Timeless Wedding Stories

Michael Ryan
Documentary Wedding Photographer based in St George, UT, Serving Salt Lake City, Las Vegas and Internationally
Remember high school? Those geeky kids that ran around with a camera and took out of focus photos for your yearbook of football games, choir performances and jazz band..... Yep that was me.Then I discovered fashion photography, back in the film days, it was so much fun to create beautiful, edgy images. To this day I still love to shoot fashion and editorial images.Fast forward a few years and I became a husband and a father (7 in total now) and that is when it hit me that the most important things in life were the moments and the memories that those moments make. In 2003 I shot my first wedding and as the Brits would say it was kinda "rubbish", but I fell in love with documenting weddings. Telling the story of the beginnings of a new family while those that have been together for 25, 50 or 65 years or more gather to celebrate with the new couple. Hundreds of weddings later I still love it. I love capturing the moments that will be forever treasured. The hairstyles may have changed, the dresses don't look like your mom's, the cars we drive are different and the homes we raise our families in have changed as well. Some things though are the same. The moments, the emotion of a father giving a daughter away, the first kiss of a new couple, the friends and family that come together to celebrate this moment in your life. The moments in our lives will be temporary, but the memories from those moments will be forever and I would love to capture those moments and tell the story that is you.My style of photography is documentary story telling with a splash of editorial thrown in. We would love it if you would say hello and tell us about your wedding dreams. Available for destination weddings anywhere in the world.
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Videography

Billy + Kirsten Getting Ready Behind The Scenes

A short behind the scenes video of Billy and Kirsten getting ready to begin their life together. Their beautiful ceremony was 08/25/23 in Downtown Salt Lake City at the Gallivan Center.

Reviews

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WOW - we can not believe how amazing the images from our day turned out! I have never liked having my picture taken, it makes me nervous. But the images from both our engagement session and our wedding were just "Freakin Amazing!" You made me feel so comfortable getting my picture taken and you captured so many things on our wedding day that I never saw you take pictures of. The pictures from our wedding day turned out so much more incredible than I could have ever imagened!
Billy and Kirsten
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I've always struggled to see beauty in myself. And even though I still have my insecurities... Being a mom is the one area of my life where I feel the most "at home" I honestly can't express enough how much I am in absolute awe of these photos - especially seeing the way Ru looks at me. These are moments I truly will always cherish
Erica B.
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