A Rayne Wedding Film

Montage Laguna Beach wedding film
Nic & Sophie

Nic and Sophie at Montage Laguna Beach, down to the water. Sound on.

Nic and Sophie walking hand in hand across dark wet rocks at the tide line below Montage Laguna Beach, surf breaking behind them and the bluff rising on the left
Nic & Sophie Montage Laguna Beach · Laguna Beach
LocationMontage Laguna Beach
SettingLaguna Beach, California
The FilmCinematic wedding film
01The Day

Down to the rocks.

Nic and Sophie were married at Montage Laguna Beach. The frame this film is held on has the two of them hand in hand on dark wet rock at the tide line, surf breaking behind them, the bluff rising on the left. Getting to the water at all here means the ramp down from the resort, and standing on that rock means a tide low enough to allow it.

The film runs six minutes and six seconds. Watch it with sound.

02Filming at Montage Laguna Beach

Notes on the place.

Two things govern a shoot here and neither is on the floor plan. The first is the ramp. Everything below the lawns has to be carried down and carried back, so we work light at the water: one body, one lens, nothing on legs. The second is the horizon. The lawns face open ocean, so the sun sits behind anyone facing the water, and in the last hour of the day the margin between a face and a silhouette is narrow. You choose which one you are making before you roll, not in the grade afterwards.

03At Montage Laguna Beach
The rocky point and surf from above, a beach and houses along the bluff, people on the sand.
The ceremony on the lawn, a petal-strewn aisle running to a white floral arch, the couple and the officiant at the altar, guests seated in wooden chairs, palms and the ocean beyond.
Nic and Sophie laughing face to face, the ocean and rocks behind them.
Nic and Sophie beneath an arch of white blooms on the lawn, an agave to the left, her train spread across the grass and the ocean behind.
Nic kissing Sophie at the water's edge, a headland and a few figures on the sand behind them.
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