So does everyone remember a few months ago when I posted round 1 of Karen and Greg’s engagement pictures? (ok, click here if you don’t!) Well they wanted more fall pics before their upcoming (eep!! Karen are you ready??) wedding in mid-November.

So you’ll see a lot more of them on the blog! We decided to hit up Busse Woods in Schaumburg. Now I’d tell you the address, but there’s not really one and the one place we thought was an actual building turned out to be a few trailers (no joke).

This first one was caught and I don’t think Karen or Greg knew!

Love the Fall colors!

Ok, I feel the need I have to explain this picture for Karen and Greg’s sake! At their wedding shower, they were given these hats because Karen is a huge Friends fan and of course the rest of you out there understand that “they’re each others lobsters!”

big giant field = gorgeous.

love.

I’ll see you soon Karen and Greg!! And can you believe it’ll be your WEDDING DAY?! I look forward to photographing it for you!

Kara

I’m sure Jessica has been stalking this blog for these ever since we took them the last weekend of September! We decided to do what I call the Grant Park tour which takes us all the way around and ends up in Millennium Park I hope everyone has at least gone there ONCE! I feel like I’m there at least every week whether for engagements or weddings, but me and the cloud gate are good friends!

Jessica and Lane were so much fun and pretty much up for anything I would ask of them! Their wedding isn’t until Summer 2010 but it’s that time of year to get in engagement shoots!

::swoon::

there was a bit of contact involved in the walking picture, haha!

This was way too cute. I told Lane to sit and then for Jessica to sit in between his legs. She just plopped herself down in his lap!

Hope you enjoy them! I can’t wait to photograph your wedding next year!

Kara
kara@karaschultz.com

I met Lucy and Pete and we just went everywhere! They’re holding their wedding up at Byron Colby Barn in Grayslake (which is a fabulous place for wedding photography!) so they wanted some really downtown pictures and really wanted to incorporate certain buildings into it! It’s always great to meet people before photographing their wedding! It’s nice to get to know the couple and have them know me, I’m generally relaxed and laid back and they had me on the end of a long day of engagements! I’m sure Lucy has been stalking my blog for this and I’m sure she’ll do the same for her wedding photos!

we started in Lincoln Park at the Lily Pond right there:

We then headed over to State Street/Michigan Ave to finish up the session!

I really love this one!!

Thanks for looking! I can’t wait to photograph your wedding Lucy and Pete! You both were a bunch of fun and laughs!

Kara
kara@karaschultz.com

I met Loretta and Aaron in Wrigleyville to start their engagement session. I can’t wait to photograph their wedding!! I’m so excited to be their photographer because these two are a riot! They laugh, they cry, they skip. I can’t imagine what their wedding day will bring, but it sure enough will be a load of fun! Ok, enough of me, let’s get to their engagement pictures!

Look at how fun they were!

I usually don’t take pictures like this, but I LOVE this one!!

and then Loretta cried, it was so cute! I wonder if she’ll cry at her wedding? She thinks she’s going to be a mess!

this was totally unplanned

I hope you enjoyed these Loretta and Aaron, I truly had a great time with you for your engagement session and I can’t wait until I photograph your wedding! I’m sure it will be 10x more fun!

Kara
kara@karaschultz.com

Kim and Rob are such an awesome couple and their wedding isn’t until mid 2010! Their wedding is going to be so much fun as well, when I first met with Kim and Rob we spent like 2 hours talking after I had finished up a wedding and they dealt with my mumblings! We connected at that moment!

They were seriously up for anything that I asked of them. And by the end of the day, I asked for a lot! But if I suggest it early enough, you know it’s a good idea at the end of the day! We started out on Rob’s rooftop where they got engaged and then Kim’s dad drove us around to take pictures all over Museum Campus and Millennium Park for a final stop. I really can’t wait to photograph their wedding next year!

We spent a lot of time around the Shedd located at: 1200 S Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL?

GO BEARS!!

Look at the air Kim got in those heels!!

museum campus engagement photo

we headed to Millennium Park for some photos in the fountain!

I love Rob in this one!

I did start the session by saying they should go in the fountain, and by the end of it, they knew it was a good idea!

and an after shot!

I hope you guys enjoyed these! Sorry for the long wait!!

Kara
kara@karaschultz.com

Jessie and Mike are getting married this Saturday! Cutting it a bit close for engagement photos but they wanted to get them in anyway! Their lovely pup Kaya (I had the name totally wrong!) crashed the session and made it interesting for sure but still a lot of fun!

see you on saturday!!

Kar

I met Kirsten and Will down in Chinatown for their engagement session and let me tell you, it was SO much fun!! We walked around since I haven’t been down there in YEARS. Unfortunately I couldn’t eat some amazing food with them because I had to head to another session! But let me tell you, this was FUN. So much fun, I processed their images a little more gritty, or should I say….dirty!

they also were patient while I tried out my new lensbaby-tilt-shift-lens

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Ah! Love these!

Kar

So Megan and Jeremy opted to go to one of my favorite photo places in the suburbs and that’s Cantigny in Wheaton! I love that place, perfectly sculpted gardens all year long, great grounds and it’s not crowded, not even on the weekends! I need to buy a pass for next year! That’s for sure!

We laughed a lot, in fact looking back on the pictures, Megan and Jeremy were cracking up! I didn’t know I was that funny, and I’m sure I’m not!

my fav

boys love tanks.

can’t wait to see you next JUNE!

Kar

Karen and Greg have probably been checking relentlessly for their blog post! Their schedule unfortunately hit mine during the pretty rough season of August! But now that that’s over, I had to get out their engagement session! I had a lot of fun with them as they even survived my golf cart driving! Karen and I were talking and were joking about me being the adopt-a-friend for a day when it comes to weddings, which is VERY true! I’m with you from usually the beginning of your day while you get into your dress through the heat or cold or rain or whatever! Karen joked that she hired me because she knew she could deal with me all day, HA! I am pretty laid back for sure. We got their session in just in time before the skies opened up and it started raining!

Their session was located at Kemper Lakes located at 24000 North Old McHenry Road
Hawthorn Woods, IL 60047-8922 (847) 320-3450 Kildeer/Hawthorn Woods IL. They had their shower there since the room was too small to host their large wedding! They took advantage of the gorgeous location for their engagement session! It would be just a wonderful place to have a wedding I’m sure and it was a dream to photograph.

Kar

Amanda and Steve met me one late afternoon at Redfield Estates at 1421 North Milwaukee Avenue Glenview, IL 60025-1436 – (847) 298-0095. We were shocked to find a wedding in progress while we wandered the grounds and I’m sure it would just be lovely to photograph! Luckily the bugs stayed away this time as I brought some bug spray

some deer decided to join the session!

Steve happily made silly faces to make Amanda laugh!

More soon again

Kar