• Mini rant time: We’ve been approached three times by couples in the past few weeks that have been turned away by vendors because of their sexual orientation. So let’s say it again: love is love and married is what freakin’ matters. You are safe and you are seen with us. LGBTQ+ supporting vendors - drop you’re info below. ⬇️ Let’s show this community who is on their side. 🏳️‍🌈 Complete Planning: Storybook Weddings and Events Nicole Hensley @storybook_weddingsandevents @itsnicolehensley⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Beverages: Garfields Beverage Warehouse @garfieldsbeverage ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Beauty: Pin me up Chicago @pinmeupchicago ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Catering: Maison Cuisine @maisoncuisinechicago ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Videography: Shutter and Sound @shutterandsound⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Entertainment: Cage and Aquarium @cageandaquarium ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Floral: Flowers for Dreams @flowersfordreams ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Photography: Indigo Lace Collective @indigolacecollective⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Photobooth: Shutterbooth @shutterboothchicago ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Transportation: ChiTown Limo Bus @chitownlimo ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Room Blocks: The Langham Hotel @langhamhotels and Chicago Athletic Association @chicagoathletichotel ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Venue: Salvage One @salvageoneevents
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    Mini rant time: We’ve been approached three times by couples in the past few weeks that have been turned away by vendors because of their sexual orientation. So let’s say it again: love is love and married is what freakin’ matters. You are safe and you are seen with us. LGBTQ+ supporting vendors - drop you’re info below. ⬇️ Let’s show this community who is on their side. 🏳️‍🌈 Complete Planning: Storybook Weddings and Events Nicole Hensley @storybook_weddingsandevents @itsnicolehensley⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Beverages: Garfields Beverage Warehouse @garfieldsbeverage ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Beauty: Pin me up Chicago @pinmeupchicago ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Catering: Maison Cuisine @maisoncuisinechicago ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Videography: Shutter and Sound @shutterandsound⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Entertainment: Cage and Aquarium @cageandaquarium ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Floral: Flowers for Dreams @flowersfordreams ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Photography: Indigo Lace Collective @indigolacecollective⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Photobooth: Shutterbooth @shutterboothchicago ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Transportation: ChiTown Limo Bus @chitownlimo ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Room Blocks: The Langham Hotel @langhamhotels and Chicago Athletic Association @chicagoathletichotel ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Venue: Salvage One @salvageoneevents
  • Someday when historians ask me for one photo that sums up 2020 weddings, I’ll give them this one. Also this is @katelynmschwartz ‘s proclaimed favorite wedding photo so heck yes it is being posted 🙌🏻
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    Someday when historians ask me for one photo that sums up 2020 weddings, I’ll give them this one. Also this is @katelynmschwartz ‘s proclaimed favorite wedding photo so heck yes it is being posted 🙌🏻
  • ENGAGED PEOPLE WE SEE YOU 🙌🏻 First, take a rest. Relax. Enjoy the fact that you just had a whirlwind of a holiday with a little bling at the end. Set the Instagram hashtags and Pinterest board aside just for a bit. Second, I’m shouting out all past and currently engaged couples, especially the ones that are planning mid-pandemic: What did you love about your wedding and process? What would you have changed? In all the chaos and uncertainty that this season provides, what advice would you give someone who is just diving in? 2021 & 2022 LETS GO 🙌🏻
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    ENGAGED PEOPLE WE SEE YOU 🙌🏻 First, take a rest. Relax. Enjoy the fact that you just had a whirlwind of a holiday with a little bling at the end. Set the Instagram hashtags and Pinterest board aside just for a bit. Second, I’m shouting out all past and currently engaged couples, especially the ones that are planning mid-pandemic: What did you love about your wedding and process? What would you have changed? In all the chaos and uncertainty that this season provides, what advice would you give someone who is just diving in? 2021 & 2022 LETS GO 🙌🏻
  • Feast your eyes on the LAST wedding gallery on my editing least and the last wedding of 2020. I would have told you you were crazy if I knew I would end up photographing the end of a dumpster fire wedding season in freakin’ Mexico with two of the best humans on the planet. Krista & Devin overcame a LOT - broken ankles, hurricanes, COVID, and a very rainy OG wedding date - to make this day happen. 100% freakin’ worth it. My only regret is that I didn’t stick around long enough to witness @kristaaaa15 dance to WAP on an empty dance floor in her wedding dress. Props to my husband who face-timed the family during the ceremony and a giant thanks the bartender at El Dorado that made us the best margs I’ve ever had. Get married somewhere fun. You won’t regret it.
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    Feast your eyes on the LAST wedding gallery on my editing least and the last wedding of 2020. I would have told you you were crazy if I knew I would end up photographing the end of a dumpster fire wedding season in freakin’ Mexico with two of the best humans on the planet. Krista & Devin overcame a LOT - broken ankles, hurricanes, COVID, and a very rainy OG wedding date - to make this day happen. 100% freakin’ worth it. My only regret is that I didn’t stick around long enough to witness @kristaaaa15 dance to WAP on an empty dance floor in her wedding dress. Props to my husband who face-timed the family during the ceremony and a giant thanks the bartender at El Dorado that made us the best margs I’ve ever had. Get married somewhere fun. You won’t regret it.
  • I know you’ve heard it over and over again - “print your photos.” And you think “oh yeah I should do that.” And then you don’t. But don’t worry because we gotchu- 50% off + free shipping heck yeah! It took me 3 years to print my wedding album so trust me, I’m right there with you. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to let you get away with the fact that hundreds of gorgeous wedding photos are existing as a data file on a hard drive. Is that really even existing, even? What photos should you print? Honestly? All of them. Even if they’re just 4x6’s and placed in a box, they deserve to be scattered across a kitchen table by your descendants for decades to come. Overwhelmed with your favorites? Print out a handful of 8x10’s and 11x14’s, it up Ikea for some cheap frames and cover your walls. There’s a DIY gallery blog on my website! Don’t want to relive 2020? Be proud in the fact that you got freakin’ married or engaged or rummaged up the energy to have family photos in all of this chaos. Print the good sh*t that came out of this year, you know? Saving money for Christmas and haven’t budgeted for photos? Friends & family can take advantage of this sale pluuuusss they probably want some prints of their own for Christmas too! Purchasing prints supports that local small business too ;) You invested in photos because you know it's one of the only things from the wedding that LAST. Stop procrastinating and print your photos. This is your legacy. It deserves to be documented, preserved, cherished, and reflected on. Use code “HECKYEAH2020” starting tomorrow - 12/10!
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    I know you’ve heard it over and over again - “print your photos.” And you think “oh yeah I should do that.” And then you don’t. But don’t worry because we gotchu- 50% off + free shipping heck yeah! It took me 3 years to print my wedding album so trust me, I’m right there with you. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to let you get away with the fact that hundreds of gorgeous wedding photos are existing as a data file on a hard drive. Is that really even existing, even? What photos should you print? Honestly? All of them. Even if they’re just 4x6’s and placed in a box, they deserve to be scattered across a kitchen table by your descendants for decades to come. Overwhelmed with your favorites? Print out a handful of 8x10’s and 11x14’s, it up Ikea for some cheap frames and cover your walls. There’s a DIY gallery blog on my website! Don’t want to relive 2020? Be proud in the fact that you got freakin’ married or engaged or rummaged up the energy to have family photos in all of this chaos. Print the good sh*t that came out of this year, you know? Saving money for Christmas and haven’t budgeted for photos? Friends & family can take advantage of this sale pluuuusss they probably want some prints of their own for Christmas too! Purchasing prints supports that local small business too ;) You invested in photos because you know it's one of the only things from the wedding that LAST. Stop procrastinating and print your photos. This is your legacy. It deserves to be documented, preserved, cherished, and reflected on. Use code “HECKYEAH2020” starting tomorrow - 12/10!
  • EFF YOU 2020 🎉 The end of this year is worth celebrating because 1. It’s finally over and 2. We freakin made it through. So instead of the cookie cutter Christmas mini session that gloss over how wild this year has been, come party it up. Pop champagne. Throw toilet paper. Blast confetti. We will blare the Tik Tok songs of quarantine and photograph the energy and emotion that is ready to burst out of you after this year. It’s like a fun rage room celebration style to cap off the year. And of course, this is covid friendly! I’m literally photographing you in my garage so we can be outdoors but still warm and covered! THE DETAILS ⬇️ $140 // December 12 & 13 // 10 minutes // 5 images // confetti and champagne are provided // 48 hour image turnaround so you can send out New Years or Christmas cards stat! // LINK IN BIO TO BOOK
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    EFF YOU 2020 🎉 The end of this year is worth celebrating because 1. It’s finally over and 2. We freakin made it through. So instead of the cookie cutter Christmas mini session that gloss over how wild this year has been, come party it up. Pop champagne. Throw toilet paper. Blast confetti. We will blare the Tik Tok songs of quarantine and photograph the energy and emotion that is ready to burst out of you after this year. It’s like a fun rage room celebration style to cap off the year. And of course, this is covid friendly! I’m literally photographing you in my garage so we can be outdoors but still warm and covered! THE DETAILS ⬇️ $140 // December 12 & 13 // 10 minutes // 5 images // confetti and champagne are provided // 48 hour image turnaround so you can send out New Years or Christmas cards stat! // LINK IN BIO TO BOOK