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.

Naperville High School Senior Photographer

I may be a little emotional because this young man is going to be a senior this year…and well…I’ve been photographing him since he was 3 months old. Frankly this is kind of messing with my head.

You’d think that I didn’t have two young adults of my own, one already married and all, but something about seeing one of my Marmalade Kids graduate from “wee one” to about to be a high school senior that is both amazingly awesome and a total mind freak.

Total. Mind. Freak.

Noah you are awesome. I’ve never not had fun photographing you. Your personality is as big as your smile. Your heart is gold. You are a caring and good human being. Your family must be so proud of all that you are. Personally? I cannot wait to see the incredible things you do in this life. I have loved seeing you grow up. I literally got to see your first steps, which was just crazy timing on your parents end and kind of insane all at once.

Both you and Marmalade kind of grew up together. Weird, huh?

Truly you are a gift as is your beautiful mom and the rest of the adults who have helped shape you into this young adult that you are becoming.

Blessings upon blessings. I am truly humbled and honored to have been able to photograph you pre-senior year. Class of 2024…back in 2006 when I first met you I would have never guessed we would be here so quick. Gosh, here we are!

Sneak peeks for this Naperville Central Senior. Thank you Kim, Nala, Noah (Bailey and Stella too, they were good babies!). We never not have fun doing this photography thing and I am grateful to have had the opportunity to photograph you all along.

Much love, luck and fun to you this final year of high school!

Yes yes I played as Naperville High School Senior Photographer during this session but I also played Antioch newborn and toddler photographer, Glenview Child photographer and Naperville family photographer during the Noah era. 🙂 Here’s a quick flashback because I simply cannot help myself 🙂