So if you’ve been following along with my 2013 favorites blog they have all been wedding related up until now. But, the engagements have to come first! I LOVE engagement session……. for real. And this year I got to shoot all over the place. From downtown Chicago to the mountains of Colorado and everywhere in between!

I encourage all my couples to shoot engagement sessions for a number of reasons. First of all it gives us a chance to get to know each other before the wedding because I’m going to be with you the majority of the wedding day. Secondly, it’s a chance to get comfortable in front of the camera pre wedding. I’ll go through some of my posing and tips and tricks so that on the wedding day you already know what I’m talking about when I said “awkward walk”. Plus it gives you great photos of you two not in your wedding attire to use for save the dates etc. Often my couples have tight timelines or are getting married in the suburbs but live in the city. Engagement session are also a chance to visit some of the places you love, but won’t be able to make it to on the wedding day.

Ok ok…. enough talking…. let’s bring on the photos!!

This image at Buckingham Fountain got a ton of action on Facebook this year! It’s probably my favorite engagement image of the year 🙂 I’ve really been trying to work more on my night images now that I live in a city with a great skyline (sorry Indianapolis). Thanks to Melissa and Matt for waiting out the sun with me as I tried to time it just right to get the Chicago sklyine lit up, but still have a blue sky. I have actually semi recreated this shot about 3 times after this one because people loved it so much. See the full session by clicking HERE.

Remember me mentioning the “awkward walk” before? Well this is it… except they aren’t awkward at all! I love this shot of Barb and Ali in downtown Chicago.

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I miss summer…. The warm weather and beatiful sunsets…. sigh… this is my favorite from Ryan and Maryna’s session.

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I love this view of Chicago from Olive Park. We battle rain on and off this entire session and then got kicked out of the park by security….. note to self don’t shoot an engagement session the day of the Blackhawks parade! I think the cops were just sick of dealing with people at this point!

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I had so much fun with these two! Lots of smiles and laughing at this session in Indy with Brandon and Katie!

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Destination engagement?! Yes please! I went out to Colorado to shoot this session with my friend Emily and her fiance Colin. Everywhere in Breckinridge is beautiful.

And I love this shot with Rigby smiling for me with his eyes closed 🙂

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They’re getting two because I just couldn’t decide.

My favorite shot from Tom and Mal’s session! This is at the Kinzie Bridge in the West Loop.

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Oh the gorgeous gorgous light we had during Nicole and Joe’s session at Lincoln Park…. sigh…. I miss temperatures above freezing haha.

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I loved this session in southern Indiana. Lauren’s aunt was kind enough to let us use her barn for the session.

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My favorite from Darci and Mike’s session in Indy…. holy blue eyes!

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Some people freak out if there is rain in the forecast for their session. But Abby and Jerimee embraced it and we got this dreamy misty shot of downtown Chicago from the LaSalle Bridge.

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I’m always looking for differnt ways to frame photos…. thankfully the trees by Buckingham Fountain helped me out in this shot from Kristy and Josh’s wedding 🙂

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My favorite from Robyn and Bobby’s session! Awesome couple + golden light = happy photographer.

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I love a good sillouette shot! This is from Amber and Joe’s session in Louisville.

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My favorite impromptu session of the year. I was meeting Cindel and Kent to go over wedding details and talked them into a mini session in the snow. This was one of the first snows of the winter back when I was thinking “oh this is so pretty” instead of today where I’m thinking “if it snows anymore I’m going to loose it” haha.

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There were alot that I loved from Rebecca and Nathan’s Indianapolis session, but the color in this silouette shot make me happy.

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My favorite from Emily and Tony’s Chicago skyline session!

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This session was sooooo cold! I thinking it was actually colder for this one than the one in the snow! Luckily Megan and Matt cuddled up for warmth.

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See what I mean about the rain not being a bad thing? This was a weird one because it was raining, but the sun was still out. Morgan and Mike were troopers throughout this session!

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