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.
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…..
Life passes us by so quickly; we sometimes miss an immortal moment because we blinked or were so caught up in our own emotions, we could not see it. It’s happened to me more times than I care to count.
For instance, I’m looking through the camera viewfinder while shooting, and a moment of incredible beauty and poignancy will get captured on camera but not registered on my consciousness. Then later, when I’m into the editing process, I’ll see it again and get the full impact. During this process I can use my editing tools: slow motion, filters, and most importantly, the music and voices of the day. For me, it’s déjà vu in HD; it’s the favorite part of my job.
Our newest Lifetime team members, Mark and Sam (Samantha) Roberts captured a good number of these amazing moments throughout this May wedding. Mark and Sam got all of the bridal preparation activities and some great footage from the ceremony and reception. Audio specialist, Danny Hutchison, mixed the sound with his usual deft touch. Kudos to all three of you.
Meet bride and groom, Chris and Lindsay. These two, the bridal parties, and both families gave us so much to work with that there was never a dull moment.
For the 2nd time in 6 months we were fortunate to join forces with Sandra and Shad Reed of Sandra Reed Photography. Special thanks to Alison Wenstrup of Aviva Events for recommending Lifetime for this wedding.
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.
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.
Emily and Michael pulled out all the stops with this jaw dropping wedding. Everything took place in the historic Hall of Mirrors March 27th. There were some amazing moments including this cute little ring bearer who decided to stop right in front of my camera to give me his best smile.
This was our first time working with Jo Panarello of Panarello Consulting who was assisted by my dear friend Joyce Smith of Weddings Unlimited . Ashley Judy of the Hilton, Goodwin Lighting and the incomparable Robin Wood of Robin Wood Flowers joined forces to transform the Hall into an astonishing work of art. Please note the time lapse shot of all this, as the room comes together right after the wedding. The icing on the cake was having the The Mystics perform. Emily even got up on stage to dance with them!
Special thanks to Mike Bresnen for recommending Lifetime for this one.
Sometimes couples get a little anxious right before they exchange wedding vows. This is one of those times. Meet one of my personal favorite bride and grooms of 2009, Corrine and Brad. The Lifetime team spent morning until night with this amazing couple and captured some very funny moments.
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