Chicago Wedding Photography | Melissa Diep Blog

Hello everyone. I want to announce that I'm working on a new blog. It's www.MelissaDiep.net. It won't be ready for another couple of weeks so therefore I won't be posting anything new here. So stay tuned...

Westmont Photographer | Ria and Mike Plus 1

This is my second time photographing Ria, Mike and Devon. Last time was about 6 months ago. It's always a blast seeing all three of them again. I'm just happy I was able to witness and capture Devon's first trip to the playground and his fascination with sand!!

Barrington Baby Portraits | Lil C

Lil C got his name from his uncle Big C. Big C is Giant's best friend and also best man at our wedding. It was fun photographing this family. Even more fun for us stuffing Lil C in this tiny box. Thank you Angela (Lil C's mom) for allowing me to capture this precious moment!!! I love you guys!!! Not you "Big C"!!

A Chicago Wedding Photographer's Wedding

Hello. I'm back from my honeymoon. Very jet lagged and extremely tired but still floating and happy! I hear from a lot of couples that their wedding day flies right by. Months, week, and even days leading up to the wedding I was not a bit nervous. My friends were more nervous for me!! Some people even said that I'll probably freak out the day of. Nope! I think because I was so calm about everything was the reason why I was able to enjoy our day. I remember everything about it from the moment I woke up next to Giant to friends coming over our place after the reception. As promised, here are some of my wedding pictures I'd like to share with you. We had three photographers (actually 5 if you want to include Mili and Sid) and here's images from two of them.

First one is from Ray Pryor from www.Emotia.com. He was AWESOME!!! I was so touched that after our ceremony, he held a parasol over me to shield me from the beating sun to keep my makeup from running. And as a present to us before we take off to our honeymoon, he emailed me our pictures!!! We were shocked!! He spent the entire day after the wedding working on the pictures!! Thank you Ray with every fiber of our being for capturing a really important day in our life.

Here's a slideshow of his present to us...

http://www.emotia.com/client/melissa-michael/

These second set of images are from my BFF of over 15 yrs, Apple Umali. Not only was she the maid of honor to our wedding, she was also one of our many photogs. She managed to squeeze in these pictures while being crazy/entertainer at the same time. Photography has always been a hobby of hers but she decided to get down and SERIOUS for our wedding. Thank you my BFF for capturing our wedding. I told my husband (aka Giant and Michael) that he now has two wives. Me and Apple!!

























I'm still waiting on pictures from Bobby Aazami and cinematography from Memories In Motion (Mili and Sid Ghosh). I'll post those once I receive them. Next on the list, a trash the dress session with Ray, Mili, and Sid in August. Can't wait!!