All You Need is Love...and a picket fence?

Stephanie and Sena are both meek, humble and truly sweet people and we met them for the first time on the day of their engagement session. They found out about us through an online forum  on The Knot where one of our brides sung high praises about us- thank you Lindsay, and being that they live in Chicago we were commissioned by them last year via the good old fashioned telephone to photograph their upcoming wedding the end of this month.  Since they are from out of town and had no specific attachement to location, Scott and I decided to challenge ourselves with taking the ordinary scenes and neighborhoods we drive through everyday and turn it into something extraordinary and the results  excited us both! With a little bit of forethought and some planning we scoutted a few spots along the way to the beautiful local town of Ridgewood and captured Stephanie and Sena strolling along the daffodil lined picket fences of small town suburbia. We brought along some props as well including a gorgeous bouquet I had made earlier that morning at our local Whole Foods. Their floral department works wonders for me all the time! It was wonderful to get to know them better and find out what sparked their deep love and devotion for one another.

If you ever doubt whether an enagement session is something worth taking the time to dress up for and get your makeup done and have some fun may we cast that doubt deep into the bottomless ocean. Both Sena and Stephanie told us how they feel a tremendous sense of relief having spent the afternoon into evening with us and now they know their wedding day will feel calm, smooth and comfortable knowing how well we all gelled together ;-)

Thanks Stephanie and Sena for being such amazing peeps...we love you!

I absolutely love her eyes!

We love bringing out the lines and curves of the architecture that surrounds us and there was certainly plenty of that at Ridgewood Train Station!

One of my favorite images...Stephanie wrote to us she wanted to capture something that showed fast moving things in the background and them standing still "poetically reflecting our stable love for each other"...isn't she adorable!