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Like Morticia & Gomez themselves, this Addams Family engagement shoot is #couplesgoals

Katrina and Catherine are wives, crafters, and costumers from Chicago. They take both decorating and relationship advice from Gomez and Morticia Addams (because who wouldn’t?!). They are relationship goals as are these two cuties. Here’s the scoop on their last-minute Addams Family engagement shoot that made us swoon…

Chicago couples: want a rad music venue with award winning food? Lincoln Hall is the ONE

Lincoln Hall is Chicago’s rad music venue with award-winning food

As a Chicagoan myself, I know the north side’s Lincoln Hall as a city classic that’s one of the best music venues in the city. Lincoln Hall has also been placed in the top 20 best music venues in the country by Rolling Stone Magazine, and previously voted #1 music venue in Chicago by TimeOut Chicago Magazine. It also has award winning food and one of the most impressive spaces to host a wedding I’ve ever seen.

Heroes in love: a comic book themed microwedding in Chicago

Heroes in love: a comic book themed microwedding in Chicago

Marcus and Rigo are comic book super fans and it showed in their spectacular comic book themed microwedding. There were loads of DIYed details like the paper flowers, table runners, and centerpieces all made from comic book pages. Even their programs had a caricature illustration done of the two of them to look like a comic book cover. Don’t miss the superhero-themed sweets table, taco bar buffet (with rosemart margaritas!), and their unity margarita ceremony.

Haunted romance: a moody Halloween evening of medical and mortuary science

Haunted romance: a moody Halloween evening of medical and mortuary science

Halloween fell on a Thursday and we fell in love with two separate venues so we decided to have it be a two-day event: the International Museum of Surgical Science was the perfect setting for our ceremony while we had our reception at Jacob Henry Mansion. The mansion matched our tastes exactly and was the perfect backdrop for an Autumn evening celebration. I lovingly refer to our wedding as a "haunted romance."