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Detachable Wedding Sleeves: Pros and Cons You Should Know Before Buying Your Wedding Dress There’s something about a wedding dress that can transform throughout the day that just feels… effortless. Intentional. A little bit magical, honestly. Lately, more and more of my brides have been drawn to detachable wedding sleeves, and I completely understand why. […]
Snowbird Wedding Venue: Utah’s Ultimate Mountain Wedding Venue There is a specific moment that happens at a Snowbird wedding that I have never experienced at any other venue in Utah, and that I think about every time I pull up the canyon road and watch the mountains grow above the windshield. It is the moment […]
The Natural History Museum of Utah: Salt Lake City’s Most Architecturally Extraordinary Wedding Venue at the Natural History Museum of Utah There is a moment when you walk into the Canyon at the Natural History Museum of Utah — that soaring, sixty-foot-high central atrium at the heart of the Rio Tinto Center — where something […]
Red Butte Garden: Salt Lake City’s Most Beautiful Wedding Venue There are venues that provide a backdrop, and then there are venues that are the destination themselves — places where guests could wander for hours and still find something new to look at, where the setting is so rich and so layered that the wedding […]
An Elegant & Modern Summer French Wedding in the Heart of Champagne, France There are weddings that are beautiful, and there are weddings that change the way you understand what a wedding can be. This one was the latter. I traveled to the Champagne region of France last summer to photograph a real French wedding […]
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 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 […]
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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Every wedding tells a story. My job is to find the most beautiful way to tell yours. Through the candid moments that happen when no one is looking to the details you spent months choosing and the in-between frames that end up meaning the most. Art and emotion, together in every image.
BEHIND THE LENS
ABOUT Courtney
Photography found me before I found it. I grew up watching my grandfather frame a shot, learning without realizing I was learning. When my youngest was born in 2009, I picked up a camera to capture my own kids — and somewhere between the first roll and the hundredth wedding, it became the thing I couldn't imagine not doing.
What keeps me going after 17 years is the same thing that started it all: a genuine love for people and an obsession with preserving the moments that matter. I still travel the world every year to learn from the best photographers working today. Not because I have to. Because I can't imagine stopping.
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