CHICAGO NORTH AVENUE BEACH ENGAGEMENT PHOTOS: CHICAGO WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER: MELISSA MARIE PHOTOGRAPHY: COREY + VIVIAN

If you’re from around Chicago you know there is absolutely no rhyme or reason to the traffic. It could be 2AM on a Tuesday and be bumper to bumper or randomly have the fastest commute of your life during the peak of a work day. I always double the amount of time the GPS says because there should just be a setting where Siri quietly whispers just kidding over the voice of the directions because you just don’t really know. So of course, my should be 45min commute (which I double for safe keeping, 1.5 hours) still wasn’t enough! It took 2hrs and 10 min!! Ya’ll…1.5 hours of that was 11 miles. I literally could have ran that faster. WITH my gear!  So a little brutal but just when I’m about to write off Chicago it goes ahead and does this…

A full low moon over the cotton candy sunset. setting the blue Lake Michigan ablaze. The lights of the skyline like stars peaking as the sun goes down. I mean….just insanely beautiful! Which is why it was a real good spot for Corey to propose here and then for them to take engagement pics here.