jimi allen photography

I love gallery shows…the beautiful prints, the family time, the music, the flowers…the food…

This coming Saturday is our 10th wedding gallery show. It’s one thing to see wedding pictures online or as proofs, but it is quite another to sit with family and friends while moments are projected on a large screen set to music. More than one bride has teared up at the sight!

In a few hours the studio is transformed with large prints, fresh flowers and a decadent cheese tray. Though we sell prints as these shows, that is not the primary focus.

Have you ever loved something so much that you spent a lifetime crafting a skill to preserve it as a memory? We have.

Art isn’t something you only see at the Art Institute in Chicago, art communicates. Art is the realization and remembrance of who we are. Art validates our experiences. At a wedding gallery show, memories take physical form in a photograph and relationships are honored.

By the end of the evening, we have continued relationships and built new ones. We also go to sleep full of pepper jack cheese and mimosas humming “Fly Away” by Frank Sinatra.

- amy