Audrey & Mark :: Wedding

Corlis Gray — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 14:36:36 +0000

When it comes to beautiful ceremonies, this one takes the cake! This beautiful wedding began at Starved Rock State Park in Utica, IL. The ceremony and this exquisite church was located near LaSalle, IL. Finally, the reception took place at Oak Ridge Golf Club in Seneca, IL. As a Chicago wedding photographer I get the opportunity to travel to a lot of wonderful locations all over Illinois. These are some of the best when it comes to rustic beauty!

The natural light coming through the stained glass in this church was simply amazing. It allowed me to shoot without a flash and capture all of the shadow and light detail. What I love about this photograph is stunning shimmer of the gold wall.

Shooting from the organ/choir loft here gave me a different perspective and allowed me to capture more of the detail of this beautiful wall.

The shallow depth of field in this image draws your attention to the emotion in Audrey and Marks faces without losing the beauty of the background.

Here the architectural detail of the balcony adds to the drama of this high fashion group shot.

Getting down low and using the low sun to silhouette

Thank you guys for the wonderful time! We had a great time taking the golf carts for a ride and freezing our butts off LOL.

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Ben & Abigail :: Wedding

Corlis Gray — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:36:44 +0000

Ben is a VERY talented pianist in Chicago. Abigail studies monkeys in Africa. When I put it that way you might assume these two couldn’t be more different, but you’d be wrong. Being that Ben is a musician, and his name isn’t P-Diddy or John Mayer, he isn’t exactly making billions. Abigail is, what I consider to be a genius of sorts, holding something like 1,000,000 degrees in anthropology, so she’ll be paying off school bills until her grand-kids have grand-kids. They don’t have all the money in the world. What they do have in excess is LOVE. Not just any kind of love. Hot pink, Hollywood, roman candle, kinda love. I thought I knew what love was until I met these two.

So being that they have more school loans than the U.S. deficit, but all the love in the world (literally). God was smiling on them one day and led them to me. I just so happen to do 3 pro bono weddings per year for couples in exactly their predicament. After reading the most heart warming email from Abby, I decided to meet with them.

We met in a little coffee shop in Morris, IL called Brewed Awakenings. From there we sat over a couple hot cups of joe and got to know each other. The rest is history.

Here is their wedding shot in Seneca, IL. Just a couple hours outside of Chicago.

The shallow depth of field and the grainyness of this image really add an artistic feel to this image that I love.

There is nothing better than capturing the true happiness and excitement of a bride.

Ben and Abbi, I just can’t say enough great things about you guys. You are two very wonderful people and I wish you all the best throughout your lives.

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