Saturday Martin and I had the honor of photographing Susan and Bryan's wedding at the newly remodeled Palmer House Hilton in Chicago.  It was the first wedding in 50 years to be held in the Honoree Ballroom.  It's always a little scary photographing the wedding of someone in the industry...but Susan was so relaxed and fun to work with (so was Bryan)!  Check out the last shot of the great car they bought me ( I said it was OK for them to borrow it for the wedding)  

 

It's the day before the big wedding.  As you can see by this photo, Photo Images is a full service studio.  Here I am "helping" to build the gate that will be erected at the bride's family's home to welcome the groom's family the morning of the wedding. 

Yes that is an axe in my hand and I do still have all my fingers! 
We spent part of the morning going over the schedule for the wedding and boy do we have it easy in Chicago.  We will begin getting ready photos at 10am (3am Chicago) and will continue through the reception.  The musicians at the reception are booked until 6:30am  Sunday morning.  Talk about overtime!  Well it should be a lot of fun, we have some great locations to shoot at and hope that our batteries (and mine) keep going and going and going...

More later

     WOW! This was my 8th AMAZING event for the Reich Family.  It was an incredible night!  We went a few years without a Debbie party... but she has definately not lost her touch.  Stephanie looked amazing (ok Casey looked pretty good too).   The entire Reich Family was as gracious and as much fun as always.   Weddings, Inc. never ceases to amaze!  Michael Lerich kept everyone on their feet until the wee hours of the morning. Here are a few images from  the day. Now I need to get some sleep ...