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welcome to the ae blog.

ae photography is Eric and Ashley Hintzsche.  We are a husband and wife team based in Northern Illinois.  We've been up and running since 2002 and love it more as each year passes.  Our style is fun, expressive and natural.  We have three young kids, a new studio, and each other : ) We are excited to get the new blog going! Browse, follow, stalk, whatever!

recent applause:

shootsac blog post with photo of Ashley shooting Eric's senior session 

chicago RedEye (tribune) feature of Pete and Liz's backyard wedding & Chicago reception

offbeat mama post with featured photo of our little rockstar Finn

rock 'n roll bride feature of Pete + Liz's backyard wedding

smitten the blog feature for Pete + Liz's backyard wedding

wed*share daily feature for Pete + Liz's backyard wedding

smitten the blog feature for Maggie's fashion bridal shots

offbeat bride feature for Zaq + Amber's wedding 

featured display at Cypress House in Rochelle, IL for 9.11.09 open house

photography exhibit up at borders in DeKalb, IL for the month of August

featured on Brides Bliss blog for Zaq + Amber's wedding in 7.09

exclusive featured photographer for Cypress House in Rochelle, IL

 

Category Archives: fashion bridal

“be thankful” and the winner is….

Once again, we really want to thank those of you who entered.  We both loved reading the entries–some of which made me tear up.  We plan to have many more contests, seeing as how much we enjoyed this  one!  The next one will be posted soon!  So those of you who didn’t win (it was...

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Jennifer - That's ok guys! I forgive you for misspelling my name since I won! :) You're entries definitely got me a little teary eyed too!

ae photography - Sorry for spelling your name wrong, Jenn!! I DO know how to spell it, but I can't change it now, because I saved it as a jpg. oops!

Leah - Umm..yours and Eric's paragraphs both made me cry! Congratulations everyone:)

featured on smitten

Horray!  Maggie’s bridal shots were featured on Smitten the blog.  Something to brighten my day  Go there and check them out.
I am deathly ill today. I’v been under the weather for awhile, but it’s awful right now.  Hopefully I will recover soon.  *Please don’t let it be the swine* That said, I’m going...

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ae photography - Thank you for featuring our photos! I stalk your blog daily, so it's great to see some of our work up there : ) I am actually feeling better today!

Smitten - Thank you for the kind words. Maggie's bridals are gorgeous! Hope you are feeling better.

ae photography - update: it's 5:44 and I still haven't went to bed. Too much to do. All nighter. Now that sounds much more like me than heading to bed at 9pm. What was I thinking!?

maggie | bridal | illinois wedding photographer

We haven’t edited much of Jake and Maggie’s wedding yet, but I wanted to share some of the bridal shots we just posted to their gallery a few days ago.  We just loved the style of their wedding.  I absolutely LOVE her dress and headpiece–totally something I would pick for my wedding.  We will do...

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Rebecca - love the pleats!

ae | photography - These photos were taken at the lovely historical Dillon Home in Sterling, Illinois.

jenn | illinois fashion bridal photographer

Here we have our favorite images from our session with the gorgeous Jenn.  We  want to thank the Tinker Swiss Cottage Museum for graciously letting us shoot a large part of our session there!  It worked out great.  We shot there, around Briggs Mansion, CRU(wine + cheese shop–thank you, as well!) and in the streets and...

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jenn | sneak peek | illinois fashion bridal photographer

Here is a quick sneak peek of the fashion bridal session we shot for Jenn awhile back.  There are so many great ones–she was very easy to photograph : )  We will have our favorites form the session posted on Friday.  We already photographed Jenn + Bill’s wedding in July.  Photos to come sometime in...

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