Matt & Leslie
A cathedral downtown, and the city standing up behind it. Sound on.
Old and new.
Matt and Leslie were married at Vibiana, the former cathedral in downtown Los Angeles, and their portraits were made outside with the towers of the financial district rising directly behind them.
Downtown is the reason to marry at Vibiana rather than somewhere prettier. You get a 19th century interior and a 21st century skyline within the same fifty meters.
Notes on the place.
Vibiana works because of the contrast, and the contrast only shows if you shoot both halves of it. Inside is a former cathedral: white, vaulted, and quiet. Step out and you are on a downtown street with high-rises stacked behind you. Most films made here stay inside and miss half the story. We plan a short walk out for portraits specifically to get the skyline in, and downtown light in the late afternoon bounces off glass towers in a way that is genuinely flattering rather than harsh.
