Congratulations on your recent engagement and welcome to your wedding planning phase. Planning a wedding can be quite a task. So many wedding décor ideas and wedding location options. Do you hire a wedding planner or do you plan a wedding on your own? If you prefer DIY wedding planning, we first suggest that you create a wedding checklist of things that are important for you on your wedding day and a of course, a wedding budget.

Now is time to find your most beautiful Chicago wedding ceremony location and Chicago wedding reception venue. Are you doing to have a downtown Chicago city wedding or do you prefer a suburb wedding venue instead? Outdoor wedding location or indoor wedding? From researching wedding venues online to planning venue on site visits can make finding your perfect wedding venue spot be one of the most time consuming parts of your wedding planning process. Chicago and its suburbs has no shortage of beautiful wedding venues at which you can tie the knot and celebrate your love. Each wedding reception or event venue offers its own unique setting for your wedding day.

Your wedding venue options are truly endless. Are you looking for a wedding Banquet Hall or do you prefer a Hotel or Resort wedding venue instead? A country club wedding venue or a winery wedding venue? How about getting married at Chicago Botanic Garden wedding? Have you considered a farm wedding location or barn wedding venue for a more rustic wedding style? A Chicago boat wedding on the Chicago river with Chicago skyline as a background and the wedding fireworks illuminating over Lake Michigan? A Chicago wedding warehouse venue? A backyard micro wedding? Library wedding venue? Adler Planetarium Wedding or Shedd Aquarium wedding as a reception venue? Maybe a brewery wedding venue or distillery wedding location? Or perhaps a historical local wedding mansion venue reception location? So many wedding venue choices…

The best wedding planning advice most professional wedding photographers, wedding DJs, wedding planners, wedding florists & wedding décor, hair and makeup artists and other wedding industry leaders would suggest – start wedding planning in advance.

At Wedding Studio Pro, our award winning Chicago wedding photographers and wedding videographers as experienced wedding professionals artists with hundreds of weddings under their belts are often asked by newly engaged couples, which one is our most favorite venue? We are honored when our wedding couples seek our wedding planning advice and we are always more than willing to assist in any way we can. Having photographed hundreds of Chicagoland weddings, we have experienced firsthand the beauty and elegance that each wedding venue portrays and we would love to recommend you the wedding location venue that best suits your wedding vision and needs.