Wedding Blog

I am so excited to write this post, and for the last several months I didn’t know if this post was possible. You see, I fell in love with videography, and more specifically, Super 8 videography. But with our surmounting wedding costs, I was worried that it was something that we just couldn’t incorporate into the budget.

However, the more I thought about it, the more…

In my last video post, I introduced you to our lovely videographer, Wilson Fontaine. One of the cool things that Wilson does is incorporate more casual, pre-wedding footage with the wedding day events to create a complete story. With that in mind, Mr. Hammy and I met Wilson in Central Park to get some casual footage.

Mr. Hamster and I wore the same outfits we selected…

While I was at Bridal Market this year, Mrs. Bee introduced me to a really neat concept that we wanted to share with the hive: video that can be displayed in print material, like in your wedding album. The technology, called My Video My Voice, is essentially a video screen so thin that can be incorporated into pretty much any print material you can think…

Heeello, happy.

We got our wedding highlight video from our friends at Digital Princess Productions… wanna see?

Here is short clip from our full edited wedding film by Wes Jones. I’m so happy to be able to share this with you all! I’ll admit, I make all of our family and friends watch it when they come over to our house. When I first saw one of his films, I thought, ‘That’s it! That’s how I want to go down in history!…

I am taking a break from our recaps to share our wedding trailer with you. I am so excited to have hired a videographer to capture the day. It seriously made an impact on the day. We decided to go with Focal Point Weddings to shoot the day. We loved their style and knew that it would be just what we wanted.

Today they shared our…

My love affair with Super8 began 5 years ago (I know, longer than my relationship with the mans) when I was researching videographers for my sister’s wedding. Just when I thought I couldn’t watch another 5 minute recap of a stranger’s wedding, I came across Wilson Fontaine and immediately fell in love with her work – see for yourself on her site:

Wilson Fontaine

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I had a bridesman in the wedding. He is my best friend Patrick. He came from New York City to be part of the wedding and it was better because he was there. He is a huge part of my life. Each week Patrick and I do a vlog on YouTube about reality television. And we decided to do a wedding vlog because our viewers…

I received our highlight video from the super talented Digital Princess Productions, (a vendor rec from Mrs. Meatball!) and it made me so happy. I got butterflies in my stomach, and I was transformed back to that sweet day. Since then, I can’t stop watching it. It’s actually pretty fun to see the whole event on camera! If you can swing it, I’d highly recommend…

I love slideshows! I love seeing baby pictures, the pictures of your awkward junior high days, the pictures of when you were the skinniest (typically in high school), and old family pictures. I knew exactly who was going to do our slideshow, because luckily, one of my friends is a very talented visual artist! I’ve seen him do slideshows in the past at friends’ weddings, and Mr.…

It’s been almost exactly 2 years since we’ve been married… eek! Back when I was planning my wedding, I knew I wanted to invest in a wedding video, but it was just not in our budget. If I wanted it done, I wanted it done WELL, and professionally! I’ve heard of so many brides regretting not having a videographer because they were so busy that day. Luckily,…

Recently, as of about six months ago, I met my new technological love. This beauty is attractive, fashion-forward, fits in my party clutch, and is always there when I need her. Friends, meet your new best bud: The Flipcam.

I can’t tell you how handy this lil’ number has been... I’ve broken her out for parties, nights out, everyday life - and perhaps MOST handily, at weddings and while on vacation. I absolutely love my Flipcam! My favorite part about her is that she fits in my purse.

When I introduced you to our photographer, I told you we had decided against going the friendor route because of the huge responsibility that comes with the job. When it came to videography we had a more relaxed take, which meant a Friendor was a contender. We do want a nice video, but did we need a cinematic wonder? Maybe, maybe not. If you ask our budget, it will say "no". Lucky for us, our friends know how to wield a camera.

We’ve hit the big 1-0-0 mark on the countdown.

Okay, I’m officially freaking out.

To make matters worse, Mr. Lab and I have been fighting. And it’s about something that we should not even be arguing about: the "need" for a wedding cinematographer. It’s a long story and I won’t get into the specifics. We’ve finally come to a compromise and I don’t want to open up any fresh wounds. But boy was it exhausting.

I have to say when we started planning, videography didn’t even make it on to the list of things we were concerned about or wanted to spend money on. A large majority of the wedding videos I had seen up to that point had been pretty boring—think single camera fixed on the bride and groom set to Enya’s greatest hits. Something like that was not…