Best Wedding Videographers in Pasadena

While photographs make beautiful mementos of your wedding to be hung on the wall, there’s nothing quite like a film to tell the story of your wedding day. Wedding videography has come a long way in recent years, with not only beautifully crafted highlight reels but also photo montages, blooper videos, and love stories to help bring your wedding to life.

In Pasadena, you’ll find some of the most talented wedding videographers in Southern California, each of whom has found their own niche. In this guide, we’ll introduce a few that have caught our attention for their professionalism and the high-quality of their cinematography.

Walter Pawluk Wedding Videography

With around two decades of experience under his belt, Walter Pawluk is one of the most experienced wedding videographers in Pasadena. He experimented with film making, commercial advertising, and music videos while studying at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design, then began working professionally in both Los Angeles and New York. After working with some of the most talented creative agencies and film crews in the country, he found himself shooting a friend’s wedding in 2001.

He’s since found his wedding videography niche, with a “hands off approach” that balances cinematographic and documentary shooting styles while allowing the day to progress naturally and without his interference. Walter specializes in offering the whole movie to his clients, rather than creating heavily produced trailers that are often a feature of other wedding videographers.

Alex An Studio

Alex An specializes in both wedding photography and videography and has been working in the industry since 2007. Clients rave about his professionalism, with Alex having a knack for finding the perfect lighting and angles throughout the day. He combines “fly on the wall” shooting with some careful direction while always making his clients feel special.

As one bride described it: “We didn't know we could actually be subjects of such intricate artwork envisioned through his eyes.” Aside from wedding photography and videography, Alex also shoots engagement sessions and events, such as birthday parties.

LA Color Films

LA Color Films is a multi-award-winning wedding videography company that’s renowned for its cinematic productions. They’ve been voted "Best Videographer in Los Angeles" and "Best Videographer in the United States" by Wedding Industry Expert and work with clients throughout Los Angeles, Orange County, and the San Diego area.

Using cutting-edge equipment, LA Color Films’ skilled creative will capture all the moments of your wedding day, with high-quality audio to ensure that your ceremony vows and reception speeches are recorded. In addition to wedding films, they also offer trailers, blooper reels, and photomontages, as well as love story videos that can be played during your wedding reception.

Margaret & Cory

Margaret & Cory are a husband-and-wife team who are based in Los Angeles but available to document weddings around the globe. Their short wedding day reels combine candid moments filled with authentic emotions and all the in-between exchanges of wedding portrait sessions.

We particularly love their juxtaposition of the vows over the reactions of the bride and groom, as well as their immediate family members. The couple’s choice of music always adds poignancy to their films, creating a reflective aesthetic that their clients absolutely love.

Cotton Love Studios

The team at Cotton Love Studios says that there’s nothing more awesome than “telling stories through the unique emotions and personalities that our clients have.” Their style can be described as natural and modern, with videos that capture genuine emotions while being creatively executed.

When working with Cotton Love Studios, they really take the time to get to know their couples and what they want to ensure the finished product is unique to them. Not only will they capture the big celebrations on your wedding day but all of those small details and intimate moments that make it so special. Cotton Love Studios is happy to document weddings throughout Los Angeles and Orange County, as well as regularly traveling to San Francisco, the Napa Valley, Santa Barbara, and San Diego.

Ridge Weddings

Based in Southern California, Ridge Weddings is one of the area’s leading wedding videography companies and has garnered a reputation for its creative vision and cinematic style. They are passionate about documenting the love and joy of their clients’ wedding stories and create keepsakes that will allow them to reminisce for many years to come.

Ridge Weddings only uses cinema-quality cameras and lenses, as well as professional audio recorders for the best results possible. Rather than using a formula to create their wedding videos, they pride themselves on taking the time to get to know their couples to ensure the film is truly unique. When they’re not shooting in the Greater Los Angeles region, Ridge Weddings’ team is traveling as far afield as Las Vegas, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

Miguel Garcia Studios

Specializing in weddings in Southern California, Palm Springs, and Mexico, Miguel is a fine art wedding cinematographer who receives rave reviews from his clients. His work has been featured on numerous wedding industry websites, including Style Me Pretty, Martha Stewart Weddings, and Green Wedding Shoes.

Miguel says that he’s incredibly grateful to film weddings as his career, explaining: “Life is precious and I think it’s a gift that I get to do something I love.” This is something that comes through in the way he approaches each shoot and the respect he shows to his clients, with an ability to capture the essence of the location and group of people. When he’s not busy documenting weddings, Miguel is leading the Pasadena Rising Tide Society Tuesdays Together group and helping other creatives to get a leg up in the wedding industry.

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