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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.

Meet C & K

Two of the sweetest kids I have ever met.Â Miss K played the role of shy girl for all of 20 seconds but I saw underneath the cool, quiet exterior to her inner diva:

as for C….well, he never played shy boy but that’s only cuz I babbled on about video games and I think that video games are the key to a 7 year old’s heart:

Needless to say I think this brother-sister combo is a pretty awesome duo….

Thanks to their parents for bringing them out from Arlington Heights to hang out at the studio for a few hours this afternoon.Â I’m so glad the weather cooperated!

xoxo, Mare

p.s. I was given the link for this nicely written article on having children’s portraits professionally done from Real Simple Magazine’s blog.Â Please check it out….and if you have not done so yet please feel free to check out the Profeesional Child Photographer website for more consumer FAQ type information.Â 🙂

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Whitney - April 27, 2008 - 10:52 pm

Looks like another fun day!!
Angela - April 27, 2008 - 11:31 pm

So beautiful Mare, my favorite is the very first one! Stunning children!
Joyce - April 28, 2008 - 6:50 am

Gorgeous images as always!
kathy wolfe - April 28, 2008 - 7:08 am

I adore that last one… makes me want to be sitting there finding out what was so funny!!! Its just perfect. beautiful children.
Susan Braswell - April 28, 2008 - 8:14 am

These are sweet but {wow} that 3rd one makes my heart sing and I don’t even know these children. That is something I’d want to see huge on my wall now, 10 and even 20 years from now.

Beautiful stuff…
PamN - April 28, 2008 - 9:05 am

oh my gosh, these are so beautiful and timeless – those kids look like pro models (they aren’t, are they?)
Meggan - April 28, 2008 - 9:16 am

These are stunning children! You created beautiful portraits of them!
Carrie Steffe - April 28, 2008 - 11:01 am

oh wow…these are goregeous children and you captured them beautifully!
Kendell - April 28, 2008 - 12:41 pm

Simply beautiful. And yes, that image with both of them is timeless and priceless- I love it.
marie - April 28, 2008 - 2:57 pm

what an awesome session
Julie - April 29, 2008 - 3:05 pm

I just love these images. especially the sibling portrait…makes me want to laugh along with them
Ruthi David - April 29, 2008 - 9:55 pm

Beautiful!! That is the sweetest sibling portrait – it is so REAL!
JUne - April 30, 2008 - 1:33 am

These are fabulous. What I wouldn’t give for a sibling shot of my own like that.:)
Mary Beth - April 30, 2008 - 10:16 am

Beautiful and fun as always! That first one is just *dreamy*. Their mom is going to love every. single. one.

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