Kate Miller Photography

It’s been such a long time since I’ve done a blog post! It’s our busiest time of the year and I don’t think I have a free Saturday until October, which is awesome because I love to stay busy, but crazy because I have to edit my little heart out to show you what I’ve been up to! To be fair, the last 2 weeks have been vacation time for Joel and I, going to Wisconsin Dells and then to California, so I’ve had a nice break to get ready for the rest of the summer, and I’m totally ready to go. :)

I did a fun Glen Ellyn shoot with our next couple, Kevin and Gretchen, and let me tell you… I am so excited for their wedding later this year! I met with Gretchen early on to talk wedding details, and her style is so similar to mine. We both frequent the same blogs and online shops, and just listening to her talk about all the fun details of her big day… I can’t wait to shoot it!

I’m usually glued to this computer screen at all hours of the day, answering emails, planning my schedule, and editing away at all the shoots I’ve done lately. I’ve taken a little bit of a break this week to tackle a project I always thought I’d leave to a professional: reupholstering our retro 60′s office chair. I have no experience in reupholstery or working with fabric like that… in fact, I don’t even know how to use a sewing machine, I hand-sew everything… so why on this green earth would I even attempt something like this? That’s what I was asking myself halfway through sawing a block of foam with a kitchen knife earlier this afternoon. But thankfully, this evening, I totally finished it, and it looks AWESOME! Way better than I even imagined, and somehow it made me feel all the more creatively inspired to plunge back into editing and come up with some awesome new things at KMP. I don’t know about you guys, but every once and awhile I need to do a creative project to inspire all other creative areas in my life! :)

Our next couple (Ashley and Alex) are total troupers. I met them at Starbucks to start our engagement session, and it was raining like crazy! We decided to buy drinks and wait out the storm for awhile, and luckily about 40 minutes later, the sun came out and we were ready to go! They were so patient and totally ready for anything, and that’s why I’m so excited to shoot their wedding in the coming months!

Told ya we’d see more of these guys!

Getting to the hotel in downtown Chicago where the girls were getting ready was a hilarious story on its own… one that involved a memorial day parade, closed streets, getting dropped off in traffic in the middle lane of Dearborn Ave, a man in a truck yelling directions at me, and being propositioned by a homeless man. Like I said, totally another story, but the madness was worth it for this beautiful wedding with Aldin and Melanie. We loved every minute of it, thanks you two! :)