How they met: “We met at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as undergrads. We didn’t know each other well, but ran back into each other several years after graduating in Chicago. Michael had to work pretty hard to get a first date, but once he did the rest was history.” How he proposed: “Melanie […]

Summer 2012: After college, Katie’s roommates had a friend from UW Madison come visit. Enter Jake. Shortly after the visit, Katie + Jake started dating. August 2017: Five years later, in their apartment, Jake asked Katie to marry him. The first gift she gave him was a Harry Potter themed mug. So that morning, he […]

When you ask Kevin, he will tell you the proposal planning process started eight years ago when him and Maureen first met after which he admitted to his mom that he could see himself marrying this girl. Fast forward eight amazing years and we arrive at Maureen’s 26th birthday. After a full day out on […]

I photographed Patrice + Kevin’s Engagement session in September of 2018 at Cantigny Park. We’d never met in person, so it was a beautiful mixture of getting to know each other and capturing their relationship with my camera. We laughed and explored the park, even seeing some peacocks, but most of all – we got […]

Jackie + Colin knew each other in college, but the timing wasn’t right until Tinder intervened. After finally both being single at the same time, they ran into each other on Tinder and exchanged numbers to meet up. They met at a bar called Mcguinans – which is where Colin proposed a few years later. […]

Courtney + Joey matched on Coffee Meets Bagel in January of 2016 and exchanged a simple, “hey whats up?” After about a week, Joey asked Courtney if she wanted to meet up with him and some friends downtown. After politely declining ‘a night out with the bros,’ Courtney realized they had a mutual friend and […]

Now that it’s the new year, our wedding stuff is over, and I’m tying up allllll the loose ends that went undone last year due to the craziness of planning two weddings in the middle of wedding season – I’m back to the blog. This week – Desi + Justin at Armour House in Lake […]

2018 will definitely be a year I never forget. The JTP team expanded to four, count ’em 1-2-3-4, photographers and we added two video teams and a photo booth. We documented over 30 weddings, I got engaged, and married (twice in five months). I spent time with family and friends, traveled to Canada, Belize, Texas, […]

It’s so crazy to be sharing photos from MY wedding on here today! I love sharing all of your wedding stories on the blog, each couple is different and always brings a different spin to the wedding day. Our day was no different – we tried to incorporate little details that were meaningful to US […]

Ada + Charlie’s wedding was one of those days you don’t forget. The 90s-2000s throwbacks all day long, the choreographed dance by the whole wedding party, and the moment Charlie saw his wife for the first time and burst into tears. It was a day full of love – and I’m so excited to share […]