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.
Erin and Craig could not wait to get married, just watch their facial expressions in this highlight reel.
We’re putting the finishing touches on this productions and thought you two might like a little preview.
One of the things we really pride ourselves on is getting the groom’s reaction to seeing the bride. Dan Shallenberger’s team just produced one of Lifetime’s best. In fact Dan called me after watching the raw footage and said “This is by far one of our best groom reaction ever”! When I saw it, I was blown away!
Jessica and Mike, we’re putting the finishing touches on your wedding film. You have been so patient. As you’ll see it was worth the wait. Dan or I will be in touch soon,
Again Dan or (D Shall as I call him) makes this one perfect. Some very nice work.
This is just an opinion I have formed after almost 20 years of observing weddings. I believe a successful and enjoyable wedding is based on how things move. Are you organized? Time is your enemy on the wedding day. Things do go by in a blur and you’re trying to get so much into one day. If you can, think of all your wedding vendors as one unit or a team. For one day we will quietly cheer on you and your future “teammate for life.” We want your wedding to rock. Here’s a couple suggestions that I think make a successful wedding day:
Suggestion #1 “Why can’t we be friends?”
I have mentioned a few times here on the Lifecasting blog about the photographer and videographer working well together on your wedding day. If we’re not clicking as a “team” then we’re working against you. All of your vendors should “click”. Ask vendors who they enjoy working with. Assemble your own “Dream Team”. Off to the right hand side and down a little of this post are categories of vendors we know and love to work with. They all have proven track records in their given fields.
Suggestion #2 Who’s the quarterback?
Hire a great planner/coordinator!! This is the quarterback of your vendor team, watching the clock and keeping things moving. He or she can alleviate so must stress on this one day. Even if you only do a “Day of” coordination, you’ll be amazed at how well a top notch wedding coordinator can keep things on track.
All these things came together in October with Ashley and Brian’s wedding.
This has to be one of the sweetest stories: I met with a wonderful couple Jason & Sarah nearly a year ago. They loved our work, but we were out of their budget for wedding videography. Sarah continued her search, but kept coming back to our website and the Lifecasting blog. “Nobody pulled on my heart strings like Lifetime” she told me later. She finally gave up, thinking we were just out of her price range and that she would have to settle for another company. Enter Chelsea, Sarah’s sister. “All she talked about was Lifetime” Chelsea told me. “I’d love to do this for them as a wedding gift”. So Chelsea and I met at the Taft Museum in Cincinnati and finalized all the plans. I gave her a special custom package, plus a Lifetime DVD that she wrapped and gave to Sarah at her bridal shower. When Sarah opened it she said “What’s this?” “I booked Lifetime for you Sarah, they’re going to shoot your wedding”. Sarah screamed, she was elated.
This is their first preview of the wonderful things to come. Special thanks to Dan and Greg for making this look so fantastic.
And thank you Chelsea for contacting me and letting us give Sarah and Jason a masterpiece.
I don’t know these people, so I hope I tell the story with the right characters. My son Nick was behind the camera and captured this fantastic gem in time of a newborn baby being past back to his proud father in the pews of the church. The look on this man’s face is just amazing. What touch me was I remember that feeling when I held Nick at that age. I’m glad he was the one that caught that moment, it brought me back. There’s so many of these types of moments captured also by Dan Shallenberger and myself in this highlight/trailer.
Adam and Rebecca, I’ve been working hard and we still have a couple more weeks. I know you dying to see a preview, so here ya go.
I’ll be in touch,
~mp
P.S. What helped make this production such a success was working side by side with Shad & Sandra Reed of Sandra Reed Photography. Great getting creative with you guys:)
Our tagline here at Lifetime is “Making mothers cry since 1991″. I decided to add another tagline in this opening clip. I also wanted to give one of our brides an early Christmas gift with a little preview of her up-coming film. Merry Christmas Katie & Greg:)
Outdoor weddings are my personal favorite. There isn’t a better light designer than God. Although you do run the risk of having rain while celebrating outside, when the weather does cooperate there’s absolutely nothing else like it. I love the sun shot Dan Shallenberger captures in this latest Highlight Reel. Laurie & Mohammed, you’re production still has a couple of weeks before we deliver, but as you can see, it’s coming along very nicely.
November 26th, 2009 - 5:34am | by Dan Shallenberger
To one of the sweetest brides I’ve ever worked with all day, with one of the biggest smiles, here’s a snippet of your wedding video to hold you over until the discs arrive. I wish you both all the best!
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