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Hi friends!  I'm Jill and I'm so glad you stopped by.

 I'm a wedding and portrait photographer based out of Chicago and Central Illinois.  Grab a coffee (or my favorite, a coke!) and take a look around this site at the beautiful people who let me tell their stories through images, as well as a little peek into our everyday life!

MARRIAGE MONDAYS : GREAT HOLIDAY ACTIVITIES WITH YOUR LOVE ...But they may not be what you think...

After a completely packed wedding season (and musical before that) that has kept us constantly on the move for the past 9 months, Michael and I got a completely welcomed and needed day together yesterday!  Each December, we make sure to find one day, our December Date day, to spend together doing some holiday things and making some […]

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December 5, 2016

MARRIAGE MONDAYS : 5 LESSONS WE LEARNED AT WEDDINGS IN 2016 Words, Tone, Winner, Choice, and Time

Blog post topics are something that are always in the back of my mind, and I am constantly writing and re-writing each in my head before sharing them here.  The problem is that sometimes my best versions happen at a time that I can’t write them down- and then I forget!  While I was writing […]

November 21, 2016

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MARRIAGE MONDAYS Sunday School or Couch Shopping?

Yesterday, we photographed our last 2016 wedding. We love photographing weddings together. I have told Michael many times that I am not sure if I would love it as much (and I’m sure I would have missed those 19 Saturdays at home MUCH more) without him as my main second shooter.  But it leads to some schedule complications, as […]

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November 14, 2016

MARRIAGE MONDAYS What comes first: The Chicken or the Egg?

You know something that is pretty tough for me to work out?  Figuring out when to prioritize Michael and I and when to prioritize our family (as in, our kids). The truth is, sometimes I think one is the same as the other.  And sometimes I think that prioritizing Michael and I IS prioritizing our family- because as a child […]

August 29, 2016

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MARRIAGE MONDAYS : THE LITTLE THINGS A new series with some thoughts on marriage

A couple weeks ago, I started a new series here that I am pretty excited about (read the first post here!) celebrating the highs and lows of marriage through OUR marriage. This specific post grew out of something I experienced last week and I knew it was the next piece I wanted to write about in […]

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June 27, 2016

MARRIAGE MONDAYS A new series with some thoughts on marriage

One of the reasons I most love photographing weddings, one of the things that makes up my “why” for being a wedding photographer, is my passion for marriage.  For people to enter into it smartly, for couples to recognize it is more of a choice than anything, for them to find joy in the day to day […]

May 15, 2016

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THE COMMUNICATION KEY Marriage Monday

Well, I haven’t published a Marriage Mondays post since before E3 was born…and he’s two.  It’s been a LONG time, but it feels great to contribute to this Marriage Series on my blog again because I think it’s so important, and because I love it!  I actually got the idea for this post while watching the […]

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March 2, 2020

MAMAHOOD | TWO TO THREE KIDS How's that going anyways?!

Confession time: I am not getting out blog posts nearly as often as I had hoped.  It isn’t that I had some strange misconception about how much work time I could have– as a third time mom (which is what I’m going to be sharing about today!), I think my expectations were pretty realistic based on […]

February 21, 2018

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ASK ANYTHING: SO YOU WANT TO START BLOGGING? How to get started

It is no secret, perhaps because of the usually 4 days a week that I have been blogging for almost 2 years, that I am a big fan of it.  While I do love to write, blogging that much isn’t easy at all- it is hard for me to come up with regularly useful content, and […]

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January 30, 2017

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