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Wedding photography in Peoria is very conservative in comparison to the bigger cities like Chicago, New York or Los Angeles. Not saying this is good or bad, just different. People in Central Illinois do tend to be more even keeled and grounded compared to most of the populace. I've lived a bit on the East Coast and I can relate to life here vs. life in the East Coast. I would even go out on a limb and say that the value system of people in small towns in the midwest like Peoria, Bloomington, Springfield and the rest of central Illinois is better than people from bigger cities. Most small towns in the US are this way though, not just the Central Illinois area. My hypothesis for this is - this is just my opinion - people here have more time to spend with their family. A wedding photographer in Peoria or Bloomington would be working with the families of both the bride and the groom, not just the bride and groom. Every wedding that I photograph, I end up forming good friendships not only with the couple, but also with some of their family members. Bloomington and Peoria wedding photographers actually do very well in the senior pictures and family portrait market also. There is a wedding photographer in Washington who is very renowned. As far as the high school senior pictures in Peoria goes, there is a very good photographer in Morton who even offers workshops to other photographers from outside this area. I'm not aware of any pure photojournalistic style photographers in the Peoria area, but I'm sure every photographer has some amount of a photojournalistic approach to the weddings he or she covers. Another friend of mine is a wedding photographer in East Peoria. His attention to detail is awesome and his bridal portraits are just so lovely. I have a full studio with multiple backdrops. With every wedding I shoot, I love doing an engagement session. This lets me know the couple very well and helps them as well as me to understand each other. This also helps tremendously at the time of the wedding since we are not strangers to each other. I have not shot any weddings in Pekin yet. There are a lot of wedding photographers in Pekin and Pekin sure has some lovely settings that could be used for wonderful wedding portraits!