I can remember like it was yesterday, although it was really the second week of July 2018, I was newly engaged and as I began my search to find an engagement photo photographer I was literally petrified!! I thought to myself what will I do, I’m... not photogenic, I barely know how to smile in a picture and have it speak to my warm personality. What if the pictures turn out ugly, what if one of the best days of my life that I wanted treasured in photos was ruined by shoddy cheesy pictures? What if they are too scared to embrace my vision for getting photos at a waterfall as my fiancé had proposed at a waterfall?! I was so scared! That is until I got the courage to post a message on FB seeking recommendations for a photographer and someone tagged Jermaine and recommended him. When I tell you from the moment I talked to him on the telephone, with every passing moment he started to ease my anxieties, he was very patient, answered all of my questions, reassured me that he could bring out my natural photogenic abilities and scream my personality through my photos, but must importantly make my fiancé comfortable in the same regard (he initially hated pictures lol). Jermaine assured me that he could tell our love story via pics and he proved every bit of what he said plus more!!! He not only found us the most beautiful waterfall in the Chicagoland area in a beautiful natural park that honed so many aspects of things my fiancé and I both loved we both nearly cried! Upon meeting Jermaine he was so personable and by the middle of our photo shoot he had me and my fiancé both laughing, smiling, full of confidence and feeling like he was our long lost BFF. It was amazing! From there our engagement photo sneak peek took me to tears of happiness, left my fiancé with the biggest smile on his face and we received so many compliments on how beautiful our photos were that we lost count! We knew we just had to have Jermaine be our photographer for our wedding!!! Fast forward to our wedding 7/5/19, was the weather sunny and perfect for outdoor ceremony? Yes it was!!! Right along with it being 90 degrees with high humidity levels!!! Omg!! You would think that would discourage our photographer to want to make all of our photos inside during the reception and cheesy to beat the heat, not ours! Jermaine jumped right in as the professional expert he is, leveraged and planned timing so perfectly so that we weren’t in the heat and we were still able to get beautiful pictures during the day time and at sunset. As a bride this brought me so much peace! One more thing...Having a big wedding time flies at a fast pace and it’s truly hard to take everything in...the next day as we relaxed for a day before heading off to our honeymoon we began to chat about the things that we thought we might have missed or just wondered had it happened; was it there, did you see it/them? That is until we received our wedding photos back and saw the our beautiful wedding pictures literally painted as a instant replay of our day. Only this time slowed down to allow us to take a deep breath and take it all in. He captured things that we really missed the day of our wedding and here I was in tears of happiness all over again. Words could never describe our thanks! His work is exceptional, beautiful and downright fantastic!!! He was phenomenal to work with holistically and is an EXPERT at his craft!!! I recommend him times a trillion and you would be crazy to book with anybody else!!!