Lake Como Destination Wedding Cinematographer

As a Lake Como wedding videographer, I am grateful to be able to tell touching stories like Simone and Grace’s one, whom after two years of pandemic and two postponed weddings has finally achieved their bigger dream, getting married on Lake Com.

Simone is an Italian guy who, like many others, went to study in the United States. There he met Grace and, like his father says in his speech, immediately fell in love with her. Many years later, here they are husband and wife on the shores of the enchanting Lake Como. Theirs was not just a wedding but a three-day event, as a special occasion to bring and celebrate together with friends and families.

These three days started with an elegant party boat on the lake, with music, dancing and good Italian food. The following day the event continued with a rehearsal party at Villa Geno, in the city of Como, with the arrival of the bride and groom on two Venetian boats.

Colorful flowers, aromatic plants and velvet sofas furnished the villa and the open bar helped create a convivial and relaxed atmosphere. Grace looked stunning in her flower dress.

And finally comes the big day! The bride and groom’s preparations took place at Villa Flori in Cernobbio where you can enjoy a beautiful view of Como and the lake. An exciting first look in the gardens of the villa and then a ride on the Riva boat, for a classic, yet classy photo shooting on Lake Como, together with Bottega53.

The wedding ceremony and the reception were set in Villa Pizzo, probably one of my favorite venues on Lake Como, for the beautiful ballroom and terrace on the lake for the ceremony, with the ancient staircase from where bridesmaids, groomsmen , bride and groom go down the aisle.

Finally, a trio of tenors popped-up during the cutting of the cake, surprising the bride and groom and their guests. Once again Gemma from My Lake Como Wedding has done a wonderful job of planning and design.

Once again Lake Como has been able to excite and surprise with its beauty and charm. And I believe that once again Dolcevita Wedding Cinema had the opportunity to tell a genuine love story with a wedding video. As usual Italy, my beloved motherland, offers breathtaking and romantic sceneries for a destination wedding cinematographer.

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Destination Wedding Cinematographer in Hummingbird Nest Ranch California

Like many others in 2020, Jennifer and James’ wedding has also been postponed for 2 years due to the pandemic. In the meantime they got married with a civil ceremony and a beautiful baby girl was born.

And so, this event was not just a wedding party, but an opportunity to celebrate their love together with friends and families, remember and honor their origins (Bride and Groom‘s families have Korean heritage and James grew up in Hawaii – this explains the “lei” garlands) and also to thank everyone for being close to them in these two years.

The wedding location was in Simi Valley, about an hour’s drive north of the city of Los Angeles. It’s surrounded by burnt sienna rocky hills and cactus plants with strong reminiscent of the sets of many Hollywood old wild west movies. The wedding venue is Hummingbird Nest Ranch, an old Spanish-style racehorse ranch. Truly an out of this world and peaceful place.

The wedding design by the wedding planner Ashley Sun of CCL WEDDINGS is minimal and elegant. For the ceremony place and the dinner tables the main decoration were candles (I would say hundreds of candles!) in glass jars that create a warm, magical and intimate environment. On the Bride and Groom’s table a cascade of magnificent red roses.

For the wedding party there was no lack of food and drink: open bars, ice cream and boba (bubble tea) kiosk, even the IN & OUT truck that provided its famous delicious burgers. What could I say more…Filming a wedding in South California is always a great pleasure. The mild weather, friendly vendors and colleagues, customers and guests always respectful, cheerful and willing to party. What’s better for a destination wedding cinematographer? 🙂 Can’t wait to see you again California!

Photographer of the event: May Iosotaluno

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Destination Wedding Cinematographer in Los Angeles California Hotel Bel Air

After two years of postponement I flew to the City of Angels for the wedding of Isabel and Ben, an extraordinary couple who have helped and supported me through these difficult Covid moments to find a new date. And finally it has arrived!

Isabel and Ben have chosen a historic and glamorous venue, the Hotel Bel-Air, where over the years it has been frequented by Hollywood stars and VIPs and where it has also been the set for several films. The palm trees, the swimming pool (also frequented by Marylin Monroe!), The pink walls of the Hispanic-style buildings make it a place of great charm.

The elegan wedding design, with florals and details in white, crystal and wood, was designed and planned by Jeannie Yong Savage of Details Details while the tables and decors were about The Nameless Production.

Isabel wore a fantastic mermaid bridal dress by designer Ryan Patroso for couple portraits and bridal party, the first look and the ceremony, while for the first dance (or last dance as they call it in the US!) She wore a transparent and glamorous dress by Berta.

For me, as I think for every destination wedding cinematographer on earth, being able to work in luxury venues such as the Bel-Air Hotel, with renowned wedding planners, great wedding professionals such as the Spanish photographers La Dichosa, is always a great pleasure and an honor.

This wedding was also an opportunity to use the new Sony cameras for the first time and record at the amazing quality of 4K 10bit 4: 2: 2 editing the final wedding film with a brand new color grading, brighter and with a beautiful and natural skin tones. I know the technical details are boring but I assure you that when you watch your wedding video at home on a 4K 60 “TV you’ll be blown away! 🙂

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Wedding Videographer in Villa Erba Cernobbio

Lake Como is a unique place. any wedding photographer and wedding videographer dream of having an elegant, luxury wedding in one of the historic villas on the shores of this lake so dear to exclusive tourists and Hollywood’s stars. However, there are few places that can give you that sense of magic like Villa Erba in Cernobbio. This venue was a set of various movies and commercials and a milestone of the Lake Como landscape. And also it has hosted some of the best weddings of all times.

Personally I think it has the most beautiful ballroom in all of Lake Como and I would say of all of the place I had the chance to work in …. but it is only the opinion of a destination wedding videographer in love with this place and its lights and background.

Jaclyn and Jason are a young and beautiful couple from Texas; after have ad their preps in Villa d’Este they chose Villa Erba as the “set” for the most important day of their lives. I can say once again, Gemma of My Lake Como Wedding did an excellent wedding planning job, as did the florists Figli dei Fiori Como and the light & sound guys of Blunotte Events. An event that was like a dream and where for one day I felt like the director of a dolcevita’s movie with handsome guys in black tuxedo and beautiful girls in long dress. Elegant and expensive speedboats on the background of an Italian postcard landscape. This it what means getting married on Lake Como and this wedding video is the result of my Italian passion for art, poetry and beauty.

Every event, every day of my life I use my eyes and my cameras to tell the beauty. A love story, unique and unrepeatable.

WP: My Lake Como Wedding

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Destination wedding videographer in Parice France

There is always a very first time. And this was my very first time in the Ville Lumiere! Paris is known as the city of lovers, the city of artists and bohemians. Surely it is one of the most beautiful cities in the world and one of the most desirable destination wedding; expecially for wedding videographers! I have to admit, it’s nice to work on Lake Como, Venice, Tuscany and the Amalfi Coast, all of which are fantastic destination weddings and I couldn’t be happier living in a place surrounded by so much beauty like Italy, but Paris is the dream and the milestone of every wedding cinematographer. Being able to make a wedding film among the streets of this city was an honor and also a great pleasure, and I can’t thank enough Ava and Andy for giving me this fantastic opportunity.

You can see in this wedding film trailer glimpses of the Trocadero, of the Alexander III Bridge, of the view of Paris from the exclusive top roof of the Four Season Charles V Hotel. I also enjoyed getting around the streets and neighborhoods of Paris scouting and seeking interesting angles for the B-roll I usually use in my intros; I”m sure I’ve never brought home so much footage…guys, at the end of the day the pedometer counted 20km!
A big thank also to my new buddy Darek Smetiana, a great wedding photographer whom I shared two fantastic days with and … many, many kilometers 🙂

PH: Darek Smietana

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I have to be honest, when I received an email from Refinery29 in November 2018, I really had no idea who they were. I know it sounds weird but it is! I’m definetely not a TV fan…Anyway, they were very impressed by the video of the wedding in Phuket of these two guys and found interesting the fact she has Filipino heritage and he has Vietnamese as they point the attention on mixed couple and ethnic weddings, so for this reason they asked me for the footage (and obviously the permit of mine and the couple) with which they wanted to shoot an episode of World Wide Wed right about their story.
Although initially I didn’t know that Refinery29 was a succesfull brand and I am usually a little cautious, I took a couple of emails with the guys (whom promptly replied “how do you not know them, they are so famous?!” Jeez I felt so dumb….) to being able to confirm our availability to Refinery29. Once again this extraordinary couple has been able to amaze me with their willingness and enthusiasm. As I bet they were more excited than me to participate! 🙂
And so ladies and gentlemen, almost five months later, here is the episode of World Wide Wed of Raquel and Tam, one of my favorite weddings and bride&groom ever and another little goal for Dolcevita Wedding Cinema.

Read the original wedding post and watch their Phuket’s film highlight here https://www.dolcevitaweddingcinema.com/2018/05/09/raquel-tamsri-panwaphuket/

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Wedding videographer in Florence Tuscany

This wedding season has been very intense, with magnificent events and classy clients. This wedding may have reached the top because of the bride and groom‘s beauty and for the incredible elegance of the venue, Villa Cora in Florence. In two days we have witnessed 4 changes of dress from the bride and 3 different suits from the groom …. and honestly, as a man who love the style, I was a little jealous of those Peter ones 😉 As previously announced in my journal there was a pre-wedding with traditional Chinese tea ceremony in the afternoon. the tea ceremony is always interesting for a wedding videographer; the beautiful traditional Chinese clothes, the formalities of the ceremony and respect for the family. Also it’s often a moment of big emotions, precious material for an exciting wedding film in perfect Dolcevita Wedding Cinema style! Once again, look at that amazing Chinese wedding dress!

The welcome dinner was held at the B-Roof, the terrace of the Hotel Baglioni where you can enjoy an enchanting view of Florence.
The wedding day, preps, ceremony and reception took place at Villa Cora; Paulina in her breathtaking dress Pronovias looked like a real princess and Peter with an impeccable white tuxedo blazer was perfect for the Tuscan summer. Everything went perfectly just as the bride and groom had dreamed for their wedding day; the magic of a destination wedding in Italy is also this, taking things as they are and enjoy the moments and the atmosphere that a unique place such Florence and Tuscany can give you.

Paulina and Peter are certainly a sophisticated and demanding couple but also very friendly and easygoing people, it was an honor to be chosen directly by them as a wedding videographer for the most important day of their lives, and I do thank them for this. Last but not least, it was a pleasure to work alongside great wedding professionals such the wedding photographer David Bastianoni and the wedding planner Sandra Santoro of gettingmarriedinitaly®, a dream team for a dream wedding.

WP: Gettingmarriedinitaly

PH: David Bastianoni

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I was working on the wedding film editing of Paulina and Peter, a nice, elegant and stilish couple from New York, who will be ready in a few weeks (so stay tuned!). I could not stop looking at those magnificent images of the bride dressed in the traditional Chinese dress for the tea ceremony, during the pre-wedding. The colors of the dress, the warm light that came through the windows, the beauty of Villa Cora in Florence. A magical atmosphere. A dream wedding, elegant in every single detail and these two guys of a breathtaking beauty. I had already filmed several tea ceremonies, but this time the bride chose the traditional Chinese dress, something out of this world definitely! Filming it was a great emotion and through the lens I was seeing images that recall me memories of an ancient and exotic world. Surely one of most beautiful destination wedding that I’ve ever filmed, I’m sure the final result will be astonishing.
Thanks also to all the Italian team that worked in this wedding, from the wedding planner, to the florists and the photographer; every single person has worked together to get the best!

WP: Sandra Santoro – gettingmarriedinitaly®

PH: David Bastianoni

Here are some screenshots from the wedding raw footage!

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