Contact Marmalade Photography

We produce high quality image art for all of our clients. If you're interested in working with us we are available for sessions on location throughout Chicagoland. We also offer Marmalade Location sessions in our home area in the SW Suburbs of Chicago.

We are often booked several weeks in advance especially during our peak seasons (spring, summer and fall). Session fees start at $195 for weekday sessions @ our Marmalade Locations or $295 for weekday sessions on location in Metro Chicagoland. Weekend sessions are available for an add'l $60.

Prints are a separate purchase and start at $45. Collection pricing starts at $795. Please call us: 815.603.8450 with any questions. We look forward to hearing from you!

About Marianne

Since 2005 I have been in the business of creating tangible memories but the truth is that I have been a photographer "forever". I was about 6 when I first held my brother Matt's (heavy) Canon AE-1's viewfinder up to my face, I the heft of the camera heavy in my hands & the strap scratching the back of my neck. I remember seeing the world through that viewfinder rectangle for the very first time.

For a number of years I worked as an RN in the critical care setting and at some point I had a realization that while I loved the connection nursing allowed me to have with others, I wanted more to contribute beauty and love to their existence. Some of my favorite patient families would bring photos in for their loved ones - visual reminders that the patient lying in bed is a human being, struggling at the moment but in reality this person is a loving parent, a doting grandparent, a wonderful wife or husband, someone's best friend. Those photos personalized my experience with my patients. It is because of these experiences that I continue to grasp to UNDERSTAND the meaning of this life. My belief is that the meaning lies in the connection between us all, relationships, after all, are the only thing we leave on this earth with any real meaning.

In 2005 when I finally took the leap and started Marmalade Photography it was based upon a single vision: fun, beautiful and quality photos for Chicago area families and children that speak to who they are as a character in the plot of their lives and who they are in the connectedness of this life.

My ten years photographing people of varying ages is of benefit to you: I offer a full service photography experience and have the expertise to create art you will love for your home. I love to help clients design wall galleries, provide custom created beautiful albums and art pieces. I have even been commissioned to create images as large as 10 feet in length. High touch, high quality, there is no other way to do it.

While I do live, breathe & eat photography obviously I am not just Marmalade Photography. I am also a wife…a mom to Maddie & Lauren who inspire me every day in so many ways…I am a historian and a friend…a gardener (who can't keep indoor plants but I have a green thumb if it grows outside)…funny…fun loving…serious…in fact you & I may have a lot in common…I would love to get to know you through that rectangle & tell your families' story for you.

Graduation photos in Chicagoland

Are you looking to create some beautiful and personality filled graduation photos in Chicagoland? You’re in for a treat!! A bit of a preview for my oldest’s 8th grade graduation photos.

My oldest (pictured as a baby below) is graduating junior high May of 2014! I cannot believe how time has flown by so quickly, I am so glad that we have a great mix of photos from when she was a baby (when I was an amateur with a camera), a large variety of professional photos (taken through the years way before I became a professional photographer) and then once I started Marmalade Photography: a great mix of my own snapshots and professional quality portraits as well as great images as taken by some fellow professional photographers like my talented photographer friends Lauri Baker and Pam Biasotti .

But this post isn’t about the past (except to showcase a then and now transformation). It’s about the first part of my girls’ 8th grade photo session. She wanted to do some images in the snow and we captured these on (hopefully) one of the last snow days! We were attacked by the trees tossing down snow as the temperature increased but it was well worth it to capture the many moods of my gorgeous teenager!!

Thanks for stopping in to view these. First I will include a quick snapshot from when she was about 8 months old. Look at that gorgeous face!! (excuse the snapshot quality!)

From late 2000: SUCH A CUTIE PIE!! They grow up too too quick.

Chicago Sibling Photographer

A sweet image of my two girls, sisters that have a (mostly) love relationship with one another

Here are her beautiful 8th grade portraits in the snow, as always her gallery is filled with a fun mix of personality shots as well as what you expect from a typical portrait session:

eighth-grade-graduation-photography