When a couple gifts you gourmet donuts at their engagement session, you know they’re a keeper! Ryan & I had the best time hanging with Lexi & Jake last Friday. Funny story: Lexi & I had a meeting scheduled on the day Jet was born! Before I had the chance to text family & friends to […]

If the rest of our weddings this year are anything like Kelsie & Jacob’s February celebration, 2017 is going to be one sweet wedding season. Ever since photographing their engagement photos last spring in the used bookstore where they had their first date, Ryan & I have had such high anticipation for this wedding. Not […]

When the February forecast is predicting temperatures almost reaching 70 degrees, you move up an already scheduled engagement session to take advantage of the gorgeous weather! Because Kelsey & Mitch live in the Chicago-area, we met halfway at Matthiessen State Park just a few miles south of Starved Rock. I had never been to Matthiessen […]

Helping your spouse run a business can be a tricky thing sometimes. Between balancing my own full time job with Youth for Christ, finding separation from work-life & home-life, & navigating Lauren’s constant jealousy of my insane photography talent, I’ve got a lot on my plate! While my main role is to second shoot for Lauren […]

2016 was a great year. We traveled to new places, met new friends & celebrated the precious gift of new life. To top it all off, a few days before Jet was born, we learned that for the second year in a row we have been selected as The Knot’s Best of Weddings! Year after […]

Our lives changed forever the morning of November 18. In an instant, Ryan & I went from expecting to experiencing as we laid eyes on our baby boy for the first time. Everything about that moment was perfect as our emotions spilled over from relief to amazement to overflowing love like we’ve never known before.Since […]

To all my photography friends around the area—we survived October! Personally, this is a big deal. Not only did I survive October, but Baby Anderson didn’t come early like I feared (first time mom problems, I know)! As I’ve been grinding these past few weeks to finish all the editing that has piled up, I […]

I couldn’t have dreamed up a better finish to our 2016 wedding season. This may seem a little cheesy, but Jackie & Dan’s wedding was something out of a fairytale. From her whimsical gown to the stunning cathedral, there wasn’t a flaw to be found. More than that, I loved watching how sweetly & tenderly […]