Cody & Lauren
Backlit by the Gulf sun. Press play, sound on.
The way it felt.
The Gulf Coast sun does something particular in the late afternoon, it comes in low off the water and turns everything to haze and gold. Cody and Lauren stood right in it, and half this film lives in that backlight.
This was a Florida wedding with a California crew: we flew in, found the light, and filmed the day the way we always do, close enough to catch the real moments, far enough that the day stayed theirs. Proof that the approach travels.
On Ca’ d’Zan.
Ca’ d’Zan is the 1920s Venetian Gothic mansion at the heart of The Ringling, a 66-acre bayfront estate in Sarasota. Ceremonies sit on the terrace above Sarasota Bay, where the Venetian arches frame the water and the low sun comes through them warm and even. A short walk away, the Museum of Art Courtyard gives a completely different look: a pink colonnade, bronze statuary, and bougainvillea that read like Italy on film. Rayne is based in Southern California, but we travel for weddings anywhere, Florida included.
