Tony & Katherine
A bluff a hundred and fifty feet above the water, and the whole coast in view. Sound on.
High side.
Tony and Katherine were married at The Ritz-Carlton in Dana Point, on the bluff where the lawn ends and the ground drops away to the beach.
Their film runs a little over seven minutes. The coastline does most of the work: from up there you can see south along the water for miles, which is not something most oceanfront venues can actually offer.
Notes on the place.
What separates this property from the other oceanfront resorts in Orange County is elevation. The ceremony lawn sits a hundred and fifty feet above the sand, so the horizon line falls well below the couple rather than cutting through them, and you get depth: beach, surf, headland, open water, all stacked. The tradeoff is exposure to wind coming straight up the bluff face, which has to be solved at the microphone rather than in the edit.
