Wedding Photographer at De Luxe Banquet Hall
237 E Olive Ave, Burbank, CA 91502
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De Luxe on Olive Avenue is a colour-changing room with a mirror for a floor, and photographing a reception there is mostly a question of how you handle those two facts.
The room changes colour every few minutes
The De Luxe ballroom runs programmable LED uplighting, and over the course of one reception we watched it move through warm pink for dinner, deep magenta and purple for the entrance, and a cold teal for the open dancing. That is a real photographic problem, not a decorative detail: auto white balance chases it, skin tones swing between sunburn and cyanosis from frame to frame, and a gallery shot that way never looks like one wedding.
We shoot the room to a fixed reference instead and correct in the edit, and we keep a small amount of neutral light on faces so there is something true to grade against. If your gallery from a hall like this has ever come back looking like several different nights stitched together, this is why.
The floor doubles your light — and your colour
The dance floor is polished and highly reflective. The upside is a genuine second light source: the LEDs bounce back up and fill under the chin, which is flattering and means you can work at lower power. The downside is that whatever colour is on the walls arrives under everyone's jaw, and a magenta wash from below is unforgiving. It also means every light source in the room appears twice, so a wide frame of the first dance has to be composed with the reflection as part of the picture rather than as an accident.
Where the frames are
Three things in the room are compositional gifts. The vertical LED light bars that flank the head table make a strong pair of parallel lines — stand a couple between them for the entrance and the frame builds itself. The chandelier over the dance floor sets the axis for the first dance; shoot it wide from the back of the room and you get the couple, the guests and the ceiling in one image, which is the frame most couples end up enlarging. And the draped backdrop behind the sweetheart table, with the marble plinth and the florals in front of it, is the cleanest place in the hall for family and bridal-party groups — better than lining people up against a patterned wall.
The cake usually sits on its own lit plinth. Photograph it early, before the room fills and before the LEDs turn it a colour it is not. The perimeter dining area has patterned carpet and warmer, lower light than the dance floor, which is where the candid frames of guests actually live.
Flow, logistics and Armenian receptions
De Luxe is on the same site as the De Luxe Lounge and Olivia, so on a busy weekend more than one event runs at once; confirm which room you have and where your guests enter. The ballroom takes several hundred guests, which for the Armenian and Persian receptions we cover most often at this venue means a long entrance, an extended dinner service and dancing that starts early and does not stop. We plan coverage around that: the formals and the cake go before dinner, because after the first dance nobody sits down again.
Olive Avenue outside is quiet and lit at night. If the couple wants one frame away from the noise, it is a two-minute walk to the door and back — worth taking between courses rather than trying to leave later in the evening.
Burbank is about twenty-five minutes from our base in West Hills, so we arrive early and there is no travel charge.
Photographs from De Luxe Banquet Hall
Photographs from Mariet & Joe's reception at De Luxe Banquet Hall, Burbank — ConneryFilm. Every frame on this page was made at this venue by us, except where the caption says otherwise.
Photographing your wedding at De Luxe Banquet Hall
ConneryFilm covers weddings across Los Angeles with one coordinated team for both photography and cinematography — seventeen years, and ceremonies in English, Persian, Armenian and Spanish. If you are marrying at De Luxe Banquet Hall, tell us your date and your venue timeline and we will tell you exactly how we would cover it.
Check your date or call or text (818) 749-7039.
Common questions
What is the lighting like at De Luxe Banquet Hall?
The ballroom uses programmable LED uplighting that changes colour through the night — warm pink at dinner, magenta and purple for the entrance, cold teal for dancing. We shoot to a fixed white balance reference and correct in the edit rather than letting the camera chase the LEDs, which is what keeps skin tones consistent across the gallery.
Is the dance floor a problem to photograph?
It is highly reflective, which cuts both ways. It bounces light back up and fills faces nicely, but it also throws the wall colour under everyone's chin and duplicates every light source in the room. We compose wide frames with the reflection deliberately rather than trying to hide it.
Where are the best places for group photos at De Luxe?
The draped backdrop behind the sweetheart table, with the marble plinth and florals in front of it, is the cleanest background in the hall. The vertical LED light bars flanking the head table make a strong frame for the couple's entrance, and the chandelier over the dance floor sets the composition for the first dance.
Do you cover Armenian and Persian receptions in Burbank?
Yes — they are most of what we shoot at De Luxe. We plan the coverage around a long entrance and dancing that starts early, which means formals and the cake happen before dinner, not after.
How much does wedding photography at De Luxe cost?
Photography starts at $1,599 and video starts at $1,799, quoted individually once we know your hours and whether you want photo and film together. Burbank is inside our normal coverage area, so there is no travel charge.
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