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.
I love to chat with brides before we start editing their production. The reason is, I want to see what you remember from your entire wedding day. Beside your photographs and your memories, your wedding film is it. My goal is to give our brides a time machine to go back to this one day. I also love to ask “Do you remember what your husband’s reaction was”? “Kinda, but I couldn’t see him when I first started down the aisle” is the most common response.
Meet Dana and Stephen. Just as I happened to catch this stunning woman looking at herself in the mirror minutes before seeing her future husband. I told her “I guarantee he’s gonna cry when he sees you” “If she was in sweats he’d cry…” one of the bridesmaids replied. After I found this gem in time, I decided to build their wedding trailer around Stephen’s reaction.
He’s just in the right place at the right time as you’ll see.
Some of my great wedding friends and some of the absolute BEST wedding vendors in all of Cincinnati teamed up for this one:
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:)
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