Chicago Children's and Family Photographer of Choice - General Information:

Chicago Children's photographer Marmalade Photography ®; 's award winning photography is only paralleled by our repuation as a quality provider of photography services for Chicago baby, family and maternity clients. Our reputation as one of the finest children's photographers in the Chicago area guarantees that your images will be timeless, inspirational and worthy of hanging in your home as art. Your photography will be forever cherished as an heirloom. Suburban Chicago based children's and baby photographer Marianne Drenthe of Marmalade Photography ®; has rightfully earned a reputation for excellence in photography.

Our customer service is unparalleled and we're proud to create beautiful custom portraits for families and children throughout the region. Our Chicago area professional photography services bring fun, unique images that highlight relationships and childhood moments of discovery. We pride ourselves on our large base of repeat clients and welcome you to experience what Marmalade Photography is all about.. We have gained a following for the more discriminating clientele in the Chicagoland area because of our focus on quality imagine and customer service.

Suburban Chicago Family Photographer

Exclusively by appointment only.

Marmalade Photography ® 's custom brand of beautiful, soulful art photography services are available for on location at your home or at a favorite location of your own in the City or suburbs. A very popular option for many of our clients are our own handpicked locations around our beautiful studio. We are located about 50 minutes outside of Chicago in the southwest suburbs. Our studio is located off of I-55 and Route 66 in WIlmington, Illinois. We also acknowledge that great photography can be done almost anywhere and are always up for the fun and everchanging environment of on location work and frequently travel to the North Shore, Chicago Lakefront and out of state for portrait sessions! We utilize natural light as well as studio light. We photograph outdoors, indoors, nature settings, urban settings and everything in between.

Professional Children's Photography done right

We are proud to be lifelong residents of the area and are thrilled to bring our unique vision to families in the greater Chicago area. Marianne is an expert at seeing light and is known for her unique vision and soulful artistic storytelling. Marmalade Photography is for those clients who crave beautiful quality photography

We photograph maternity, newborns, infants, babies, toddlers, children and families

We specialize in these types of photography to offer our discerning clientele the very best in photo art.

Marmalade Photography strives to make each photograph a piece of art. Marianne consistently finds joys in the challenges of making each piece unique and each experience memorable. To us photography and the experience is less about a piece of paper to remember today by and more about a custom piece of artwork to remember a stage of your lives by. We are about the memories surrounding the images as much as the images themselves.

We are a Chicago and Suburban Chicagoland custom photograpy studio We offer photo art services for discerning clients. We create artistic lifestyle photographs and contemporary portraiture. We photograph both in client's homes as on location portrait sessions, children's portraits, fine art portraiture, family images, children's photography, limited children's event photography, Day In the Life type Sessions at both our locations and on location where our clients choose to have their session. We have exclusive to us Marmalade Locations - these sessions are a fun, back-to-nature way of achieving beautiful portraits. All our session types: senior portraits, infant and newborn baby portraits, baby pictures, pregnancy/maternity portraits, infant photography can be had at either our locations or yours. Marmalade Photography ® is exceptional at offering up a taste of our unique brand of fine art portraiture and artistry during our sessions which are commonly labeled by our clients as a fun, one of a kind unique experience not had with any other Chicagoland Photographer.

Our Services are by appointment only Marmalade Photography ® can be reached at 815.603.8450.

As often is the case, Marianne is often booked about two weeks to several months in advance. Please keep this in mind when booking a date for your unique, fun filled photography experience with Marmalade Photography. We offer up our services in beautiful nature filled or unique environments! It is true that images can be taken "anywhere", Marmalade Photography ® prefers to captures subjects having fun, exploring, being in beautiful natural or urban surrounds, bonding as a family in truly one-of-a-kind settings. The end result are images that will forever warm your heart and grace your walls for years to come.

Marmalade Photography ® does travel outside of Chicagoland

Typically we provide our customized photography services throughout the Chicago area and cater to the North Shore area, including but not limited to Winnetka, WIlmette, Highland Park, Evanston, Glenview, Lake Forest, Highwood, Skokie. We often travel to Chicago for clients located in Lincoln Park, Rogers Park, Wicker Park, Andersonville, Lakeview, Lakewood, Ravenswood, Grant Park, Gold Coast, Logan Square. Often our on location sessions take us to destinations throughout the rest of suburban Chicago, we often find ourselves in and around Orland hills, Orland Park, Palos Heights, Palos Hills, Bannockburn, Palos Park, Park Forest, River Forest, River Grove, Rolling Meadows, Schaumburg, Westchester, Western Springs, Wheeling, Winnetka, Wilmette, Batavia, Carpentersville, Elgin, Geneva, North Aurora,Aurora, Bartlett, Bensenville, Bloomingdale, Bolingbrook, Burr Ridge, Carol Stream, Clarendon Hills, Darien, Downers Grove, Elmhurst, Glencoe, Glen Ellyn, Hinsdale, Itasca, Lemont, Lisle, Lombard, Naperville, Arlington Heights, Brookfield, Chicago including Wicker Park, Rogers Park, Lakeview, North Shore, Gold Coast, University Village, Des Plaines, Evanston, Glencoe, Glenview, Glenwood, Hoffman Estates, Barrington, Iverness, Hyde Park, Inverness, La Grange, La Grange Highlands, La Grange Park, West Chicago, Wheaton, Willowbrook, Winfield, Woodridge, Bolingbrook, Channahon, Crest Hill, Elwood, Frankfort, Homer Glen, Joliet, Lockport, Manhattan, Mokena, Naperville, New Lenox, Plainfield, Romeoville, Shorewood, Wilmington, Saint Charles, South Elgin, Peotone, Wilmington, Kankakee, Bradley, Burbounnais, DuPage County, Will County, Cook CountyLincoln Park, Morton Grove, Niles, Northtown, Oak Forest, Oak Park, Oak Brook, Oakbrook Terrace, Warrenville, Wayne.

For unique and beautiful portrait art taken by a leading authority of children's and family photography call us today to book!! CALL today 815.603.8450 or

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