Maddy & Brendan, Engagement Session at Elmwood Dunes in Wilmette, IL

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Meredith & Dylan, Whimsical Wedding at Café Brauer, Lincoln Park, Chicago

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The Wedding Team:

Simon & Audrey, Engagement Session at Milton Lee Olive Park Beach, Chicago, IL

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Julie & Matt, Winter Wedding at The Glen View Club, Glenview, IL

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Kind words from the couple:

“We had the best time looking through these and reminiscing.  You guys captured the day perfectly with all the joy and love. Can’t wait to share with everyone!!  Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, pictures we are going to cherish forever. We love you guys!!”

The Wedding Team:

Erin & Andrew, Classic Wedding at Theater on the Lake, Chicago, IL

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Kind words from the couple:

“We just spent some time looking through the photos and we are blown away by your amazing work! So many photos brought us right back to the moment and even had us shedding happy tears! We can't thank you enough. Your team is truly amazing and we are so grateful to have had you both there to capture our day!”

The Wedding Team:

Heath + Jenn (Video)

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It's been a bit since we've posted some of our recent video work, but without further ado, here it is! Heath and Jenn got married earlier this spring, and were some of the loveliest people we've ever worked with. It was a laid back, intimate and elegant affair, and to our delight, it was 100% a Chicago wedding: they got ready at the Blackstone Hotel on Michigan Ave., had their first look just south of Grant Park, took photos with the cityscape background at Montrose Harbor, were wed in St. Paul's Lutheran Church, and had their after party at the award-winning Sepia. 

It is one of our greatest joys in life to work with people who, you can just tell, truly adore each other, and this day was no exception. We look forward to sharing the photos we took of Heath and Jenn's wedding next week, and hope you enjoy and can see the love we captured between these two in the video below. Cheers to the newlyweds!

New Year, New Look!

 

Can I start with a story? Or rather, a back-story.

Two years ago, a boy (Me, Andrew) and a girl (Marianne) sat at a dusty, wooden table in the heat of rural Uganda. Madly in love, and doing the work we loved, together. We had gotten engaged a few months earlier, but I was still on assignment as a photojournalist for another six months abroad, so we made do with occasional visits, choppy Skype dates, and a whole lot of dreaming of the future. Our future.

So we decided, right there and then, to start our own photography and videography business. Because hey, why wouldn't we want to spend every waking minute together, doing what we loved? And where better to make really important life decisions than the bush in Africa, exhausted and all sweaty? We drew up a logo, whipped together a site, and for the past two years have been living this crazy ride called Nicodem Creative.

And it has been amazing. Challenging, mind-blowing, joyful and tear-filled (mostly on my part).

But we realized, in the crush of it all, that with this gaining momentum what we really needed was some added direction. Like that first, tentative step out onto the ice, we've realized that it's going to hold and we need to decide what to do now that we're out on it. So we hunkered down for a few days this last summer, we dreamed, we schemed, we talked about where we've been and where we want to go, and we've come out swinging, ready for what's next!

So welcome to the new and improved Nicodem Creative. Take a look around, we hope you like what you see. But know this: while the surface has gotten a make-over, the heart behind it remains the same. To give the world around us its beautiful due, and tell stories that are truly life-changing. 

We are Nicodem Creative. And we've started dreaming anew.