Paula and Jaime are so much fun. They could seriously teach classes on “how to have a good time during your engagement session” (heck, I would sign up for that class!) and just be all around rad in general.

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!

Baylie and Conner are perfect together.

I met this lovely young couple on the shores of Lake Michigan just outside of Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium on a perfect day in May. What had started out as a gray, foggy morning suddenly transformed into a glorious, cerulean and golden morning that couldn’t help but put you in a cuh-razy good mood. ..

Warning: There is a dog with a flower crown in this post and it is almost too much to take. Almost.

Katie and Adam are perfect together. Sweet, funny, up-for-anything and obviously easy on the eyes, these guys were a blast to run around Lincoln Square and Montrose Beach with earlier this month.

I met Karen and Matt in the lakeside ‘burb of Wilmette one golden autumn afternoon.  The only thing more radiant than the light shimmering on Lake Michigan’s perfect blue waters was the way that these crazy kids look at each other…

I met Brittaney and Marcus one early Sunday morning in downtown Chicago to capture some engagement goodness and let me tell ya: mission accomplished.

There was something about the combination of this sun kissed couple just home from the holiday of a lifetime, the gorgeously still mid-August morning in downtown Chicago and the beautiful (dare I say Parisian-esque?!) Doughnut Vault’s exterior that filled me with all of the joi de vivre!

Summerlicious definition: Mariella and Andy at Montrose Beach and Bird Sanctuary. Holy moly, this is the stuff summer dreams are made of!