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Villa Cimbrone: A Breathtaking Wedding Venue Above the World

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Villa Cimbrone: A Wedding Venue Above the World Gore Vidal lived in Ravello for thirty-two years. He was an American writer of exceptional literary range and exceptional precision with language, and he had access to virtually every beautiful place on earth. In 1976, asked by an American magazine which was the most beautiful place he […]

Monteverdi Tuscany: The Most Extraordinary Wedding Venue in Italy – Perfect for Intimate Destination Weddings

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Monteverdi Tuscany: The Most Extraordinary Wedding Venue in Italy – Perfect for Intimate Destination Weddings There are places in Italy that are beautiful in the way that all of Tuscany is beautiful — rolling hills, cypress-lined roads, ancient stone, good wine — and then there is Castiglioncello del Trinoro, the medieval hilltop village that contains […]

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Industrial & With a View: The Most Unique Utah Wedding Venues That Are Perfect For A Memorable Wedding

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Industrial & With a View: The Most Unique Utah Wedding Venues Not every couple wants a barn. Not every couple wants a garden. Some couples want the dinosaurs. Some want red rock cliffs and a glass building dissolving into the desert at sunset. Some want a rooftop over Utah Lake with industrial ceilings and folding […]

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Twenty & Creek: Utah’s Most Sophisticated Wedding Venue For a Stunning Celebration

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Twenty & Creek: Utah’s Most Sophisticated Wedding Venue For Any Celebration I have a theory about wedding venues, developed over seventeen years of photographing in them: the ones that last are the ones that were built with genuine conviction rather than with market calculations. The owners who had a clear and specific vision of what […]

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Siempre: Utah’s Most Breathtaking Luxury Wedding Venue in Draper

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Siempre: Utah’s Most Breathtaking Luxury Wedding Venue There are venues that photograph beautifully and venues that feel beautiful, and the rarest category of all is the one where both are equally and completely true. Siempre in Draper is in that rare category. I have photographed at wedding venues across Utah, across the Pacific Northwest, across […]

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River Bridge Event Center Wedding Venue in Utah: A Stunning Venue for Any Celebration

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River Bridge Event Center: Spanish Fork Utah’s Modern Farmhouse Wedding Venue One of the things I have learned after 17 years of photographing weddings across Utah is that the wedding venues that surprise people most are not always the ones with the longest history or the biggest reputation. Sometimes it is the newer wedding venue […]

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Sleepy Ridge Wedding Venue: Utah County’s Country Club Setting at an Accessible Price

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Sleepy Ridge Wedding Venue: Utah County’s Country Club Setting at an Accessible Price There are certain wedding venues where the setting does immediate and convincing work the moment a couple walks through the door. Sleepy Ridge in Orem is one of those venues — and it achieves something that most Utah County wedding venues never […]

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Walker Farms Wedding: A Stunning Barn Wedding Venue in Lindon, Utah

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Walker Farms: Lindon Utah’s Most Beautiful Modern Barn Wedding Venue There are wedding venues that you photograph at once and file away as a nice location. And then there are venues that stop you in your tracks the first time you walk through the doors, where you immediately start mentally planning the portraits you are […]

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