Melissa Stuckey photography

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Melissa Stuckey photography

Natural light wedding & lifestyle photographer. Lover of the genuine & real moments. Based in Chicago & Greenville, SC but always ready to travel!

08/28/2025

Kate & EJ ✨

07/29/2025

RUTH ✨ it’s not everyday family comes to chi-town just for senior pictures and goodness was it a JOY + HONOR !!! Had the best time boppin around Chicago with Ruth & her mom. Capturing light, color, and having the best time (fighting frizzy hair & rain too but shhhhhhhh)

So grateful for this “job” that gives me a front seat to joy 🙂 Really feelin that latelyyyy ❤️

congrats Ruth !!!

06/27/2025

Hey friends! Popping in with a little BTS of me doing what I love and truly believe in. ✨

The past month has been full — weddings, editing, toddler wrangling (lol), trying to soak up every bit of Chicago summer, and even stepping back from here a bit to be more present with the little everyday moments.

There’s so much intention that goes into capturing wedding days. From planning to pacing, always thinking ahead so you can simply live it & feel it — fully present. (And always ready to scale a wall to get the shot 😉

Just here with you — in the highs, the lows, and the beautiful moments.

Here — stepping into my own moments intentionally, presently, and deeply joyful. So that I can step into your moments with the same heart & care 🤍

05/17/2025

All smiles, all day long. The fullest heart for — MR & MRS HAMMOND !!! ✨

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Photo
Venue .arbory
Wedding planning .weddings
HMU
DJ
Florist
Cake

03/24/2025

Kali & Kyle ✨✨✨ and north ave beach in all its springtime glow!

03/12/2025

SPRING MINI SESSIONS 🌼 April 26th !!! As a mom myself I cherish pictures with my daughter! Especially when she’s somewhat still & smiling :)) But it’s not just the “everyone looking at the camera” ones that tell the best story. It’s the laughing, telling jokes, being silly, playing, and snuggling her tight!

So thats why I want to offer these sessions.

To provide time and space to capture you, your kids, and the love you share.
To capture the joy that is there, despite the hard & messy too.
To invite you to pause, hug your kiddos a little tighter.
To document your story, strength, and beauty in THIS present moment.

✨ These are for — families, moms + kids, just the kids, maternity, couples, anyone !!!

✨ LINK TO BOOK IN CAPTION!

Can not wait to hopefully see you soon & capture these moments for you! Here with you in the highs, lows, and beautiful moments friends. Here - remembering the joy & soaking in every moment ❤️

01/30/2025

How does it feel — To raise a family in the city? To have your third baby? To snuggle up together & embrace the sweet chaos? — Here for the feeling. Here for the moments. Here, capturing every season, stage, and in between giggle with deep joy ✨ I’ll never get over this “job” of cultivating and capturing . No one pinch me. ;)

12/04/2024

hello friends & happy December !!! ✨ ngl started this year pretty burnt out, struggling and not wanting to book anything extra. I took more time to pray, rest, and reconnect with *why* I do this thang. As I made room for the hard & heavy — the lord made room for the joy. It wasn’t anything crazy big, just small, slow, simple nudges & moments to remind my heart & renew my mind.

Moments like — Seeing the light dance during golden hour, falling in love with jazz (or learning I loved it all along?!), sitting on the fronts steps as a family, nurturing myself with a good lunch, striving to be strong physically, loving the laidback/organic studio sessions more than ever, extra dates with my husband, cultivating our family, giving into play & goofiness with Mila, soaking in every ounce of fall, visiting new & old friends, disconnecting from this app & connecting with music & people around me — and the list goes on. He was faithful, he was working, he was still making all things new ✨

And goodness has it been sweeter than I expected! I haven’t arrived and continually learning how important it is. To make room for the hard and then make room to see the smallest, glimmering joys that surround us everyday. Two things can be true and I’m so grateful for that! Hard & joy. Beauty & pain. Sorrow & rejoicing.

Clearrrlyyyy in my feels about this year and all that it held. Grateful for so many amazing moments to have been a witness too! Ready to finish this year intentionally, have a long winter break & all the goodness to come in ‘25 !!!! (Like how is that year real?!?)

Here for you in the highs, lows, and beautiful moments friends. 🥂

Here with you — making room for the hard & joy filled moments ❤️

Here — stepping into your moments intentionally, presently, and deeply joyful ✨

08/12/2024

— the one where Seline & Rob get engaged ✨ ( in the neighborhood they used to live, surrounded by friends and family!!!)

R&S live in NY now and Rob planned every lil detail in order to get Seline to Chicago & in the park 🥹

Rob knelt down, Seline said yes, and then their fam, friends (& the whole park lol) shouted from behind the bush !!! Ahh the best moment ever !!!

What a gift to be a witness to these moments & capture their love 💖

07/30/2024

— moments of joy, excitement, and pure celebration ✨ moments to come back to over & over again. Delivered this iconic day and can’t stop looking at it all !!!

The more I do this, the more I strive to not just capture your moments. But anticipate them too. And it’s in these moments that I find the most beautiful images that feel like they transcend time.

Mr & Mrs Davis forever honored to be apart of your day & your joy ❤️

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