Aaron Dieppa

Ok I’m gonna come clean…before I got married I was a little biased when it came to the discussion of photography versus videography.  And at first I didn’t even want to hire a videographer for my own wedding.  I thought, “Why do we need a videographer.  We’re just going to end up with a video that we’ll watch once and then forget about.  It’s not like a photo album that will be out on display on our coffee table.”  To me video was such an intangible media when compared to printed photos and albums.  But now that my wedding has passed I can whole-heartedly proclaim that video played an integral part of capturing the memories of our wedding day.  EVERYONE should hire a videographer.  The Motion Boutique did an amazing job with our video.  I’ve watched it SO many times now and every time I get all choked up. It isn’t about photography vs videography or which is the superior art-form.  It’s about creating more than one artistic representation of your wedding so that you can remember it in different ways, through the eyes of different people.  I will always love photography.  It is my chosen form of artistic expression and my passion.  However, now I see that video offers something uniquely beautiful and different than photography and together they compliment each other.

Video by: The Motion Boutique

Photos by: Gabriel Ryan Photographers

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I’m getting married to my wonderful, beautiful, intelligent, artistic, kind, caring and nurturing fiance Barbara this weekend!!! I’m actually giddy right now! I have a billion butterflies in my stomach and just thinking about it makes me want to shout out with excitement at the top of my lungs, “woooooooooooohoooooooooooooo!!!!”

Since Barbara and I met in Spain (Espana - pronounced with a lisp;)) we wanted to take some of the culture of Spain and fuse it with our wedding. So we chose Casa Romantica in San Clemente because of its Mediterranean architecture and because it is on a cliff overlooking the ocean. And instead of having a traditional sit-down dinner following the ceremony, we decided to make it a more modern “loungy” type of experience with tray-passed tapas and sangria. One of Barbara’s passions is flamenco dancing which she has been doing for years. Recently she started getting private lessons from Yolanda Arroyo, a famous dancer from Barcelona Spain. So we asked Yolanda and her husband Paco to perform at our wedding and they said yes!! Yolanda will be dancing to Paco’s acoustic guitar for a 20 minute performance as entertainment for our guests. Our hope is that we’ve incorporated enough Spanish influence to our wedding that people will get a glimpse into the beauty of the place where Barbara and I met 3 years ago.

And then we’re off to Europe!! Our honeymoon will begin in Portugal at a boutique Art Deco hotel in the historic center of Lisbon. There we will let the stresses of our lives and wedding planning fade into the past as we savor our newly married status and soak up the Portuguese culture. I can’t wait! Five days later we’ll hop on a short flight to Barcelona, Spain where we have reservations at a luxury hotel located on Las Ramblas which is in the heart of Barcelona. After several days there we will take a train to Valencia where we will spend the remainder of our honeymoon. Ahhhh…so romantic!

My fiancee, Barbara is not only super beautiful, inteligent and fun, she’s also a really talented flamenco dancer!! 

Last week I set up our in-home studio to do a photoshoot of her dancing in her new flamenco dress and it was so much fun!

She has been doing Flamenco dancing for years now, and this last year had the honor of taking private lessons from Yolanda Arroyo.  Yolanda is a world famous Flamenco dancer from Barcelona, Spain.  Her and her husband Paco now live in Glendale and perform regularly.  Paco plays the guitar while she dances.

So this past weekend was Barbara’s first on-stage performance under Yolanda’s teaching.  She performed at a theater in Santa Monica to Paco’s guitar and Yolanda’s singing and she did such an amazing job.  I am so proud of her and wanted to share it with you all.

Oh and Barb and I are super excited because Yolanda and Paco will be performing at our wedding!!  Cool huh!?!

I’ll eventually post photos and video of her actual performance.  But for now here are the photos I took of her at our in-home studio.

Check out this movie it looks pretty cool. It’s hard to tell if it is really a documentary or if it is a movie made to look like a documentary. Anyhow it looks romantic and I can’t wait to see it with Barbara.

By the way, I found this trailer on Jen Berry’s blog. She’s a photographer, and she’s cool. Go see her blog.