CT Ryan Photography » Weddings http://ctryan.com/blog Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:42:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 An update and some great news! http://ctryan.com/blog/2012/03/01/an-update-and-some-great-news/ http://ctryan.com/blog/2012/03/01/an-update-and-some-great-news/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:53:39 +0000 Tamrah http://ctryan.com/blog/?p=1656 Hello all!

It’s been a while since we’ve posted but we are back to it and excited to share some new posts soon. What’s to come, you ask?

Well, to start, life with three boys is busy! We wish we would’ve been able to blog and share photos from every session we photographed in the last several months, but since we wear many hats (our most important being our parent hat) we made the decision to limit our blog posts through these months to mainly weddings. This was a tough decision, but freed up a great amount of time that we’ve been able to devote to our busy kiddos. We have absolutely cherished that time. With that said, we will soon be posting large-scale posts with some of our most favorite and not-yet-shared-with-you-all photos from these past months. This will include baby, maternity, senior, engagement, and family photos… we are excited to share!

We will also be sharing a blog post with some of the photos and experiences from Cory’s mission trip to Puerto Vallarta. It was life changing, to say the least.

Thirdly, we are very much looking forward to updating our main website with new photos and portfolios! We’ve photographed so many awesome people since the last time we updated, so this is fun for us. Stay tuned!

One more thing — we have some exciting news! We were notified last month by TheKnot.com that we are a “Best of Weddings 2012″ winner.  What does this mean, you ask? Well, first of all, we get to proudly display this pretty thing on our website/blog:

Also, because we don’t advertise with The Knot, we weren’t initially sure what this award meant, but after some clarification we found out that 24 photographers out of 810 wedding photographers in the state of Minnesota were chosen based on reviews given by clients. So, we want to give a big shout out to our amazing clients! Thanks for making it such an honor to do what we do. We truly love it and think each and every one of you is AWESOME.

Much love,

Tamrah and Cory

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Jennie and Brian, we were so honored to be part of your day! You are a fantastic couple!

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Congratulations, Chris and Melissa! We are so happy for you!

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Congrats, Natalie and Chris! Your wedding was lovely!:)

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Sarah and Andy, thanks for the opportunity to be part of your day! We had so much fun!

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Congrats, Sarah and James! Cheers!

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Stacy and Shawn’s ceremony and reception were at the Graves 601 in Minneapolis. It was a wedding full of lots of humor and great music and we were so happy to be there!

Congrats Stacy and Shawn! You guys are awesome! :)

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Their ceremony was at Presbyterian Church of the Way in Shoreview, MN. After the ceremony we went to Bethel University in St. Paul for some photos, and the reception was at Shoreview Community Center.

It was amazing to be your wedding photographers, Sam and Amanda! We are so happy for you!

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Part of what made the day so special were all of the family and friends that traveled long distances to attend this wedding. Oh, and I’m not going to lie… listening to English accents throughout the day was more than awesome. ;)

Such a great day and fantastic couple! We’re truly honored we were able to be part of it!

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