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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Bellissimo Gardens: Utah’s Most Enchanting Outdoor Venue When I think about the wedding venues in Utah that stop people in their tracks — the ones where guests pull out their phones the moment they arrive, where couples who booked from photos show up on the wedding day and find the reality is even better than […]
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Something Beautiful
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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