Los Angeles Wedding Photographer – Ian Grant Photography, LLC bio picture

Welcome to Ian Grant Photography!

My name is Ian and I'm a photographer in greater the Los Angeles area. That's my wife Tanya over there too- she's great with clients and has a fantastic fashion sense [we got married at Point Lobos, CA ourselves a few years back]. I specialize in Wedding Photography and LA Headshots but you'll often catch me out shooting landscapes and traveling insane distances to visit National Parks in my spare time.

In my wedding photography I like to combine both, so I guess I'm a landscape-wedding photographer. I love long roadtrips and have been all over the US from Rhode Island to California. I enjoy planning far away trips and going over to Europe to drive around aimlessly for an extended amount of time [especially Iceland!]. Tanya and I run Ian Grant Photography out of our beach spot in the Los Angeles suburb of Playa del Rey, CA. Enjoy your stay, and feel free to introduce yourself!

Wedding dates for 2012/2013 are quickly filling up! If you're interested in having us shoot your wedding or event, please contact us and we'll get right back to you! Feel free to let us know your wedding ideas and how we can help!

Thank you for visiting! -Ian and Tanya

Upper Las Virgenes Open Space Preserve - Michelle and Nick

Outdoor Field Wedding at Upper Las Virgenes Open Space Preserve in Calabasas

Wedding/Reception Venue: Upper Las Virgenes Canyon

Nick and Michelle are some of the coolest people ever. Like, make you laugh really, really hard, cool. Like, make other people feel welcome and loved, cool. Like, know how to throw a rocking party, cool. Nick and Michelle met when Nick helped set up a community garden at the elementary school where Michelle taught, and their family and friends kept mentioning this during their toasts. So add to the list: take care of others cool, nurture the earth cool, have lots of fun cool. Pretty much, cool all around. After getting to know the two of them at their engagement session, this was seriously a wedding we had been looking forward to all year. Not mention coming back to one of our favorite venues on earth just sealed the deal.

Michelle and Nick were married at the Upper Las Virgenes Open Space Preserve in Calabasas, quite the mouthful, but one of the best hidden gems in LA. Joan, the property manager is also a real treat to work with. This beautiful open expanse was a contrast from the streets of Venice where we shot Michelle and Nick's engagement photos, and after their ceremony we were able to sneak into the fields for some golden sunset light. We always like it when people aren't afraid to get a little dirty, and Michelle and Nick jumped into the grasses for some of our favorite photos of the day.

Michelle and Nick really made the event theirs. The centerpieces, in a nod to Nick's profession, were wooden boxes filled with moss, lemons, flowers, and photographs from their engagement session. I'm not going to lie, I think it's so much fun when couples use their engagement photos in creative ways - we love engagement sessions and we're glad when people love them, too! Nick proposed to Michelle using a photo booth, so it seemed only appropriate to incorporate a photo booth into their reception. It's not a secret to anyone who visits our house that we take a photo of ourselves at every photo booth wedding and have now practically filled our fridge with years' worth of goofiness. Thank you Michelle and Nick for such a great time, what a fun couple.