This is my first Emily & Michael of 2009. What’s really funny is that I was anticipating this particular Emily’s email inquiry for wedding photography last summer. I finally got an email from Emily getting married at the end of summer and I wrote back immediately thanking her and telling her I was waiting for her email! But oops, wrong Emily! (Don’t worry, she booked me too!) The right Emily finally emailed a few weeks later and we got it all sorted out.
Emily and Michael had a wonderfully intimate ceremony at Old Saint Patrick’s followed by a quick stop with the wedding party at Union Station and a longer, but animated and fun limo bus ride to the Katherine Legge Memorial Lodge in Hinsdale for the reception. And I must point out their wedding party had the best snacks I have ever witnessed on the limo bus.
Some people like cake and some people don’t. Emily and Michael fall under the latter category and decided to go all out on pie. They had a pie buffet with Chocolate Silk, Lemon Meringue AND Key Lime pies. They were all delicious. Yes, I tasted all three flavors.
After all the guests devoured the pies, everyone headed upstairs for more cocktails and dancing and talk about a rip roaring party, the dance floor is an entire room on the second floor of the lodge and it was packed the entire time!
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Ceremony: Old Saint Patrick’s, Chicago, IL
Reception: Katherine Legge Memorial Lodge, Hinsdale, IL
Band: 312 Chicago from Stitely Entertainment, Chicago, IL
Caterer: D’Masti Catering, Blue Island, IL