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I'm a luxury photographer serving brides & mothers who desire a stress-free & joyful photography experience that allows them to enjoy each special season... and to receive jaw-dropping, joy-filled photos they'll pass down for generations to come.

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Welcome to The Caitlin & Luke Blog! Feel free to browse the blog's to view educational posts, lovely weddings, sweet families, and personal posts dating all the way back to 2011. Xoxo! 

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Have you noticed how much families appreciate those multi-generational photos that capture everyone together! Getting three generations, twenty-plus cheerful faces, and not one person blinking in a single frame can feel like a big accomplishment in photography! Having photographed many extended families over several years, we’ve put together a dependable approach that consistently creates wonderful […]

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Your baby’s first weeks truly are a whirlwind of gentle sighs, tiny yawns, and cozy snuggles! These special times deserve to be held onto with the thoughtfulness and care that only professional newborn photography Peoria IL can provide. Families everywhere understand the irreplaceable value of preserving these first memories through thoughtful photography, with the global […]

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Hey friends and Happy Tuesday!! Around here, you guys know we just love Tuesday’s, because Tuesday’s are the day we get to share the past weekend’s WEDDING with you all here on the blog! Yay! And this Tuesday is no exception to that!! 🙂 Today, we get to share a stunner of a wedding that […]

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Hey friends and Happy Tuesday! It’s another Tuesday after a wedding, and you know what that means… wedding blog post day! Woohoo! We are so incredibly excited to be sharing our sweet friends’ Meagan and Carter’s stunner of a wedding with you all today. Get ready for some gorgeousness, because holy smokes, there’s a lot […]

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Hi friends, and happy Thursday! We hope you all are having a wonderful week!! Today, Luke and I are so darn excited because we get to share a super gorgeous engagement session with you! Our incredible team members & business’ other husband and wife team, Hayley & Hank, photographed this GORGEOUS engagement session for our […]

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Hey friends and happy Tuesday! We’re incredibly excited to be blogging our very first wedding of 2019 with you all today! How on EARTH is it already the end of April?! It feels like we just stared our off season, and here we are, with our first wedding of the year under our belts. So, […]

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Hey friends and happy Friday! We hope you guys have all had the best week so far! We’ve been gearing up for the start of our 2019 wedding season on Saturday, and we’re so darn excited! But we’re also excited because today is FINALLY the day that we get to share our styled shoot images […]

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Hey friends, and happy Wednesday! We are so excited to be sharing Becca and Kalen’s adorable spring engagement session with you all here on the blog today! Luke and I had the joy of meeting up with these two just a few days ago for their University of Illinois Arboretum engagement photos, and our time […]

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