One of our winter weddings featured on Be U Weddings!

We are so excited to see Marta and William’s stunning winter wedding featured on Be U Weddings today. We so enjoyed working on this wedding and had a really talented group of professionals with us including Heather Parker Photography, Toast and Jam and Scarlet Petal.

 

Nikki and Brian’s Same Day Wedding Video


 

We had such an amazing time working with Nikki and Brian to plan their dream wedding!!  The weather was perfect (hot, but a really nice lake breeze) and we could not have asked for a more magical group of vendors!!  I will save all of the details for a longer blog post once we have the pictures from Megan W Photography (but you can see their adorable engagement pictures here).

Thank you so much to Steve and the fantastic crew from Studio Z Films for this beautiful same day edit of Nikki and Brian’s beautiful wedding.  We hope to do this again and again!

 

The newest issue of CS Brides is on the stands and we are featured!

It was so exciting to crack open the newest issue of CS Brides. The magazine is always beautiful but there is nothing better than seeing one of our weddings featured!  We were thrilled when we learned Amanda and Mike, the winners of the 2010 eleven eleven WEDDING Giveaway, were going to be featured in the fall/winter issue.

We are so honored to work with such amazing vendors for the eleven eleven WEDDING Giveaway.  Your support and dedication never cease to amaze and awe all of us!  Thank you!

 

Under a New Moon gets loads of press!

We can hardly believe that Under a New Moon has already happened but it was an exceptional evening filled with love and joy.  We are thrilled at all of the press this event has achieved. All of the sponsors worked extremely hard and as we all know, same-sex civil unions have been a long time coming to Illinois!

Please read, watch and enjoy all of following pieces.  We will add more as they come in!

ABC 7 Video featuring Amanda and Katrina

10 Thousand Couples featuring all of our couples

NBC  5 Article featuring Kati and Esther

 

 

Andrea + Rob Part 2 … Simply Jessie is Simply Amazing!!

I am just so blown away by these images.  Be sure to visit Simply Jessie’s site to see more of her outstanding work and read the entire post on Andrea and Rob’s gorgeous wedding.

Andrea + Rob, Sneak Peek

We love it when we get to see wedding images just days after the event!  Andrea and Rob were married this past weekend at St. Benedict’s Parish with a reception at Fulton’s on the River. A special thank you to Jessie and Eric from Simply Jessie Photography for this beautiful blog post.  Jessie is right, this was such a fun couple to work with – so laid back and honestly just happy!  They were happy to be getting married and it showed. What a joy!!

I have included everything below but you really should check out their site, its fantastic!  This was our first time working with Simply Jessie Photography (thank you to Kelly from Fleur for introducing us!). We were just blown away! Here’s to many, many more events together!

Andrea + Rob Married! | Part 1 | St. Benedict and Fulton’s On the River

Even though Chicago decided to give us Winter instead of Spring, I haven’t enjoyed a wedding this much in quite a while. I  just completely adore Andrea & Rob.  These two just get it. They were so ready to be married.  They enjoyed their day. Sounds simple and obvious but these few elements are the key to a wonderful day and unbelievable images.  Andrea is just a joy to be around and included me as one of her gals for the day.  I am always touched when trusted to walk right into people’s lives and stories.

Andrea and Rob had an amazing team. They had a gorgeous event with stunning florals by Fleur and flawless planning by Heather at Greatest Expectations. Makeup by Andie Cumber.

This is only Part 1!!! Tomorrow will be complete with downtown Chicago,  bridges, recpetion details at Fulton’s on the River and night photography!!  Stay tuned!

The following images were shot mere seconds after they were officially married!




A beautiful love story

Monday’s Chicago Tribune featured a wonderful story about Nick and Bahar Schmidt.  I know that Bahar enjoyed the opportunity to talk about Nick and share what an amazing person he was with the reporter.  I think the piece is simply beautiful and I wanted to share it with each of you.

They had it all: love, marriage and cancer