Emily and Jeff's wedding reception

I had a great time with Emily and Jeff for their engagement session over the summer and I knew their wedding reception would also be awesome!

I walked into their house to see this adorable pair of bears


We then roamed around the city for some fun portraits








I love Jeff's laugh here!


Gorgeous flowers by Scarlet Petal!




After portraits we headed over to Cafe Brauer for the party to start!

Jim

I spent this gorgeous fall day outside photographing Jim!

Sara and Ryan's engagement

I spent a great fall afternoon with this cute couple!





I enjoy making my couples climb things... don't worry: he's climbing up, not falling down here


to get here!

Shiraz and Vijay's wedding

What a beautiful wedding at the Swissotel! Shiraz and Vijay were wonderful to work with.









One of the flower girls was far more interested in her game than preparing for the ceremony






The first time they get to see each other during the ceremony






Love the shadows!


mmm... cake.

Chicago at night

I was photographing a benefit downtown last week and loved this view as I was about to head home.

Kaiserslautern and Kusel

On to Germany! My friend JP lives in Kusel, so Karl and I met him at the nearest train station in Kaiserslautern.

I loved this art work at the train station


There are many fish sculptures throughout the city


JP's fabulous collection of rubber duckies




We took a walk around JP's village; it was very peaceful






The guys laughed at me for stopping to take this photo. I was intrigued by the pattern.