Michelle & Jake’s Stunning Makray Memorial Golf Club Wedding
Michelle and Jake’s love story started as most modern day love stories do: on a dating app. After a few text exchanges and promising conversations Michelle and Jake planned their first date – the only problem . . .
Tracy & Greg’s Beautiful Independence Grove Wedding
Tracy and Greg first met when they attended his cousin’s wedding, and while they got along great and had a blast celebrating together they went their separate ways after the wedding ended. They stayed connected through social media and in 2022 Tracy discovered the . . .
Alexis & Bennet’s Perfect Seven Bridges Wedding
Alexis and Bennet first met in college at ISU but didn’t start dating until years later. Building on the strong foundation of their close friendship the realized they were meant to be . . .
Courtney & Ryan’s Pretty Cog Hill Wedding
Courtney and Ryan were very close friends during high school and into their college years. She has fond memories of him visiting her at Durbins while she worked as a waitress and him visiting her . . .
Ariana & Andrew’s Sweet Farmhouse Plainfield Wedding
Ariana and Andrew met four years ago – on their second date, Andrew told Ariana he may be relocated to Arizona for work. They continued to date for four months and then his company did . . .
Emma & Brett’s Beautiful Makray Memorial Golf Club Wedding
Emma and Brett first met when they were working together as camp counselors at the Palatine Park District during the Summer of 2017, before our junior year of college. They were friendly at first and then started texting before . . .
Laura & Manse’s Lovely Glen Club Wedding
Laura and Manse met the old fashioned way – on a dating app – and bonded over their love of dogs and good food. They were comfortable with one another from the beginning . . .
Claire & Jesus’ Sweet Rolling Green Country Club Wedding
Claire and Jesus met in 2017 while working at the same restaurant downtown. They worked the same shifts and would go out after work, and the more they hung out and got to know each other they realized. . .
Jeanne and Kevin’s Emotional DiNolfo’s Wedding
Jeanne and Kevin’s love story may well be one of the most romantic we have ever had the honor of witnessing. With over sixteen years of friendship as their foundation, being alongside Jeanne and Kevin as they made things official and became husband and wife was an absolute joy. . .
Sara & Andy’s Romantic Boundary Ballroom Wedding
Sara and Andy met in 2015 when they were both working at the social work agency Thresholds downtown. Andy is a social worker and Sara was working there as an administrative assistant while going to grad school. They had crushes on each other . . .
Lauren and Kevin’s Perfect Royal Melbourne Wedding
Lauren and Kevin met on a dating app and she went into their first date thinking "there is no way I'm going to marry someone named Kevin anyway" since Kevin is also her brother's name – well, the joke was on Lauren . . .
Natalie & Joe’s Romantic Chevy Chase Country Club Wedding
Natalie and Joe met while they were both working at the Des Plaines Public Library. He worked as a computer technician and she worked as a library assistant. It was Natalie’s first full time job and she was shy, but in her first week . . .
Kaylee & Matt’s Beautiful Chevy Chase Country Club Wedding
Kaylee and Matt both went to Prospect High School, they were one school year apart and knew of each other for a while. They truly met for the first time at Lollapalooza in 2016. Kaylee went with her girlfriends and connected with Matt and his friends . . .
Emily and Nick’s Gorgeous Makray Memorial Wedding
Emily is sort of our dream-bride – she’s gorgeous, which certainly makes our jobs easier, but she’s FUN to be around and made our jobs easy. Emily and Nick have a beautiful connection
Jamie & Patrick’s Perfect Heritage Prairie Farm Wedding
Jamie and Patrick are both teachers who met when they started new jobs in a new district. She taught second grade and he is a PE teacher. They met at a welcome party for their new principal. Over the next two years they became great friends. . .
Jackie & Brian’s Beautiful Rolling Green Country Club Wedding
Jackie and Brian were set up on a blind date by a mutual friend. They met for drinks and bonded over Aurelio’s pizza and things just kept going from there! When . . .
Kevin & Jon’s Chic Marriott Marquis Wedding
Kevin and Jon met online and their love blossomed through taking walks, talking and listening, and sharing a love of TV shows. Jon proposed by reenacting David from Schitt's Creek lip syncing to “Simply the Best” . . .
Jess & Brad’s Perfect Metropolis Ballroom Wedding
Jess and Brad met over laser tag and arcade games – nothing really came out of that night other than some shared smiles and laughs. Fast forward to a few weeks later, Jess and Brad matched on Tinder! She had never been . . .
Eileen & Darryl’s Beautiful Eaglewood Resort Wedding
Eileen and Darryl are so incredibly sweet together. When I met them over the summer for their engagement session at the Lincoln Park Nature Conservatory we had the best time laughing and exploring together . . .
Annette & Rocco’s Beautiful Chevy Chase Wedding
Annette and Rocco met on an online dating app and as they were talking she thought she recognized him from SOMEWHERE but could not pinpoint where. They later found out that Rocco was the brother of Annette's . . .