Rebecca Aranda

California native excels at capturing real-life wedding moments

I’m a documentary wedding photographer based in Los Angeles, shooting weddings and elopements throughout California. I focus on real, candid moments; I’ll be a fly-on-the-wall and let you be present in the full joy of your celebration. When I was little, I wanted to be an actor, a director, or a writer. As an adult, I worked in publishing, theatre, and the film industry, and I realized that they all had one common thread: storytelling. I love human stories… and I would love you to see your own story, in photographs. My artistic approach to weddings: Color, light, vitality, joy. When I’m photographing, I’m always seeking vivid colors, real emotions, gestures, and body language that tell the story between people. I focus intently on the people in front of me and their unique stories. I approach every wedding like Les Blank, a documentarian that I admire: wide-open listening, looking for who these people really are. And photographing things not just how they look, but how they feel! I aim to photograph real life, how it really looks in front of us — which is different than how it looks in a mirror, or through a cameraphone lens.