Category: Dallas Weddings


Vince and RiahI’m sure you’ve heard the expression, “Time flies when you’re having fun.” I think that also applies to spending time with someone we enjoy being around. Hours can seem like seconds when we experience an ache of love in our hearts for the first time. Days turn into months which turn into years so quickly when spent with the object of our affection. Before we know it a decade has passed, full of memories, ups and downs, but above all love.

I’ll admit that this hasn’t happened to me yet. Yes on the love and time passing quickly, but I have yet to hit a decade of love for my wife. We didn’t start dating until 2011, so we aren’t even halfway there yet. But time is flying.

Vince and Mariah on the other hand have my wife and I soundly beat in this area. They met in high school, survived a hardcore phase with long hair and tight jeans, and managed to emerge from college still together, albeit with pink hair and hipster glasses. Ten years and still going strong.

I'll leave it up to you to decide if they look cooler now or back then.

I’ll leave it up to you to decide if they look cooler now or back then.

I learned a lot about love while filming and editing their wedding. God describes love as a lot of things: patient, kind, but the one quality of love that strikes me with Vince and Mariah’s wedding is that it perseveres. Through the good and the bad, over all this time, their love hasn’t faltered. There’s something there that we can all learn from their relationship.

Shot with the Sony FS100 and Canon 7D. Edited using Adobe Premiere Pro CC.

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I always associated the Texas State Fair with deep fried food and over-sized cowboys on fire. Imagine my surprise when I discovered you can get married there too! Not at the actual fair mind you, although that would be cool and I would assume that instead of cake there would be deep fried Twinkies and dinner would consist of Sriracha Balls (look them up) with a side of obesity.

Hall of StateSue and Jong were married at The Hall of State, which I later learned is a museum of all things Texas and not a dance venue, although it felt like one by the end of the night. While there wasn’t any fried food, their love for each other made for an amazing day, with heartfelt vows, notes, and moments spent together.

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Doug and I have one of those friendships that started entirely on Facebook. There wasn’t a ton of creative people in the small town of College Station, so when I saw someone making cool stuff online I would usually immediately add them and worry about actually meeting in person later.

Doug and Kelsi Proposal

Photo courtesy of A Guy & A Girl Weddings // aguyandagirlweddings.com

We finally did meet, and in 2013 I moved to Dallas and heard that Doug was working at an amazing co-working space called WELD. He gave me a tour and I joined on the spot. It wasn’t just the cool work area, fast internet, or massive studio space, it was mostly about the people. Everyone is incredibly friendly, willing to help, and giving of their time. This makes for a great place to work, and in Doug and Kelsi’s case, fall in love.

Kelsi started working at WELD soon after I did, and while the space’s motto is “Work Here. Sparks Fly.” I don’t think they were exactly talking about the kind of sparks that Kelsi and Doug soon started putting off towards each other. Once they started dating, it was pretty obvious that they were going to get married. This was confirmed when a lot of the members of WELD piled into an RV together and rode out to Yosemite National Park for a few weeks. It was there surrounded by forest and friends that Doug proposed.

Throughout their engagement they continued to work at WELD, which made it incredibly easy to see their mounting excitement for their wedding. I was patient and waited on Doug to ask me to film his wedding, even though I knew it would be amazing. Once again in the outdoors, surrounded by the entire membership of WELD, friends, and family, Doug and Kelsi formed Delsi.

Special thanks to Ashley Hayes of Sun7Studios for helping film, and Charlie Kaye for the sweet aerial video.

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Weddings are the peak emotional moment of many people’s lives; maybe that’s why I enjoy filming them so much. I get to be a part of one of the most joyous moments that anyone will experience nearly every weekend. Everyone’s happy, the excitement is palpable, and you can actually feel a buzz in the air from how incredibly pumped everyone is. Chandler and Chelsea’s wedding took everything to the next level, and it was one of the most emotional weddings I’ve filmed all year.

Weddings are about more than just two people joining together. It really is more like two families with all their funny quirks, awkwardness, and humor, merging together. New relationships begin between uncles, cousins, dads, and grandparents. This wedding was no exception. Chelsea and Chandler have a daughter together named Cailyn, and when I first heard them talk about her I knew she was going to be a big feature of their wedding day. Usually, the weddings I film are all about the bride and groom’s love for one another, but I found this one being about that, and to an even greater extent, their love for their daughter as well.

This love was no more evident than during the ceremony when Chandler shared his vows with Chelsea, she shared hers with Chandler, and then they both shared vows with Cailyn. The love of their families was also incredibly prevalent as their wedding. Chelsea told me that she had never seen her dad cry before, and that was true up until the wedding day. I’m excited and incredibly blessed to have been able to film their wedding.

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If you ask Ashley how we met, she will undoubtedly tell you that I taught her everything I know about cameras, and then used her for all of her camera gear when I needed help with filming something. That is all true, and since meeting her in 2010 she has traveled with me all over the state filming weddings for many happy couples.

We often talked about our own weddings and promised to film each others when the time came. She started dating Tyler in 2011, and after meeting him and seeing the way that he cared about her, I knew I would be filming them in a few years. Jump ahead to June 2013, and there I was filming Tyler’s proposal to Ashley. He set it all up in the Fort Worth Botanical Gardens and completely surprised her.

My favorite part of their proposal wasn’t just getting to see Tyler get on one knee, but how he spoke about her before he proposed. I knew I was filming something exceptional when I saw how much care, love, and thought went into that moment. Their wedding is a continuation of that moment that he proposed, and it is so incredible to be able to hear Ashley’s side of it all in the her letter to Tyler. The excitement that he shows in the proposal film is mirrored perfectly in her letter. I wish I could say that I planned for it to fit together so well, but I didn’t, although I was ready with my camera when it happened.

I’ve heard it said, leave it up to the people that film weddings to have the best ones, and this definitely holds true to Ashley and Tyler’s. From the massive Omni Hotel suite overlooking the Dallas skyline while they got ready, to the trolley ride to the venue, to the vintage camera centerpieces and Edison lightbulbs, everything looked amazing in front of the camera.  The only thing better than all the beauty of the locations and decorations was the joy of Ashley and Tyler.

Special thanks to Taylor Stanley and Kylie Best for helping film this wedding. And if you want to see more of Ashley’s work, visit Sun7Studios.

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It is a big help to me when you use any of the above product links to Adorama, Amazon, and B&H and when you get anything. It costs you nothing, and helps me keep my site running. I have bought from all of these websites and I highly recommend them for their service, quality, and shipping speed.  I recommend them all personally.

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