We booked Cattura after careful research and comparison of photographers and videographers within Chicago. Ultimately we received a great recommendation from a friend that had her as their wedding photographer. We are so happy we went this route! Wedding planning amidst a pandemic wasn't easy & at times felt a bit less celebratory than I envisioned. Christine was great with meeting us virtually, making us feel comfortable, & answering our questions leading up to the big day. For instance, I even leaned on her experience in choosing my bridesmaids dresses... she was helpful all around. Both of us (bride/groom... but mostly groom) have very lively & sometimes crazy, friends/families. Christine & crew did a great job wrangling the herd & getting everything accomplished; all in a very nice manner. Patient, fun & lively were the words I'd describe the crew as, the day of our wedding. Day of went smoothly, including our photos getting ready/around the city/and of course at the wedding ceremony and reception itself. Christine & her team were flexible in terms of staggered start times, as well as having folks at various locations. The week of the wedding we decided to extend our 2nd shooter an additional hour & the team was really easy to work with on that. Kate was our 2nd shooter and she was fabulous as well. With the additional hour added, she was the 'lead photographer' for that portion & she did great. Our videographer was Antonin & he did a good job capturing footage as well. You can tell that Christine deeply cares about her business & puts her heart into her work. Just look at her blog & you will see how she takes note of important memories & aspects of clients relationships- and mimics that in her work. Not only is she a great photographer, she is a really great person. We saw her at a friend's wedding after we booked her, but prior to meeting her in person, and she quickly recognized us/took a photo of us there. Her memory and care stuck out to us & made the experience more special. read more

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We really loved working with Cattura for our engagement session and our wedding day. Christine and her team made us feel so relaxed and they captured us and our guests well. We had no worries or stress regarding photography during the wedding planning process. She kept us informed the entire time and we fully trusted her vision. The images from our wedding are even more beautiful and touching than I could've imagined. The candid photos of us and our guests are exceptional. I cannot wait to share them with our guests. The images are vivid and you can really sense the activity of the day in them. Cattura captured our memories so well and we are grateful. The team definitely captured our joy! read more

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Cattura Weddings was everything we could have wanted in a wedding photographer. We had 2 criteria when looking for our wedding vendors: people that we felt like we connected with and people who were project managers at heart. Christine went above and beyond in both respects!! She was very organized, thoughtful and her pricing was very fair. She was also so easy to get along with and I felt we clicked from the moment we met. While she wasn't able to make the wedding day herself, her associate photographer Hannah brought just as much energy and talent to our wedding day. My husband and I are both a bit camera shy and she was able to come up with creative shots and make us feel so comfortable. We even scored a feature in a Chicago wedding magazine because of Cattura Weddings. I plan to use them for other important moments in our life too! 10/10 would recommend. read more

Christine is amazing!! She came recommended by our venue and we are SO GLAD to have found her. Christine has an amazing, calm energy -- when we had a little rain the morning of our wedding and had to make some adjustments to portrait locations, she handled it like a pro and made me so much calmer. We had never done professional photos and felt awkward in front of the camera, but Christine was able to calm our nerves and get us comfortable shooting. By the end, she felt like a friend. She turned around our sneak peeks in less than a week and the pictures make me cry with happiness! She did a great job capturing who we are as people. We did not have a highly detailed shot list but there were a few meaningful shots I wanted captured and she went out of her way to make sure they were included in our sneak peeks. We are so happy we chose Christine! read more

I loved working with Christine and her team for our wedding! she made everyone feel comfortable and beautiful. she was easy to reach and the planning process was actually quite fun! She put up with my massive family and made the day smooth and easy. we will definitely work with her again if we need professional photos! read more

We got married in October and got our pictures back shortly thereafter. We were definitely impressed with both the quantity and the quality! Christine was super flexible (we got married during the height of covid) and was able to accomodate our microwedding. On the day of our wedding, we had Stacey as our photograph and Nancy her assistant. They were both awesome. Super calm and willing to help with anything to make the photos go as smoothly as possible. I loved that Stacey really took the time to make us feel comfortable and I feel like she really captured our personalities. We didn't want the cheesey prom-style pics and she did a fantastic job of making eveyrhting very classy and elegant. Would definitely hire Cattura for a friend's wedding! read more

I highly recommend working with Cattura Weddings! For how high quality the photographs were (and how many were taken) she was so reasonably priced. Every conversation leading up to the wedding was a pleasure - Christine's knowledge really put us at ease. We ended up doing engagement photos and are so glad we did - Christine taught us how to feel comfortable in front of the camera (which we weren't before) and really prepared us for the shoot and our actual wedding day. After getting those beautiful photographs back, we knew we were in great hands! Christine wasn't able to photograph us on our wedding day (shout out Jenn, who was amazing!!), but the way she edited our photographs you would never be able to tell. She so beautifully captures light (and makes darker spaces feel so romantic) - this is really what drew us to her from the start, and what we ended up seeing in our own photos. We got so many compliments on how beautiful the pictures turned out from friends and family - we wouldn't hesitate to hire her again. read more

I cannot recommend Christine at Cattura Weddings highly enough. In the lead-up to the wedding she was delightful to work with - easy going, close listening, and straightforward. We did not have any issues with planning and her prices were quite reasonable. Christine shot engagement photos for us as well as photos the day of the wedding. The engagement photos were amazing, capturing the intimacies of our facial expressions and gazes, and the wedding photos absolutely blew us away. On the day of the wedding, Christine was just so competent and skillful, and effortlessly blended into the wedding, capturing the biggest and littlest moments of the day without interrupting anything and with, we learned when we saw the photos, incredible artistry. She helped make the whole day stress-free so we could focus on each other and our guests, and the digital photos as well as the albums that we ordered are a source of beauty and joy in looking back on that day that we will carry with us for the rest of our lives. If more free-flowing, "journalistic" wedding photography with artistic freedom is your style, book Christine. Simple as that. read more

Christine and her team were such an absolute pleasure to work with throughout our whole engagement photo and wedding process! We found Cattura Weddings through our original vendor, Salvatore's, in Chicago. After seeing Christine's attention to detail in her work, talking with her and eventually surviving a global pandemic together, we knew we made the right choice. Christine was so flexible in traveling, professional and quick to answer emails or calls, but what we didn't know was how amazing she would handle the pandemic that ensued 2 months before our wedding. She was involved in every step and put us at ease as we scurried around trying to make that big day (with all Covid-19 mandates and just 10 total people) still happen. Though all of our plans around our wedding day had changed, the photos and video that we will have forever were absolutely beautiful. We cannot thank Christine and her team enough for how fortunate we were to have them a part in making our day so special. read more