I’m a Chicago & destination photographer creating candid, editorial images for multifaceted couples who want a calm, intentional experience.
Chicago & destination photographer · Candid · Editorial
Candid, editorial photography for Chicago elopements, proposals, engagements, intimate celebrations, and stories beyond the city.
Thoughtfully planned and honestly photographed, so you can spend less time managing the experience and more time being present inside it.
The Unroyal experience
You want images that feel thoughtful and elevated—but you also want to recognize yourselves in them.
I bring careful preparation, calm communication, and natural direction to every experience. You will know what to expect without being asked to perform, manage every detail, or fit your story into someone else’s formula.
The result is a collection that holds the polished moments, the unguarded ones, and every version of you in between.
Ways to work together
Each experience is shaped around what you are planning, what matters most, and how you want the photographs to feel.
01 · Elopements
Thoughtful planning support and candid, editorial photography for couples creating a celebration around what matters to them.
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02 · Proposals
Discreet photography, location and timing guidance, and a practical plan that helps you stay present when the moment arrives.
Plan your proposal
03 · Engagements
A relaxed portrait experience with location guidance, natural direction, and room for movement, connection, and play.
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The Unroyal difference
Unroyal Images is designed for people with full lives, layered identities, and no desire to turn a meaningful moment into another project to manage.
My role is to understand what matters to you, prepare carefully, narrow unnecessary decisions, and create enough structure for you to relax inside the experience.
Thoughtful recommendations instead of an overwhelming menu of options.
Enough guidance to feel confident without turning the moment into a performance.
Intentional composition and beautiful light without losing personality or real emotion.
Photographs that hold more than one side of you and more than only the conventionally perfect moments.
Selected work
A glimpse of the composed, candid, quiet, playful, and wonderfully unplanned moments that make every story distinct.
View the portfolioWhat to expect
You do not need to arrive with every detail decided. We will shape the photography experience around what you know, what matters, and what you are still figuring out.
Share your date, location, priorities, and anything you already know. A complete plan is not required.
I’ll recommend the experience and coverage that best fit your plans instead of asking you to decode an overwhelming menu.
Depending on the service, we’ll work through timing, location, light, wardrobe, logistics, and weather alternatives.
I’ll offer direction when it helps and step back when the moment needs room. Your job is not to perform.
Behind the lens
Photographer, traveler, former BigLaw attorney, and someone who has never fit neatly into one category.
I studied neuroscience, spent time abroad in Ireland, earned a law degree, and practiced in BigLaw before building a photography business that aligns with who I fully am.
That path taught me to prepare carefully, communicate clearly, remain steady when plans shift, and recognize how exhausting an unclear process can feel.
I bring that same thoughtfulness to photography—creating enough structure for you to feel supported and enough freedom for the experience to remain yours.
Meet Queen
Destination · Travel
Whether you are exchanging vows somewhere new, returning to a place that means something to you, or documenting a meaningful journey, I photograph both the beauty of the setting and the feeling of being there.
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Ready when you are
You do not need to have every detail figured out. Tell me what you know, what you are still deciding, and what you want the photographs to hold.
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