Jesse & Anthony were referred to us by a last-year bride and her mom - Jackie & Karen. If you would like to see the photos from the amazing wedding at Narnia Estate of Jackie & Tony were posted some time ago.
I knew right away that Jesse & Anthony's wedding will be a family and love affair because they came for their initial wedding consultation with Jesse's parents and siblings. It's such a great idea to bring your loved ones to meet us because the better friends we all become the more fun and special the photos we can produce.
Jesse is a hairstylist and Anthony is a carpenter...
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One of nice ideas for Save-The-Date cards for weddings is to print them on fridge magnets. Those cards still reproduce color super nicely, come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but most importantly wedding guests can put them on the fridge to remember about the upcoming wedding.
In the Save-The-Date cards that I create for my clients I also include their website address. This is a custom website that I create where we can include information about the couple (how they met, what they like, etc), the wedding party, wedding ceremony and reception, accommodation, etc
Below are couple of photos...
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I just wanted to share some exciting news that I got few weeks ago that some of my photos got published in the WeddingWire blog. Those photos were taken in Vivo restaurant in Chicago. Vivo is one of my favorite place for Italian food. They also have "above vault" table that has been voted one of the most romantic places for dinner in Chicago. So if you thought of a nice place for a date dinner this is definitely the place:)
Here is the link to the Wedding Wire post: http://blog.weddingwire.com/index.php/weddings/winter-inspired-style-shoot/
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I have worked with Laurel Bridal on multiple occasions such as weddings, bridal photo sessions, and wedding expos. Beata, the owner of Laurel bridal was always super easy to work with and always happy to lend beautiful European dresses. This year it's Laurel's Bridal 10th year anniversary and I am happy to share the news that anybody that will register with the European Bridal expo has a chance to win a beautiful and unique wedding dress.
It's very simple to register:
1. Go to European Bridal Expo
2. Click the banner on the right side where it says: CLICK HERE TO WIN A FREE ...
3. Fill out the contact...
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I found this interesting list of current wedding photography trends. It's always interesting to see how wedding photography is categorized. I think my style is closest to Fine Art Photography though I definitely include a lot of photojournalism in my style.
Here is the link to the original article: http://www.veilandtrain.com/photography/10-wedding-photography-trends/
Contemporary Vintage – give your wedding a real vintage look with meaning and a modern twist by using a photographer who specialises in this specific style. Fine art tones and colour shifts – and don’t forget, dogs at weddings...
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Julie & Caleb wedding is not till 2012 but since Julie is an event planner at the SAX Chicago Hotel I knew everything will be nicely planned ahead of time:) So two weeks ago we scheduled Julie and Caleb's engagement session. After meeting couple of times and discussing what Julie and Caleb had in mind we decided on the Chicago Landmark theme. Chicago has so many landmarks that it was challenging to figure out which ones we wanted to include in our session. We narrowed down the list to about 12 places. Our list included the Soldier Field, the Field Museum, the Shedd Aquarium, the Planetarium,...
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Last Friday I received an email from The Knot that WASIO photography is the Knot 2011 Pick for Best of Wedding Photography! This email totally made my day. I don't believe photography is about awards and competitions but it's a great feeling to get recognize, especially by those people that I worked with. So I would like to thank everybody that voted for me! One of the main reasons I love photographing people is opportunity to meet wonderful people, become their friend, and be part of one of their happiest days in their lives. Yes, wedding photography can be stressful, physically demanding, time...
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Last weekend I had a pleasure to photograph an engagement session with Lakisha & Alex. Their wedding is not till August, but we decided to have our session early so we could set up their custom wedding site and design the save-the-date cards. Lakisha and Alex met in Florida but recently moved back to Chicago where Alex is originally from. They are a super cool couple and it was so much fun to photograph them. Despite the Chicago January winter they got so much energy and stayed so warm that they were willing to even take off their coats for some of the photos.
Initially we thought the theme...
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There are many sites that offer semi-custom wedding information site for couples planning their weddings. I know TheKnot.com offers one and I am sure there are plenty more. But after seeing some of them I realized that they don't do the justice and decided to provide custom wedding info site to the couples whose wedding I am going to photograph.
After some research and help from Bob & Dawn Davis I decided to go with ShowIt.com They offer a great user interface and super powerful platform to create quickly web site. What's more important the sites look awesome in practically all browsers.
Below...
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