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I put out a search for a great, and affordable, photographer while back here.  

There are some fabulous, amazing photogs out there in Chicago!  After a long search, I decided to go with Ian Villaceran.  He is just starting to rebuild his portfolio after a couple of years away attending to his first born.  Here'a link to his previous website: <span style="font-family: tahoma, verdana; font-size: 13px;">(http://ianvillaceran.bigfolioblog.com/month/may08).  

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Ian was an absolute sweetheart.  My FH is a bit camera shy and he totally put him at ease and let us just have fun.  (BTW, did I mention he was also incredibly AFFORDABLE?!!)  One unique feature is that he exclusively shoots with film.  YES, films!  No digital snaps.  As much as I was glad to support the film art, I was a bit weary about this in the beginning - we've gotten so used to the convenience and immediate gratification for digital photos, I was a bit worried...what if the film gets over-exposed? What if it's out of focus?  But we forget, for many, many, many years, film successfully captured special moments and it really isn't going to go away.

In the end, I was very happy with the results. (Ian somehow even uploaded the proofs within 24 hrs!)  I also appreciated that he had this conviction for film art and that he was fully aware of the fact that he couldn't mess up.  :)  

We have the pictures of lifetime that we will treasure forever and I just want to give GREAT KUDOS, TWO THUMBS UP to Ian.  

Here're some teaser pics.  For my hubby's privacy, I purposely chose the ones where you can't really see his face, but if you want to see more and know more about Ian, PM me.  ;)

Had a bit of problems with the pic; but here's at least one that works!

Thanks!

MsPeanutButter - Gold heels! A couple of detail pics:

Ian reminded me the night before that flowers would be nice to have.  We made a quick stop at Dominick's and I put the flowers together with yellow ribbon. Not bad, huh? ;)

BTW, I also have to give a shout out to Josh from Obviouschild Productions, whose work I've gotten to know during my search for a photographer. He was by far the most enthusiastic and visionary photographer I encountered. I will be watching out for his future work!