So technically my 6 year business anniversary is tomorrow, but since it’s Easter weekend and I’ll be driving home I’m going to go ahead and post this today.

Last year at this time I wrote an insanely long post recapping the first five years of business (you can see that HERE) so I promise to keep it shorter this time. I went back and looked through all the weddings from this year and all the facebook posts etc. and got a little emotional, but since I already did my whole series of Favorites from 2013 I won’t go back through all that. This post is really to announce my the launch of my new site!

Over the last couple of years I’ve been forming this idea in my head of starting a second site that is just dedicated to elopements and smaller weekday weddings. After shooting a few of these weddings I was hooked. Don’t get me wrong I still love a big blowout wedding, but there is something so simple and intimate about a wedding of 20 people on a Thursday.

So after much labor, planning, frustrations, joys and tax forms and phone calls to government agencies I’m happy to announce that:

a) I’m now an LLC – Becky Brown Enterprises LLC to be exact and

b) the idea has become a reality and www.elopetochicago.com is born!

It is still a work in progress and I’m teaming up with amazing local vendors to create simple packages to make the planning process even easier. If you’re a vendor or venue that is interested in catering to weekday couples contact me!

Right now I will only be offering these services for Monday- Friday weddings of 50 people or less.                                                                                            My Saturdays are still reserved for larger weddings 🙂

And now for my thank  you’s…..

My Family – Mom, Dad, Dan & Sarah : Thank you for your constant love and support. For helping me pick out logos, listening to my wedding stories, helping me load and upload gear a million times over the years, packing me sandwiches for weddings (Mom), giving me marketing advice (Sarah) and much much more.

My Friends – Thank you for letting me bounce ideas off of you about marketing etc. and supporting my business by sending referrals my way over the years. To Mia in particular – thank you for being my sidekick at my bridal shows!

My Boyfriend – Thank you Chris for listening to all my amazing stories about weddings, I know you love them all and are on the edge of your seat for all of thm (insert sarcasm). And thank you for putting up with my crazy schedule that involves me being MIA many weeekends of the year.

My Assistants – Robyn, Allie, Renata and Leslie : Thank you for all your help over the years! Thank you for being my second set of eyes and trying to calm me down when I have 10 minutes to do 50 family photos haha.

My Previous couples and their families – Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your wedding days. I wouldn’t be where I am without you…. for real. I’ve gotten to meet and work with so many amazing people over the years! Thank you for sharing your images and sending friends my way. There is nothing I love more than seeing my previous couples at new weddings I’m shooting!

Rachel Brenke – Thank you for your amazing advice and support that was the kick in the butt I needed to finally get this business up and going. For my fellow photographers if you don’t know who Rachel is you should check her out – http://www.thelawtog.com/

Joao – Thank you to my amazing graphic designer who worked his butt off perfecting the new logo’s for my site and the Elope site!

And since no post is complete without visuals here are those two amazing logos !!

Thanks again to everyone…… I can’t wait until this point next year to report in how it’s going!

Becky