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Heart pounding through my chest, palms sweating, butterflies going crazy in my stomach and a happiness welling inside of me so great that I fear I may explode.

Yes, I’m in love.

I’m in love with New Orleans.

Don’t be fooled by Lauren and David’s beautiful appearance and lovely demeanor: these kids are tough.

Lauren keeps the streets of Chicago safe professionally and David camps in the dead of winter with nothing more than a hammock. I’m serious!

I took three things away from Dana and Nick’s glorious Chicago summer morning engagement session….

Holy guacamole. If you want a full proof proposal plan, then boy do I have news for you. Merely heed my advice and follow these instructions:

I feel like these two and I went through some kind of profound experience together, one that makes you stronger and ultimately brings you so much closer together. Please, allow me to explain!

Quite honestly, I do not even know where to begin with this one.

Carly and Johnny’s wedding day was, in a word, breathtaking. It wasn’t just the stunning, soft, luminous florals, the goose-bump inducing music during the ceremony or the beauty of their elegant venue. Carly and Johnny radiate goodness.

What do you get when you mix a sweet and beautiful couple, a moody morning along the Chicago River and a photographer with a brand new camera? Magic, my friends. That’s what!

Let’s be honest, having a chick crawling around in the bushes (oh yes, literally!) with a camera focusing solely on you is……not your average Thursday night’s activity (or maybe it is? If so it’s probably best you keep that to yourself ;-).

Alex and Tom were so natural in front of the camera. And it doesn’t hurt that they’re gorgeous, obviously. These people are basically Good Humans for a living (she being a nurse and he being a fireman/first responder) and that force of good definitely shines when you see them interact together.

When push comes to shove, I think the absolute most rewarding part of being a wedding and portrait photographer are the relationships I develop with my amazing clients.

I first met Sarah on a breezy autumn day in Old Town to discuss her wedding day plans and we hit it off immediately.

Claudia and Izzy have one of those sweet stories that everyone dreams of: high school sweethearts introduced via family and mutual friends who have been together through thick and thin for years.