Aaron Dieppa

This beautiful wedding was held at South Shores Church in Monarch Beach, and the Surf and Sand Resort in Laguna Beach.  Both locations were absolutely gorgeous and were perfect for taking lots of wedding photos.

Kelly and Dustin’s ceremony at South Shores Church was accompanied by live violin and cello music and the cocktail hour and reception that followed were hosted outdoors at the Surf and Sand Resort with a view of the ocean for their guests to enjoy.  You could hear the crashing of the waves below and even smell the ocean from where we were at.

I can’t say enough about how much I enjoyed working with Kelly and Dustin.  It was such a pleasure getting to know them and their families.  If you remember their engagement session earlier this year in Laguna Beach, it’s obvious that the beauty of the ocean is important to them.  And you can see how their wedding was influenced by it with their choice of colors, flowers and location at the Surf and Sand Resort.   And to top it all off they spent a week on the island of Kauai for their honeymoon.

Everything came together wonderfully on their wedding day thanks to an amazing wedding team:

Wedding Planner: Chelsey Dane - Bride-Associates

DJ: Elevated Pulse Pro

Flowers: Jennifer Cole Florals

Cake: Susie Cakes

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

Gabriel and Carlie’s brand new client lounge. It’s super chic, and ultra hip check it out!!

Gabriel Ryan Photographers

In this episode of The Big Picture, I talk about how being a perfectionist can effect my productivity and how I need to lighten up and not be so over critical of myself, my photography and these videos.

Sometimes I get really overwhelmed with all things on my to do list, and it seems like I can never get it all done. I make lists but they don’t seem to help. I think it’s because I try to do too many things on the list at once rather than prioritizing. Hmmm maybe I should add that to my list of New Years resolutions! Prioritize!