2010 is now upon us and it looks to be a fabulous year! Wedding planning season is upon us and Denver Wedding Films wants to help you with your wedding planning. We’ll be bringing 2 new segments to help provide you with the information you need to plan your wedding.
Our first new segment will feature local Denver wedding vendors. Every month we’ll dive into one of our featured vendors or venues to give you a little bit more information about them. We’ll also tell you why we enjoy working with them and how they work in sync with us to help capture the best video of your memories.
Our second new segment will help to educate couple on wedding films, videos and videographers. We’ll give you questions that you need to ask videographers. We’ll explain the difference between wedding films and videos. We’ll equip you with the knowledge that you need to make an informed choice whether you are looking for a videographer in Denver or New York.
So everyone is still feeling the effects of the recession, but you really want an exciting, beautiful wedding film. Denver Wedding Films would like to help by offering our new Layaway and Wedding Film Registry programs. Details can be seen on our Payment Options page.
This was a great year for Denver Wedding Films. We got to meet a lot of great couples, families and brides. We got to record video of a lot of great weddings and see a lot of great venues. This year we began offering cinematic wedding films that are a fresh approach to wedding videography. They have given us a chance to be more passionate about the videos we create. I’m really excited at how this year went and I can only look forward to next year.
2010 looks to be a very exciting year for us. This Christmas season has seemed to be a great engagement time. In just the past week, the phone has been off the hook with newly engaged folks inquiring about wedding videos. We’re gearing up for a mid-January bridal show at the Three Trees Chapel in Littleton where we are the preferred videographer.
I’m also excited to announce two new plans to help our wedding films fit into your budget. The first is a lay away plan. Spread payments over as many months as you’d like before your wedding. The second is a wedding video registry. This will allow your guests to give you gifts of $50, $75, $100 or $150 towards your wedding film. As an extra bonus, each of your guests that gives you a gift from the registry will be given a complimentary DVD copy of your wedding.
I would like to thank all of the couples that we worked with in 2009 for making it the best year yet, for Denver Wedding Films and I would like to thank the couples that we have booked so far for 2010; you’re already part of what will be come our best year again.
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Denver Wedding Films' bride Adrienne walking down the aisle
On a cold, snowy October evening at the Willow Ridge Manor in Morrison, Colorado, Paul and Adrienne became husband and wife. Although the ceremony had been scheduled to be outside, the wedding ended up being just perfect inside. With snow falling in the background, Father Marty of Rent A Priest guided them through their ceremony while staying off to the side of the wedding party, allowing this to be a truly intimate wedding.
With the snow, the red and white colors and the hot chocolate, Paul and Adrienne’s wedding almost looks like a Christmas wedding. Adrienne’s dress was perfect, thanks to her seamstress Christine of CH Studios Custom Clothier, and Girls and Curls (who have one of the most creative wedding vendor names that I have seen, by the way) did an impeccable job with her hair and makeup.
The delicious wedding cake!
After their ceremony was completed, the guests moved into the parlor for drinks and mingling so that the staff of Lifestyles Catering could setup the dining area. It was a last minute idea, but I set up a camera to capture video of everyone setting up the dining area and turned it into a time lapse video that only lasts a few seconds. It is one of my favorite shots in their video and Adrienne said that she really loved that particular part as well.
After the dinner had been eaten and toasts had been made, Paul and Adrienne made their way to their gorgeous wedding cake that was expertly created by Das Meyer Pastry. As a special gift to the other couples at the wedding, an anniversary dance was held to celebrate the long lasting marriages of some of Paul and Adrienne’s family and friends. In a special moment Gregory, the owner of Willow Ridge Manor presented the couple with a special wedding cake of mashed potatoes and butter, peas and a side of gravy that represented a special story that Paul and Adrienne shared.
Fred, of Maestro Mobile Music Productions, did an amazing job with the sound and music. With his help, the dance floor was hoppin’ the entire night! Everyone seemed to have a tremendous time, especially the bride and groom who seemed just smitten with each other all night long. Traci and Nic Turchin of Real Photography did an outstanding job of capturing the day with still pictures. Willow Ridge Manor was beautifully decorated thanks to the florists, Hillside Consultants, Inc., who also created an enormous but beautiful bouquet for Adrienne and other wonderful floral arrangements for the bridal party.
As a little something extra, Adrienne came to me wanting to surprise Paul by singing a song and including it on the wedding video. She has an amazing voice and we were able to record it well enough so that I could then mix it with a song. It came out better than I could have imagined. She was thrilled with it and Paul was very surprised when it came up while we were watching their wedding video for the first time. Paul had initially not wanted a wedding videographer, but was convinced otherwise by his brother. After he watched the video for the first time he said that he was reallyglad that they got a video after all.
I was truly grateful to be a part of such a happy couples amazing wedding and create a video that would save their memories for ever. Here’s what Paul and Adrienne had to say about their wedding video from Denver Wedding Films™:
“Thank you thank you thank you for capturing our wedding on film and for being so (dang) talented. The DVD is INCREDIBLE.
I keep watching it and I bawl every time! Tye – you’re amazing!“
-Adrienne
This holiday season, Denver Wedding Films™ and Videography is offering a free Bride and Groom Love Story Video with the purchase of any signature wedding video package. A bride and groom love story is an exciting way to express the feelings you and your fiancé have for each other before the wedding and to help document how you met. The Love Story is a 5 minute video that is recorded prior to your wedding. We sit down with you and your fiancé both individually and together to let you talk about how you met each other and how you fell in love. It is a truly touching addition to your wedding video that you can watch anytime you want.
Hint: it is especially good to watch this video on your wedding anniversaries!
Your wedding video package doubles in value, for free! With this deal you’ll get twice as many DVDs as your package includes!
For example, if your video package includes 3 DVD copies you’ll receive 6!
If your video package includes 10 DVD copies then you’ll receive 20!
Like weddings, quinceañeras are an important event for many families. Thousands of dollars will be spent to make sure she has a very special day. Quinceañeras are therefore an important part of family history and deserve to be remembered on video. A girl will love to share the video of her quinceañera when she has her own daughter.
However, there are very few, if any, dedicated quinceañera videographers. Many videographers have never recorded or even attended a quiñceanera. Wedding videographers, however, can be easily found in Denver or any city. With a quick read of this guide, any experienced wedding videographer should be able to record a quinceañera. Because of my experience in filming quinceañeras, I’m going to share some tips that your videographer should know before video recording your daughter’s quinceañera.
Family and religion are the biggest themes of quinceañeras, use that theme in the video.
Religious tradition is an important part of quinceañeras and should be captured in a video.
The girl's court will perform a waltz, similar to the first dance at a wedding and is another important addition to her video.
The changing of a girl's shoes signifies her coming of age at her quinceañera.
The father daughter dance is one of the most important moments of a quinceañera
The padrinos (god parents) help sponsor a girl's quinceañera
Quinceañeras are a celebration of a girl’s coming of age. As the name implies, a quinceañera occurs on her 15th birthday. Typically, the quinceañera begins with a religious ceremony where she reaffirms her religion in the presence of her family and friends. A reception is held afterward that usually includes dinner. After dinner, the girl, her escort, and her court take to the dance floor and perform a waltz. The girl’s father then replaces her flat shoes with high heels and begin the father daughter dance. At some point in the evening girl’s padrinos (god parents) will be introduced. Padrinos typically provide service gifts (hiring the dj, cake designer, etc) or money to help put on the quinceañera.
From an event video stand point, the quinceañera is similar in many ways to the modern wedding. The day starts with a religious ceremony and ends at a reception with dinner, dancing, cake cutting, etc. Even the decor may be similar to a wedding. The main difference is that there is no groom, just the girl’s escort, so the video should be all about her and her family.
I will run through some quick tips that should help a wedding videographer create a successful quinceañera video.
As long as you give some pointers to your videographer, an up to date time line, and complete information of the events that will be occurring, they’ll be able to produce a fabulous quinceañera video that resembles their high quality wedding videos.
