Hi, I’m Ryan Brenizer. I created The Brenizers to be the studio I would actually want to hire: experienced, unobtrusive, and obsessively focused on the people.
After photographing 900+ weddings, I’ve learned at least one important thing: Genuinely comfortable people take better photos. Especially when the audience is you.
You know your real smile, and you can’t fool yourself. When you look at your photos in twenty years, you won't just see what you looked like; you will remember exactly how you felt in that fraction of a second. I want that feeling to be pure joy, not "that was when the photographer yelled at me to tilt my head."
That is why I operate less like a generic "vendor" and more like a safety net. I want to be the friend who happens to have done this a thousand times. I am paranoid about your day so you don't have to be. I have pinned boutonnieres, managed family crises, and outsmarted hundreds of rainstorms and timelines, all to ensure you stay in the moment.
(And yes, I invented the Brenizer Method. It’s a cool trick, but my real superpower is that I still genuinely love weddings. Because I focus on the people, and the good news is I still love people.)
I am closing in fast on my 1,000th wedding (maybe it will be yours). I have seen it all, which means you get to relax and enjoy it all.