Remember Ariel and Dave? Click here to see their January wedding or here for their fall engagement session. They chose to do a private wedding in January and to throw a big fun BBQ in July! How fun is that?!
The party was at Kenilworth Country Club on a perfect summer evening with fabulous food Jon at Big Hatt Gourmet . Family and friends came from all over, Paris, Turkey, and from coast to coast to wish them well and celebrate their new marriage! Ariel chose simple picnic decor and enjoyed all her guests.
WARNING. These two are incredibly cute together and they ooze with new love. Not in the gross lovey dovey way, but in the geniune ” I love you just the way you are , who cares about the rest of them” sort of way. They are full of life and laugh more together than any other couple we’ve photographed. Seriously. I know its cheesy to say but it is an amazing journey for me to watch two individuals become husband and wife only six months ago to now capture through my lens them bursting with life and love. What can I say? It was a good day. A very good day indeed.
Congratulations Dave and Ariel. We are blessed to call you friends! ( I love when that happens)
At the end of the evening, we found this tandem bike…. They are both avid cyclists and had a tandem bike on their wedding invites!
p.s. doesn’t her short hair look incredible?
Our Muted Love Woodland shoot was featured on Ruffled! Thank you thank you to all the wonderful vendors! If you’d like to see more of this inspiration shoot, click here to go back to the post on the blog!
Elizabeth Anne Designs is one of our favorite blogs and we were thrilled to have Lauren and Matt’s beautiful day featured!! If you’d like to see more of this wedding, click here to go back in the blog and have a looksie.
In keeping with the natural melancholy aesthetic of shoot, the film by Put Down the Bourbon was shot in an dramatic raw perspective with an original music composition by Paper Door. We didn’t want a smooth over-produced video but the edges a bit unkempt and an intimate perspective into this bride’s waiting. Muted Love. from … Continue reading
I am so very excited to bring you this Woodland Inspiration Shoot. A group of talented vendors got together wanting an inspirational shoot void of pastels and pretty pinks to bring imagery to the bride with a love of nature and the beauty in the barren winter months. Katie from Jayne Weddings first hatched this … Continue reading
One shot as a fun Sneak Peek to what I will be posting on Thursday!! Katie from Jayne Weddings , Kelly from Fleur and I got together to brainstorm a wedding inspiration shoot that was void of pastels and appealed to a love of nature and the barren months of winter. This gorgeous dress was … Continue reading
This week started my yearly class at Chicago Botanic Garden teaching Macro Photography in the greenhouse. It is always a welcome change of pace for me to communicate the technicalities of the camera, meet new students and spend some time away from the computer. I wander with my class in the green humidity and it relaxes … Continue reading