We just finished shooting Shannon & Devin’s wedding and they decided they wanted to use sparklers to end the evening as they walked out of the beautiful Lighthouse Sound and into their car. Although it wound up looking beautiful, we did pick up some tips that would make the ending to your wedding night much more sparkly! 
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You know, I got to thinking while we were at Video’08 this year that we turn away a lot of brides. In fact, this year, we’ve turned away as many brides as we’ve booked and every single time, it breaks my heart that we’re not able to help them. So that got me thinking…
Just because we’re not available to videotape the wedding day doesn’t mean we can’t help you with some kind of add-on product. We do a lot more than just wedding day videos. Naturally, you’d want to make sure the videographer you hire to do your wedding day video doesn’t have a problem with it (assuming you get one — which I pray that every bride I have to turn away finds someone).
We can do a bridal elegance session, an engagement shoot, a photo montage, or a trash the dress shoot. (NOTE: The Trash the Dress shoot is something we’re dying to do but haven’t actually done yet. The link above takes you to my good friend, Darrel Aubert out of Philadelphia and shows you a sample he did.)
So try to think beyond the wedding day video. A bride in her wedding dress is an absolutely beautiful sight to behold. You should strongly consider preserving those memories forever in as many ways as possible.
Rob and I are getting ready to leave the annual 4EverGroup Video’08 conference. Every year a huge number of wedding videographers from around the country get together to swap videos and ideas. The main purpose is to give everyone new ideas and new energy for the coming year and WHEW did they ever…
We got some great ideas for this coming year and those of you who were smart enough to book us early are really going to get some spectacular videos. If you haven’t already booked us for 2008, you may be too late. We’ve almost completely booked our spring/summer season (but there are still a couple of dates left) and are starting to fill up our summer/fall season. Please don’t wait until the last minute to call us. We would love to be able to fill up every single weekend in the fall so we can give as many brides and grooms as possible what we humbly feel is the absolute best wedding video they will be able to get.
Well, we’re sitting here at the 5th annual Seaside Dance Academy holiday special getting ready for the evening show and I have to tell you, if you haven’t seen these guys and gals put on their holiday show, you have no idea what you’re missing. Every one of these kids put their heart and soul into a great show to kick off what I consider to be the closing of the holiday season. Let’s face it, Santa arriving at the Macy’s thanksgiving day parade starts the Christmas season but this show, to us, really brings it all home.
We still have DVD’s available for sale from past years and this years will be available around mid January. Drop us a line if you’re interested in buying one of these. They’re a lot of fun to watch to get in the holiday mood.
There’s a new trend in weddings today. If you haven’t heard about it yet, you will soon. It’s called “Trash The Dress.” This article is a good read on what exactly that means.
My personal favorite line from that article sums up exactly what “Trash The Dress” means and why it should be important to you:
“I am just as excited about these pictures as I am about the ones that were taken on my actual wedding day! To me the pictures crystallize my own feelings after all the planning, worrying, and stressing about the wedding was over.”
Yesterday we shot a wedding that was outdoors at the beautiful Rehoboth Beach Country Club. If you are considering a destination wedding, I would highly recommend you contact Cheryl at the country club and schedule a visit. We’re planning on doing a sit down interview with her about this location because it is truly becoming our favorite place to shoot.
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We’ve been in the wedding business for a little over 6 years and it’s pretty interesting for us to go back and look at our style 6 years ago and compare it with today. It reminded me just how important it is for brides to find a videographer who’s style suits them.
Ever notice that some wedding videos you see just “feel” amateurish while others feel like you are watching an actual feature length movie? It’s not an accident that you get all emotional when watching a love story or your heart races when you’re watching an action film. Every single shot is carefully constructed to make you feel and think exactly what the director wants you to feel and think. You can’t quite put your finger on it but there’s just something “different” about a professionally produced wedding video. Well, we’re going to pull back the curtain and share some behind the scenes stuff with you and help you understand how that works so you can really dissect a potential videographer’s work. This stuff will help you separate the pros from the wannabe’s.
Well, after several months, we’ve rolled out a couple of new features on the website.
First, you should notice a difference in our video theater. The layout is similar to YouTube in that you can now see videos that are related to the current video. In addition, you can see other clips from the same video. We’d love to hear some feedback from you if you like it.
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If you are considering wedding video, you need to contact us quickly. We’re almost completely full for our spring/summer season and have a few key dates left in our Fall season. We’ve also begun taking bookings for 2008. Obviously, word is getting around that we are the premiere wedding videography company on the Delmarva peninsula.