, […]

I knew Elizabeth and Michael’s wedding would be beautiful and fun, but even my expectations were exceeded. I started the day with the ladies at the salon where they were eating bits of breakfast in between getting their hair and makeup done. Then, while they finished up there, I moved to Rolling Meadows to start […]

When I photographed their engagement session in April, we had a big laugh because a bird flying somewhere overhead pooped on Kyle’s head. Splat. So when we arrived downtown for Cydney and Kyle’s first look and portraits and were swarmed by hundreds of people walking around with their faces in their phones, we had another […]

The met the first day of college. Both of them were taking a freshman seminar made up of three courses: a math class, small group tutoring, and a study skills class. With all three parts of the course, they saw each other every day. He mentioned that his birthday was coming up and brought chocolate […]

They’ve been together for almost 10 years, their kids growing up as siblings. They met in 2006 when Sara May’s son was in Eddie’s camp. “We had a school-related lunch in August and then I thought it would turn into something more,” Sara May said. “But he chickened out. Then a friend convinced me I […]