Thank you, Janine and Kevin, for letting me in on your biggest day. You two are incredible and I wish you all the luck in the world in your adventures together!
Freshly engaged and looking for a photographer to capture your most magical day? I do that kind of stuff. See pricing for said magic here, or get in touch about your wedding here.
Laura and Cordell were married in the Salt Lake City temple and hosted a fahhbulous reception party at This is the Place Heritage Park. There were shirtless men, balloons in cars, bubbles, and some mean dancing.
Congratulations, you two! You are wonderful beyond reason together and I feel lucky to have photographed such a great love.
Venue: This is the Place Heritage Park
Flowers: Flower Afternoon
Hair and Makeup: Celise Artistry
Super in love and about to marry your most favorite person? I take pretty pictures of that kind of thing. See pricing for such prettiness here.
I understand their need to smother our little babe with love. I do it er’yday.
Interested in getting your littles in front of my camera? See the details here.
Their love is so fresh: fun, goofy, and all at once deep. We headed up Provo canyon to the mountains to catch all the facets of their relationship outside the chaos of the wedding day.
Sarah Jane and Gil, thank you for letting me document your incredible love. It was a pleasure, to say the least.
Am I obsessed with Sarah Jane’s hair? Um. How could you not be?
The First Look. OH. my gosh i lovethesewithmywholeheart.
Crazy in love and in need of crazy gorgeous photos to match?
Brooke Schultz is a Utah wedding photographer who photographs creative, handmade weddings and couples who can’t get enough of each other. If you are one such a couple planning one such a wedding, contact Brooke about photographing your big day. She’d really love to.
Wanna see more bridal sessions? You got it, love.
So happy to have it featured on Wedding Chicks today–see the feature here!
I collaborated with the very talented Amber Dickson to pull this inspiration together and my oh my. This girl has style for miles, so srsly. Follow her and love her and let her do your wedding flowers or maybe just decorate your whole life because she is fabulous.
We wanted to play with some different ideas, including a moodier, darker feel for the shoot and the window light the cafe venue provided. I adore small, intimate wedding gatherings, and we decided to use the restaurant to create a homemade feel with some fun DIY elements.
They also waded through the stress and worry and sadness of some close family members being in a very serious car accident shortly before their wedding with really stunning grace. They pulled their wedding together with the help of fabulous family and friends and the most laid-back attitudes–Candis and Andy knew what their wedding was about. It was a beautiful, intimate, lovely celebration of two of the most down-to-earth wonderful people.
Congratulations, Candis and Andy. Thank you for your kindness and for letting me into your lives and your biggest day. You two are absolutely perfect together, and I wish you a million years of happiness in your new family.
Andy surprised Candis with a dance to “Endless Love”–before they met each other, they didn’t believe all that cheesy romantic stuff could actually be real. Whenever either of them started saying something sentimental, the other would start singing “Endless Love” as a joke–but they danced to it because every sappy thing they’d made fun of turned out to be, like, for REAL. One of my favorite first dances I’ve ever photographed.
Venue: Bride and Groom’s home in American Fork, Utah
Paper Goods: Heirloom Paperie
Dress Design: Bride
Eliza and Sam are two of the kindest people to ever live. They’re head over heels for each other, but it’s an all-inclusive love that makes you feel like you’re invited. I love those kinds of loves.
The night of our session was WINDY. Not breezy-windy. Blow-you-clean-over windy. I’m always up for wind, and luckily Eliza and Sam were too–wow I love these two. When you trust your photographer, you get into this wonderful synergy–and that’s where the magic happens.
First Look. You should do one.
View all the photos from Eliza + Sam’s bridal session and order prints here.
About to marry and in need of gorgeous photos to last the rest of your life? I do those.
Brooke Schultz is a Utah wedding photographer whose work has been featured in Martha Stewart Weddings, Style Me Pretty, Ruffled blog, and a variety of other national and local publications, but she’s not stuffy like that and is equally proud of her accomplishments in baby snuggling, hot fudge making, and ocean splashing.
Contact her about making beautiful wedding photos togetha.
But now, get ready for the most flowy, swooshy dress on the prettiest girl in the coolest field thing.
Special thanks to Bri for floofing and re-floofing the dress in all its splendor.
About to marry and in need of gorgeous portraits of you in your gorgeous dress?
Yeah. I do those.
Brooke Schultz is a Utah-based (soon to be Salt Lake-based! F’reals!) wedding photographer who loves splashing in the ocean, rose gold, and her teeny tiny (but almost 2-month-old! whhaa?) baby girl. She’s especially crazy about summer weddings and you can chat with her about yours here.
We ventured into the wild trees and dirt to make some photos together to show off this beautiful love the two of them share. I feel so honored when couples open up and share their relationship with me–what a treat. Annnnd it doesn’t hurt when ridiculous good looks are involved. Like whoa. (Everyone driving by thought so too. Sorry for the all the honks, you two.)
View all the photos from their bridal session and order professional prints shipped right to your door here.
In love and in need of gorgeous wedding photos? I just might be your lady. Details and pricing for such wedding photos can be found here. Let’s talk about your big day!
The other day I realized something that shocked me:
Whoa.
Social media has been worshiped as the platform to “get yourself out there” and grow your business. So we end up wasting our precious time on facebook calling it ‘networking’ and becoming progressively more horrible at interacting with real alive people. I don’t doubt that social media drastically improves lots of businesses. It’s how a lot of my clients find out about me, to be sure–so I’m not pretending it’s completely worthless and evil or that I’m holier than all of it.
But I refuse to play icky games to get more followers, ‘likes’, or generally anything that tries to make me look popular. No trading likes, Monday Mingling, or pointless contests for me.
So does this put me behind in the biz-growing goodness of social media?
Truthfully: probably.
Lots of people end up seeing your work when you’re willing to do those things. But I just can’t feel good about being even a little scammy or shady or desperate just to get a few more eyes on my photographs–it’s inconsistent with who I am as an artist.
It hurts my photographer heart to know just how many people are falling into this trap and doing exactly that–preachin’ keeping it real while doing scummy things for more popularity. It seems like we used to be genuinely interested in other people, like as real friends, you know? But now we’re all swirling in the social media vortex, and we have to be constantly posting something witty/interesting/breathtaking if we want our business to survive, let alone grow. No wonder we’re tempted to pay for ‘likes’ and draw followers in less-than-upstanding ways.
It takes a lot of strength and courage to be an honest artist–to be true to yourself on all fronts of your business, your creative process, your interactions with people (via the internet or in real life).
I want to hear about how you’re keepin’ it real–truly, authentically, without scams or pretending. Tell me in the comments what you’re up to, or I’d love to hear from you via email at brookebee @ gmail.com.
