Breen and Coley were married at 4U Ranch in Peoa, twenty minutes east of Park City, at the end of September 2025. Kaushay Ford and her team at Kaushay & Co. Events planned and designed it, and Rocky Mountain Bride published it the following spring. Before the wedding, the two of them had been to more than thirty countries together. Coley proposed in Greece. The whole day was built around that.
What the day was made of
You could read it in the details before anyone told you. A saxophone at the ceremony. A seating chart laid out as the places that marked their relationship. Hand-painted watercolour letters waiting at each seat when guests sat down for a Mediterranean dinner, a nod to the coast where they got engaged. Bronte’s Florals gave Breen an armful of coral, peach and orange ranunculus tied with a pale yellow ribbon, and her bridesmaids wore whatever they wanted, which meant cream, olive, burnt orange, hot pink and a few prints. Breen wore a sleek open-back halter gown by KYHA Studios with a cape that fell to a train. Against the yellow September grass and the cliff behind the ranch, all of it held together.
I photograph the objects a couple chose on purpose. The paper suite with a watercolour of the ranch house. The gold flatware and the sage runner down the long table. The meadow of florals at the end of the aisle. These are the parts of the day that took months to decide and last about six hours, and they deserve the same attention as the portraits.
Both of them
Breen said something afterwards that I think about a lot: "So many vendors talked directly to the bride, but Chris made a point to talk to both of us and understand what we both wanted individually." That is not a technique. It is just the only honest way to photograph two people. Coley is in these pictures as himself, not as the person standing next to the dress.
Out in the field, with the cliff behind the ranch and the grass already gone to September gold, they stood the way they stand: close, unhurried, not performing for anyone. Down on the lawn the aisle ended in a meadow of the same peach and coral, planted as if it had grown there.
By the end of the night Coley had a cowboy hat on and the two of them ran out through the barn doors under a shower of sparks. The last frame of a wedding should feel like the first one: two specific people, exactly themselves.
With
Venue: 4U Ranch, Peoa, Utah
Planning, design and stationery: Kaushay & Co. Events
Florals: Bronte’s Florals
Film: Curtis Jensen Films
Beauty: Marisa Rose
Catering: Hill’s Kitchen
Bar: Top Shelf Utah
Music: Echo Talent
Rentals and lighting: All Out Event Rental
Linens: BBJ La Tavola, Nuage Designs, Specialty Linens
Save the date: Ann Elizabeth Print Studio
Gown: KYHA Studios, from Unveiled Bridal
Menswear: Suitsupply
Photography: Christopher Cook
As featured in Rocky Mountain Bride
