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An Avengers Themed Wedding // Emily and Jake’s Wedding Highlight Film From Raveneax Country Club in Spring, Texas

By on March 21, 2014 in Houston Weddings, Videos, Weddings

I’ve known Emily for going on five years now, and Jake for three.  Her and I met at Spoon’s Yogurt in College Station when she was photographing desserts for a friend’s food magazine.  Several months after meeting them I was chosen to be Impact Retreat’s Media Exec, meaning I was in charge of the photos, videos, and the website for the camp.  I ran into Emily again on campus and asked her if she wanted to be the Photographer for Impact.  Several years, many videos, and thousands of photos later, we both run companies that film and photograph weddings.

Jake entered the picture in 2011 and it was immediately apparent that he was perfect for Emily.  He also loves video games, Marvel, and anything superhero related which meant he was super cool in my book too.  I had suspicions they would be married, and when Jake emailed me asking if I could film his proposal they were confirmed.  Fast forward to November, and their wedding date was upon them.

I’ve heard it said, “Leave it to people that film and photograph weddings do it right,” and Emily was no exception to this rule.  Their wedding embodied the word classy, while still satisfying her quirks like requiring Blue Baker cookies shipped in from College Station, and her need to hand-make most of the decor.  Everything that Emily touched clearly matched her style, while everything that Jake touched matched his.

Let’s take a minute to talk about Jake’s style.  As I said, he loves anything made by Marvel, so it is no surprise that the wedding had the following:

  • Jake’s groomsmen all had Avengers themed cufflinks – each of a different superhero.
  • Instead of a Grooms cake, Emily hand created an entire miniature cityscape of cardboard and had Avengers themed cupcakes on top of the city skyscrapers.
  • When Jake and Emily left the reception, they drove off in a custom Captain America Dodge Challenger painted in the classic red white and blue with license plates that read “CPT USA” and a horn that sounded the Star Spangled Banner.

Clearly, they love their superheroes.  Of course I do too, so that made this wedding all the more fun.  If you are having a themed wedding, I would love to film it, so please get in touch!

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Ready For Anything // Candace and Tyler’s Wedding Film From The Heights Villa in Houston, Texas

By on March 5, 2014 in Houston Weddings, Videos, Weddings

I love hearing how people find my site and watch my videos.  They often say they were searching for a wedding videographer on Google, or they saw a friend’s wedding film I made and are getting married soon themselves so they looked me up.  Regardless of how they find me, I’ve heard many of them tell me they started watching a random couple’s wedding film and then start to tear up, laugh, and experience the emotion of the day with the couple in the video.  Then someone they know comes into the room and asks why they are having an emotional outburst over a couple they’ve never met.

Candace and Tyler were getting married at the Heights Villa last year, and after searching for wedding films they saw Melissa and Mason’s wedding film I shot there in 2011.  They completely fell in love with the film, and wanted something just like it.  I was happy to oblige, and I made them a film that I think has the same feel as Melissa and Mason’s, but incorporates all the improvements I’ve made as a filmmaker in the past two and a half years.

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A White Knight and His Damsel // Ellen and Jeff’s Wedding Highlight Film, Ashton Gardens Houston Texas

By on February 18, 2014 in Houston Weddings, Videos, Weddings

This has been a very busy year for the Kiel family. My friend Emily Kiel, who does all my DVD case design work, and her sister Ellen Kiel both were engaged and married within 5 months of one another.  I filmed Ellen’s wedding in July, and Emily’s wedding in November.  Please don’t ask me to choose a favorite, because they were both a lot of fun to film.

This blog post is all about Ellen and Jeff’s wedding though, so let’s concentrate on them.  They met at their office, when Jeff said hello after overhearing Ellen and a coworker speaking about how Ellen doesn’t like to cook.  Jeff, you see, LOVES to cook and he was looking for a woman who would let him cook for her. They hit it off, started dating, and a bit down the road Jeff was ready to propose. Of course he enlisted Emily to help, by making Ellen think they were having a photo shoot complete with cute signs that they would hold right up until he got down on one knee and proposed.  Incidentally, you can read all about the proposal and see the photoshoot on Emily’s blog.  And if you want even more details, you can read the proposal and Ellen’s own words.

I hope you enjoyed watching Ellen and Jeff’s video, because there’s another Kiel wedding video coming out soon!

Big thanks to Daniel Karr for helping me film this wedding!  We shot it with two Sony FS100s and the footage was beautiful!

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He’s Got Chubby Knuckles // Jourdan and Jeremy’s Wedding Highlight Film at The Gallery in Houston, Texas

By on February 5, 2014 in Houston Weddings, Videos, Weddings

I feel like half the weddings I post are of people that I met through Impact Retreat at Texas A&M.  Thankfully, there are only a couple hundred more people that I know because of Impact, so I should be done posting Impact weddings somewhere around the year 2060.  With that in mind, I met Jeremy through Impact was back in 2010 when he was co-chair for the orange camp named Gad.  He was the cool guy that worked at Olive Garden, and if you watch the video above, you’ll know that Olive Garden is how he met Jourdan.

Filming their wedding day was completely awesome.  Jourdan and Jeremy embody the laid back, relaxed kind of couple that I love to film.  I had fun, they had fun, and they weren’t afraid to laugh at themselves when they do things like struggle to fit the ring on to Jeremy’s finger.  Can we talk about their toasts too?  You know when the dad pulls out six pages of material it is going to be good.  The toasts, combined with Jourdan and Jeremy’s laid back personalities made telling the story of their day easy.

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I Will And I Do // Cory and Taylor, Butler’s Courtyard, League City Texas

By on December 13, 2013 in Houston Weddings, Videos, Weddings

One of the reasons I love filming weddings is because it is the day when it is most obvious that a couple is in love.  The bride is radiant with joy, the groom is ready to shout with excitement, and they both are struggling to hold back tears of happiness.  Cory and Taylor are the reason I film weddings.  On their wedding day, their love was almost tangible in the air.  There were no lies that day, no hiding their feelings, no doubt about how they felt about one another.  Just radical honesty that he loved her, she loved him, and they were both ready to spend forever together.

They wrote their own vows, and I believe they capture their feelings for one another perfectly.  I encourage you to read them when you watch their highlight film.

Cory //

Taylor, in front of our family and friends gathered here today, I promise to love and cherish you through the good times and the bad.
I promise to encourage your compassion, because that is what makes you unique.
I promise to nurture your dreams, because through them your soul shines.
I promise to help shoulder our challenges, because there is nothing we cannot face together.
I promise you myself whenever you need me or whenever you don’t.
I promise to be faithful and supportive, and to always make our family’s love and happiness my top priority.
You are my best friend, my confidant, and my greatest challenge.
You have filled my heart with love and my life with joy.
Most importantly, you are the love of my life, and I promise to continue to adore you and make you feel special each and every day.
I promise to love you always and forever.

Taylor //

Cory, I truly believe God has made me your soulmate.
There is no one in this world more perfect for me.
I always say that we click and we clash in the right way to make a perfect harmony.
As your best friend, I am the one who will laugh with you and listen when your thoughts need to be heard.
As the one who loves you, I cherish you above all else.
Ephesians 4:2 says, “Be completely humble and gentle, be patient and bearing with one another.”
I vow to do just that.
I promise to love you unconditionally, to stand by your side no matter what, and let you guide me.
First Peter 4:8 says “Above all, love each other deeply.  Because love covers a multitude of sins.”
I may not be perfect and pure, but our love is.
I vow to you on this day because I know the man you are.
I know your intentions.
I know your strengths and your weaknesses.
And I know above all that I love you.
This is why I stand here vowing to love you and only you forever and into eternity.

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