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4U Ranch, photographed.

A working ranch on the back side of Park City. Open meadows, an aspen line, and light that holds an hour longer than it does in town.

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Golden hour ceremony at 4U Ranch, Park City
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4U sits above Brown's Canyon, about twenty minutes from Old Town Park City and far enough off the highway that the ceremony stays quiet. The ceremony field opens west, which means the late-summer sun lands on the back of the couple at vows and the front of the guests, a generous trade.

We treat the ranch as four shoots in one day: a getting-ready hour in the cabin lofts, formals on the meadow rise, the ceremony itself, and then a long, slow reception arc as the light shifts off the peaks behind the barn. The ranch's neutral palette (weathered cedar, sun-warmed grass, a single white tent if one's up) takes our editing well, no aggressive saturation needed.

· frames from 4U Ranch ·
Ceremony at 4U Ranch, Park City
First look on the ranch meadow, 4U Ranch
Couple portrait at golden hour, 4U Ranch
Bridal party portrait, 4U Ranch
Reception detail, 4U Ranch
First dance in the barn, 4U Ranch
Late-evening portrait at 4U Ranch
Reception in the barn, 4U Ranch
· elsewhere in utah ·

Other venues we photograph.

  1. Blue Sky Ranch

    A 3,500-acre ranch resort north of Park City, where the meadow is the venue and the architecture stays out of the way.

    Wanship
  2. Thanksgiving Point

    Fifty acres of formal gardens, a glass conservatory, and an indoor ballroom that holds up when the Utah weather doesn't.

    Lehi
  3. Wild Oak

    A walled garden estate in Lindon, twenty minutes south of Salt Lake. The smallest venue we shoot at, and the one that rewards the slowest pace.

    Lindon
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