Aimee Dianne Photography

10/17/2025

Irene + Daniel’s sneak peeks 🤍

Hi! It’s been a minute since I’ve been on here. In case you haven’t heard, I’m moving to Europe! I’m cherishing these final two weeks in LA before I head out, and am looking back on all the weddings I’ve gotten to celebrate here over the last 4 years. Weddings will always be one of my favorite things to document 🤍 Irene + Daniel’s wedding was the perfect way to close out this wedding season. More to come ✨

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05/23/2025

I’ve found that as I get older, the cliche messages you’re told growing up, such as ‘be yourself!’ and ‘confidence is key!’ are actually so helpful and true hahaha.

Recently, I’ve really started leaning into just embracing being fully myself around others. Whether that means admitting I don’t understand a movie reference and asking someone to explain, or playing ‘Raise Your Glass’ by P!nk loud while I sing along in the car with my windows down, or trying out a new fashion trend [we will be wearing head scarves this summer], I’m trying to embrace what it means to by myself right here and now.

I’m shocked how much the fear of embarrassment or judgement held me back. But then I realized, no one actually cares. And not in a bad way! In a really freeing way.

This has nothing to do with wedding photography, but idk I felt like sharing just in case you might be considering blaring P!nk in the car too 😎

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05/10/2025

A guest at the last wedding I shot asked me, ‘do you get emotional at weddings, or have you become kinda desensitized because you’ve done this for so long?’ Honestly, great question. The answer? I cry at every wedding, even the ones I second shoot and don’t even know the couple 😂

I genuinely cannot help it. Idk why, but as I’ve gotten older the threshold of things that make me cry has plummeted. So hearing parents tell their daughter how proud of her she is? Im sobbing. Hearing a best friend retell stories from college days and how the groom helped them through the hardest days of their twenties? Instant tears.

One of my favorite things about wedding day is witnessing the outpouring of love from everyone onto the couple. It’s truly magic.

05/08/2025

I’ll never be over this couple’s session. Jean and LouLou, my beloved neighbors, are it for me. I wanna grow up to be in love like they are - free, filled with music and fun.

We wanted to document an ‘evening at home,’ memorializing this incredible apartment brimming with momentos from all phases of life. Their story displayed on the walls, their love so obviously radiating from how they look at each other. I only wish you could hear the music too 🥹

05/07/2025

Did you know I originally planned on being a physical therapist? Being an artist was far from my mind when I graduated from high school.

Unlike everyone else in my small college-prep school graduating class, I didn’t want to go to college right away. I wanted to see the world before I had any real responsibilities, so I traveled for a year.

It was on that trip while sitting in a treehouse in Cambodia applying to colleges I decided that photography felt like more than just a hobby. So I called my parents, secretly praying they’d talk sense into me and convince me not to pursue an art degree, and much to my shock they fully supported the idea. So I did it - I applied to school as an art major. A few months later I found myself on a hostel rooftop FaceTiming my sister about how scared I was about being a starving artist, and she suggested that with how much I love writing, why not combine the two and pursue photojournalism. Soooo I did, I reapplied to the same universities as a photojournalism major.

Now weddings.. that was a complete, happy accident [see my last post for more of that story]. I knew I didn’t want to work in the newsroom and I had fallen in love with my weekend job so here we are. Though I still love math and science, travel, storytelling and documenting are my favorite things. Getting to do all three to tell my couple’s stories is a dream job I could have never imagined for myself.

The best things in my life have happened out of the blue, and I’m so lucky for it. Just like the trip I took these film images on - completely out of the blue and one of the best trips 🤍

05/01/2025

‘Documentary wedding photography’ has become a buzz word in the industry, and I’m honestly happy about it. I believe documentary photography is a beautiful solution for people who want to remain present on their wedding day, but still walk away with photos that allow them to relive every moment.

A little fun fact about me is I obtained my bachelor degree in Journalism, with photography as my specialty. I’ve always wanted to be a photojournalist, though I never imagined it would land me in the wedding world. That was a happy accident.

During college, I began shooting weddings on weekends. I realized I could apply the skills and techniques I was learning in class to my work, and I slowly began to develop my own way of approaching weddings - in a documentary style.

A few lessons I use every time I pick up my camera:
- look for the smallest ‘person’ in the story- that’s where each story gets its meaning. For weddings, this could be a literal person, like a sister sitting by watching her sister get into her wedding dress, or it could be the ring a groom wears that was his late grandfather’s. I’m always searching for moments and details that enrich the overall ‘story’ of a wedding day

- allow the story to tell itself, go in with researched questions, but don’t try and mold interviews around where you think the story is headed. For weddings this looks like knowing a venue before showing up, choosing locations for portraits, having the timeline down, but also allowing for those things to change. If the couple is feeling overwhelmed, maybe we skip walking to where I wanted to shoot and opt for a small nook where they can snuggle up and relax together instead. Letting the day unfold without my constant direction is so important.

- Don’t be afraid to be the expert. This one is difficult for me at times, but recently I’ve learned how important this is. For me, this looks like approaching my couples when I’m concerned their timeline is too tight, gently pointing out discrepancies in edits on mood boards to better understand what a couple’s expectations are, etc.

So while I use my degree a lil differently, I’m so thankful for my background 🤍

04/20/2025

Fav day w fav ppl. Their vows… not a dry eye in the house [including me behind the camera]. The whole day was sweet. It was special running around Santa Barbara hearing their stories about family, trips, cat rescuing, etc. You ever spend a day in such good company that the three hour drive home you’re buzzing instead of drained? That was me. Brenda + Andrew are good company 🤍

04/15/2025

04/11/2025

One of my favorite ideas a bride of mine has had is gifting each woman at her wedding with a small bouquet on their seats at her Valentine’s Day micro wedding 🥹 It was so simple, thoughtful and made the gals feel really appreciated on a day of celebrating love 🤍 I love looking through these photos and seeing the bouquets as a physical momento of how much my couple loved and appreciated their guests for joining in their celebration.

04/01/2025

Johnny + LouLou - artists, lovers, musicians, and my neighbors and friends. I met Johnny two years ago when I moved into my neighborhood in LA. I heard him and some of his friends playing music from my kitchen window [video from second to last slide], and wandered over to see if they needed someone to play keys in their makeshift band. We all ended up talking for hours and I left with a cool trench coat he painted from his garage sale [video from last slide]. It’s one of my favorites still. I asked to look inside his very eclectic apartment [because I’m nosy] and immediately knew I had to do a photoshoot of him and his partner, LouLou there. It took us over a year to schedule it, but I couldn’t be happier with how the film turned out. We spent 3 hours talking, playing music and documenting this moment in their lives. This is why I pursued photojournalism - connecting with people, learning about and from their experiences never gets old. It’s work that feels important. It’s work that fuels me so deeply. It’s work I’m making time to rediscover and dive into because at my core, this is what I love. People. I have many many more photos I’ll be sharing from their in home shoot, but enjoy these until then 🤍

03/31/2025

Want engagement shoot photos that aren’t stuffy? Try planning a date to your favorite restaurants around town. You get your fav snacks + photos that memorialize a place you frequented 🙂‍↕️ win win.

03/30/2025

Black + white frames from Aimee + Erick’s ceremony 🤍