The goddess photographer Nancy Beale of Studio This Is dropped by last summer to shoot the flowers from our Chicago flower farm. Nancy is like the John Singer Sargent of wedding photography, an alchemist of light. In an effort to get myself off of my phone this winter, I signed up for every flower …
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Foam-Free Pandemic Wedding
Last year, when the Covid-19 pandemic swept all of our events away, just this one backyard wedding remained. There is a magnitude to micro-weddings that is indescribably romantic. Love, moving forward humbly in the midst of so much uncertainty, conquers all. We are grateful to our beautiful clients for persevering in having their wedding and …
Pandemic as a Portal
This past summer in Chicago was the hottest summer on record, but how does a Chicago flower farmer even begin to talk about climate change without sounding like a pious pollyanna or a doomsday Debbie Downer on someone’s wedding day? I believe flowers have regenerative powers, and that the decision to limit the importation of …
North Shore wedding in July
As an only child, I always wanted a sister more than anything in the world, or to be a cat. One of my favorite aspects of this business is how intensely collaborative it is, and working so closely with clients and colleagues allows for a kind of familial intimacy that I treasure. This was the …
Prairie Chic Wedding
As a proper Chicago girl, I’ve been raised to revere Jens Jensen, the Scandinavian landscape architect who designed so many of the city’s treasures- Garfield Park, Columbus Park, the fern room at the Garfield Park Conservatory. His ethos of celebrating the prairie’s own native loveliness, working with the native landscape rather than against it, was …
Fall Wedding at the Chicago Club
Some weddings fall together effortlessly, and this was one of them. With every passing year, my business attracts lovelier and lovelier clientele and this gorgeous bride was no exception to this happy trend. She chose the Chicago Club in part due to the mega glorious new roof top they’ve unveiled with stunning, supervillain views …