John Andrews Photography http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com fine art photojournalism Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:13:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 en The First Dance - Chris Sernel http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/07/05/the-first-dance-chris-sernel/ http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/07/05/the-first-dance-chris-sernel/#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:12:12 +0000 Andrew http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/07/05/the-first-dance-chris-sernel/ This is a followup post from my prior post about Chris & Kim’s wedding.

I just wanted to take a quick moment to highlight something that I thought was just so insanely awesome that happened at the wedding. Chris is a songwriter, producer and super talented musician. He is also the frontman for the Chicago band Escape From Earth - which if you have not heard, drop what you are doing right now and check out their website and even check out their albums on iTunes!

Escape From Earth - Official Site
Escape From Earth - MySpace
Escape From Earth - iTunes

Chris wrote and recorded the song to be used for his and Kim’s first dance at the wedding. The song was/is awesome and there wasn’t a dry eye in the house when all of this took place.

I created a smaller slideshow of the wedding day set to Chris’ song. Do take a quick moment to check it out!

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-Andrew

]]> http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/07/05/the-first-dance-chris-sernel/feed/ Congratulations Chris & Kim! http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/07/05/congratulations-chris-kim/ http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/07/05/congratulations-chris-kim/#comments Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:50:03 +0000 Andrew http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/07/05/congratulations-chris-kim/ Chris & Kim have an interesting story. They’ve been dating for 16ish years and finally tied the knot! Kim is one of my wife’s very good friends and I was honored to be asked to document their wedding day. Aside from my wife standing up in the wedding and giving me all of her creative input (cough, cough, instructions all day :) ) the day could have not gone better. (Just kidding honey!).

I’m going to follow up this post with another one specifically about Chris - very cool story line there.

Anyway, the ceremony was held at Willow Creek Community Church in Barrington, IL. The reception was held at the Holiday Inn in Rosemont which has a very cool Penthouse style banquet hall.

Chris & Kim are a very special couple and I wish them the very best in the years to come!

Take a look at some of my favorite shots from the day as well as a slideshow…

-Andrew

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]]> http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/07/05/congratulations-chris-kim/feed/ Jack & Margot E-Session! http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/06/30/jack-margot-e-session/ http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/06/30/jack-margot-e-session/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:12:32 +0000 Andrew http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/06/30/jack-margot-e-session/ Jack and Margot are another couple that is getting married about a month from now and we were finally able to get in an engagement session. Actually we brought along their super cute dog and he joined in on the photo action :)

We had a fun time walking around and snapping some relaxed portraits in their cozy neighborhood in Evanston.

Here are a few shots from the session!

-Andrew

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]]> http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/06/30/jack-margot-e-session/feed/ Congratulations Michael & Violet! http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/06/17/congratulations-michael-violet/ http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/06/17/congratulations-michael-violet/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:40:58 +0000 Andrew http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/06/17/congratulations-michael-violet/ I shot a wonderful wedding for Michael and Violet a couple weeks ago. We had a beautiful day in between all the soggy Chicago weather. The ceremony took place at St. Mary of the Angels in Chicago, with a reception at Beveldere Chateau Banquets in Palos Hills. It was a really cool Polish heritage infused reception - super fun since I’m mostly Polish myself :) Be sure to checkout the slideshow link below to see some of the great reception shots.

I’d also like to thank Jim for coming out to second shoot for me!

Take a look at some of my favorite shots from the day as well as a slideshow!

-Andrew

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]]> http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/06/17/congratulations-michael-violet/feed/ Jim & Caryn E-Session! http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/06/17/jim-caryn-e-session/ http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/06/17/jim-caryn-e-session/#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:26:53 +0000 Andrew http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/06/17/jim-caryn-e-session/ Jim and Caryn will be getting married in a few short weeks. We were able to sneak in an engagement session downtown in between all of the rain that we’ve been getting around Chicago! Caryn was able to get permission to do some shots at Wrigley Field! Caryn is a super huge Cubs fan and is trying to rub some of that off on Jim :)

Here are a few shots from the awesome session!

-Andrew

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]]> http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/06/17/jim-caryn-e-session/feed/ Joe & Andrea E-Session! http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/06/07/joe-andrea-e-session/ http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/06/07/joe-andrea-e-session/#comments Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:06:23 +0000 Andrew http://blog.johnandrewsphotography.com/2008/06/07/joe-andrea-e-session/ Joe and Andrea are getting married a little later this year and we were finally able to get out and shoot some engagement photos. We headed into the city and went for a long walk grabbing shots where ever we found something cool. We were also able to get on the rooftop of a friends condo building to get a couple nice s