CHICAGO WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER: MELISSA MARIE PHOTOGRAPHY: INDEPENDENCE GROVE LIBERTYVILLE, IL. WEDDING: NICK + JENNA

Your wedding is one of the happiest days of your life. And for some, it's the happiest not for the reasons one may share on social but for quite the opposite, for some of the most personal of reasons. While some couples are waiting for their decor or shipment to arrive others are praying a loved one can make it all. I've grieved during weddings where the abscence is so heavy and I've shed happy tears along one's who the seat got to be taken in person.

Without a doubt, the most beautiful part of what I get to do isn't capturing pretty details—it's preserving the people. The embraces that linger a little longer. The glances exchanged across the room. Those are the images that grow in value with every passing year. They quietly remind us that the greatest gift on a wedding day isn't that everything was perfect, it's the people! Nick & Jenna, loved capturing you and your people on your incredible wedding day!