Joe & Krislyn
Malibu Canyon still green, and a film cut short on purpose. Sound on.
Short, on purpose.
Joe and Krislyn were married at Calamigos Ranch, up in Malibu Canyon, and their film runs a little over three minutes. That is deliberate. Not every couple wants the long version, and a tight cut travels further, because people actually watch it all the way through and then send it to someone else.
The frame that carries it is the two of them out on the open ground with the canyon still green behind them, which only happens for a few weeks of the year up there. Most of the year those hills are gold. Theirs came at the right time.
Which site.
The thing to know about Calamigos is that it is not one venue. The ranch spreads across Malibu Canyon with several separate wedding sites on it, each with its own trees, its own light and its own walk between ceremony and dinner, so "we are getting married at Calamigos" does not tell a filmmaker much on its own. Ask which site you have and tell us, because the plan changes with the answer. What holds across all of them is the canopy: mature oaks and redwoods break the midday sun into patches, which is kind to faces but unforgiving if you meter for it badly, and the open hillsides only come good in the last stretch of the afternoon. More on the property in our notes on filming at Calamigos Ranch.
