After totally hitting it off with these two at our first meet up and again during our engagement session, I was so excited to photograph Ashleigh & Christopher’s wedding!   It was a beautiful ceremony held at a church in the NW suburbs, and then the reception followed at the White Deer Run Golf Club in Vernon Hills.   A couple of things that stuck out in my mind from that day: (1) Ashleigh surprised Chris with a secret engraving on the inside of his ring that said, “I carry your heart” which reminds me of one of my favorite E. E. Cummings poems (2) I normally am not one for formal portraits but the night before the wedding, I first met Chris’s parents who were so kind to say that they loved our work and were hoping if we could just take one nice portrait of the two of them together at the wedding as they hadn’t had one taken for such a long time (I believe they said almost 10 years!).  Even after talking with them for just a short amount of time, I could already sense that they were such sweet and fun people.. I honestly wished I had an hour or two to do a whole session with them

Anyway, here are but a few favorites from their wedding.  Thank you so much Ashleigh & Chris for inviting us to capture such an important day in your lives, we are so happy for you both and to now have you as friends! xoxo

“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in
my heart) I am never without it (anywhere
i go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
                                i fear
No fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”

- E. E. Cummings