We had the pleasure of working with Long Haul Films through our photographer, Leah Haydock, who absolutely adored working with this wife and husband duo.
I'm not a sentimental person in general, however, when I saw trailer after trailer created by LHF, I felt a mixture of teary-eyed happiness for these new couples and sadness that the video was over. So I watched another...and another...until it was like this YouTube vortex of wedding video watching...
Each of their trailers offered such an intimate window into each couple, their relationship, and their personalities, that I felt like it was almost as if I was there experiencing it firsthand. I knew immediately that this was the way I wanted to capture this very momentous day in our lives so that we would be able to experience all the joy and happiness of being surrounded by our loved ones as we started our lives together again and again. When I first spoke to Melissa over the phone, based on my husband's and my first name, I knew it was fate.
While my husband was wary of being photographed and filmed, he was won over by the warm, quirky, and epically (is that a word? it is now) cool people we got to work with from LHF. Moreover, he has watched the trailer more than I have, and it is my hope, it will be a vital tool in my favor every time he gets upset with me.
While I think a lot of couples are faced with the tough (and expensive) investment of having both a photographer and a videographer, I do believe that they capture very different aspects of the wedding. The day happens so incredibly fast--and as much as I tried to enjoy every moment of it, so much of it was a blur. We appreciate the ability to go back and have the access to that day on both forms of media. I do not think you can replace one without the other, and they are equally essential in documenting the story of this "big day."