Telling a family’s story on film has 3 key ingredients: telling the story, seeing what happens, and hearing the music enhance the story’s flow. This is by far one of the most heartfelt and emotional toasts from a child to a parent we have ever captured on film. Meet Mollie, the storyteller. Mollie is the daughter of Tracie. Tracie married Mike in June of 2010. Mollie’s wedding toast to her mother and her new husband relates how Tracie devoted herself to raising two children alone, always putting Mollie and brother, Zack, before herself. Of course, as children will do, Mollie and Zack grew into wonderful adults and set out on lives and careers of their own. Only then, as if on cue, did Mike come into Tracie’s life, The rest, as they say, is history. Well, I’ll tell you, by the time Mollie was finished with their story, there wasn’t a dry eye in the room; everyone was in tears, including the entire Lifetime crew.
Paul Brown Stadium is an incredible venue to host a wedding and reception. There’s just so much space to work with. Meet Jenni & Mike who started dating around the age of 15. They had a bit of a break and then found each other again. True love. The Lifetime crew had a blast. Spending almost 13 hours capturing everything from the bridal prep to the last dance, there wasn’t a dull moment. Special thanks to Mark & Sam Roberts for some amazing camera work and Danny Hutchinson for working his magic with sound.
Special thanks to April of Bluebird Photography for the introduction to this wonderful couple.
Lisa and Scott, this is just a preview of things to come this Fall.
Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity.
Couples planning a wedding in Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky and Dayton are so lucky. In the past couple of years, several hundred wedding specialists: caterers, florists, wedding coordinators, photographers – everyone you might need – have formed an extremely powerful networking web.
About 200 of us got together last Wednesday, July 14, A NIGHT OF NIBBLING: Wedding Vendors for Charity at the amazing Leapin’ Lizards Art Gallery. The event featured 4 of the area’s foremost caterers who vied for “Best of The Evening” title: Eatwell, A La Cart, Bensons, and Creations by Melody.
We all sampled their dishes and voted for our favorites, paying $5 for each ballot. We collected quite a bit of money, of which 100% went to charities designated by the caterers. Donations were made to Lighthouse Youth Services, Cincinnati Parks, USO-Operation Enduring Care, and The Greenacres Foundation Equine Center. The charities benefited, and the vendors had a blast.
As an added bonus my dear friend Tracy Bellman (T-Bell as I know her) of Tres Belle Cakes provided some delectable cupcakes. The incredible Jeff Martin of Le Sucre Bakery entertained us all by deconstructing a traditional wedding cake Jackson Pollack style. It was something to see.
Special thanks to Mark and Sam Roberts for capturing some amazing footage.
Capturing who attended your wedding is so important. Years from now having the ability to go back in time; and remember everyone.
Some wonderful facial expressions in this reception opening.
The next time you attend a wedding. Make sure you turn to see the groom’s reaction. This one is priceless and with a soundtrack! Both Emily and Tim provided us with some amazing descriptive words to what they thought it was going to be like to see each other that day. Watch what happens, it’s almost like they predicted the future…..
First, a tale of two photographers:
A huge thank you to my dear friend Angela of Essenza Studio for recommending Lifetime to this wonderful couple. If you haven’t seen Essenza’s work, it’s nothing short of amazing. Creating side by side with her and her crew is always a blast. The creatively flows freely and it’s so exciting to see what the other comes up with. I also want to thank another still photographer friend of mine Sherri Barber of Sherri Barber Photography. She came in an actually shot video (the small detail shots) with her Cannon SLR camera. I loved mixing her stuff in with the film we captured.
I’m a little bias, but I truly believe Lifetime has the best looking clients:) Meet Caroline and Pete. They couldn’t take thier eyes off each other all day. Everything was perfect! Plus the background of both St. Rose and Hyde Park Country Club added to this incredible day.
At Lifetime we are inspired by you and your vision of your wedding day. When I saw ice sculptures hanging from the ceiling at Liz and Stuart’s wedding reception my jaw hit the floor. This entire room at Hyde Park Country Club took people’s breath away. Everything from the start of the day to the last dance of the night was amazing. It also helped that we were working with a stunning bride and a handsome groom:)
Liz and Stuart; your wedding film is starting to take shape, we thought you’d enjoy a little preview. I’ll be in touch soon.
Are you a guy? Are you in love? Have you been thinking about popping the question to a special someone, but want to make it memorable? NOW’s your chance. From now until December 31, 2010 anyone who books a wedding with Lifetime can have the marriage proposal filmed by us absolutely free. As an added bonus we will include one of the professional photographers listed here on our blog to shoot the proposal with us. Restrictions do apply, so please call or e mail me for all the details. Offer available to NEW clients only.
Below is an example of what we can do when we combine everything together.
One of my personal favorite times of the year to shoot a wedding is within the first 2 weeks of April. Everything is in bloom and feels so fresh and new.
Meet Tim and Kelly, an amazing couple that always had a smile on their faces (making our job easy). We were blessed to work with Amanda, Jerri & Susan some of the wonderful people from Images by Daniel Michael. My old friend Newmar Maize of Maize Music had the dance floor packed at the reception.
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