DANI PARADA
ABOUT US:
DANI & MATTHEW
Dani had been photographing weddings for almost a decade when she met Matthew, who had been playing around with video and content creation for a few years. We fell in love, our creative worlds collided, and at some point we realized we really liked doing life—and work—together.
Now Matthew does video, Dani does photo. Somewhere along the way, work and life kind of became the same thing—in the best way.
We work together, travel together, make things together, and and spend a probably unreasonable amount of time together. We really love what we do and the people we get to do it for.
Life is good. God is good. And getting to create together is a pretty sweet deal.
Photos your grandma would be proud of.
Our collective mission
Made for now.
Better with time.
Our mission is pretty simple: make wedding photos and films that feel like you now, and still feel like you 30 years from now. We love trends, a little creative direction, and making something magazine-worthy—but never at the expense of what’s actually happening.
We want your wedding to feel more like flipping through your grandparents’ old album: genuine, a little imperfect, full of life, and impossible to recreate. Because the best parts were never planned.
My love for photography probably started on the floor of a closet, flipping through family albums and old photos stuffed into shoeboxes.
I loved how ordinary moments somehow became more important with time.
That’s always been the point—making something worth holding onto.
No modeling experience required.
Good news:
We create photos to feel real. What happens when no one’s performing for the camera, the way you actually look at each other when no one’s asking you to. That’s the good stuff.
Our photography lives somewhere between documentary and editorial—capturing things as they happen, while knowing when to step in and make a really good photo.
We’ll direct when it helps and back off when it doesn’t. You’re not expected to show up knowing how to pose—that part is on us.
The goal is photos that feel effortless, look incredible, and still feel completely like you.
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What We Bring To
the party
Outside of work, we’re avid travelers, good-food enthusiasts, chronic extroverts, and always down for a slightly too-deep existential conversation.
We love a good dance floor—Matthew has somehow earned the reputation of being the better dancer, which Dani refuses to formally acknowledge. We’re usually doing something active, but we’re equally committed to doing absolutely nothing on a beach or disappearing into a really good movie.
Our house is run almost entirely by our cat and dog, and above everything else, we love Jesus. Life is full, a little chaotic,
and very good.
