Laura & Tom | Wisconsin Club and Gesu Wedding Photographer

Laura & Tom are musicians, or at least were when they met in the band at Northwestern, but it wasn’t just a taste for good music that struck me on their wedding day, but rather a taste for good everything. They mixed modern sensibility and design with old world charm in everything from the wispy, romantic flowers to nostalgic art deco wedding invitations. Laura wore her mom’s dress re-imagined and re-designed for today and Tom checked his pocket watch now and then while bridesmaids followed them about in JCrew chic simplicity. They meandered from the wedding cake architecture of the Wisconsin Club to the Church of the Gesu where Laura’s cousin presided over their union and by way of the city’s lakefront and Riverwalk back to the Club and tables named for L Stops. They live in Chicago where we did their fall engagement session last year but made Milwaukee home for the weekend and I adored the little surprises they had for my lenses. Laura embroidered messages to bridesmaids in their gifted clutches and they performed a choreographed first dance (with lifts!) They served tasty cobblers and pies in lieu of cake and they simply did things the way they wanted – in good taste, in good fun, in good everything.