Jonathan & Alexa
Beverly Hills in the rain, and none of it mattered. Press play, sound on.
The way it felt.
It rained on Jonathan and Alexa, properly, the kind of Beverly Hills downpour that turns every stone path into a mirror. They walked out into it under a clear umbrella and did not seem to mind at all, and that decision gave the film its whole character.
The Maybourne handled the rest: a covered arrival on Canon Drive, warm rooms that hold their own light, and a hotel built to absorb a hundred and fifty people without ever feeling crowded. We filmed close and let the weather be part of it rather than something to hide.
On The Maybourne.
The Maybourne Beverly Hills sits on Canon Drive, a block off Rodeo, in the building that spent a decade as the Montage before the Maybourne group took it over. It is a hotel that films warm: Mediterranean stone outside, and inside a five-thousand-square-foot ballroom with opera balconies and chandeliers that give a reception real height. The Terrace looks out over Beverly Canon Gardens, where white parasols and a cascading fountain do a convincing impression of a European piazza, and the rooftop opens up to the Hollywood Hills. Because so much of the property is covered or interior, it is one of the few Los Angeles venues where weather genuinely does not dictate the day.
