Ever since Gaby and I founded The Wedding Central, and started creating Wedding videos and wedding photography, we have always wanted to create Documentary style wedding videos. Through the years, since most of the requests were for a more traditional approach, we opted to follow the trend of a more classic wedding video, with our touch, but with the same structure. Usually, I begin with a musical recap with wedding pictures taken by Gaby or images from the actual wedding video. Then, I jump right to the ceremony, the reception, and the wedding video with another musical recap, including again some of the pictures taken by Gaby from our wedding photography portfolio and images from the wedding.
During the last couple of weeks, I’ve felt that I wanted more of our wedding videos. I am not suggesting that I don’t like my current ones, let me be clear, but I wanted to move beyond, by including more storytelling. I felt that there are many aspects of the wedding that we don’t get to see, and through my videos, I wanted to discover more about the couple and their wedding preparation.
Fortunately, Ayaiza and Frank volunteered to do this wedding video, documentary style. This particular video has a TV show inspired theme, and we are really, really happy with it.
It was really amazing to work in this project. A few days before the wedding, we spent a whole day at venue and during the hair and make-up trial taking pictures and recording video . As you can see in parts of this video, the wedding ceremony was going to take place at the terrace of the Marriott Biscayne Bay but unfortunately, it was very windy and cold (even though it was Miami).
Finally, Ayaiza changed plans and changed the ceremony site to another terrace at the hotel which was a bit cold that day but much less than the former one.
Moving on!! We had the opportunity to be part of the wedding rehearsal a day before the wedding. It was good as I could test the sound equipment and the place where I was going to film the wedding.
Finally, the wedding day. I turned the camera on and didn’t turn it off until almost the end. I was lucky to capture Dianevis and her staff from Casa Diri’s doing their amazing job and get to film the whole family and friends getting ready.
The ceremony: Ah, what can I say about it. I am not going to describe every detail of what happened but “It was amazing”. Reverend Gregorio was who married them and his experience and his way to conduct the whole wedding ceremony was “Fenomenal” (words of Ayaiza).
The rest of the night was pure FUN!!!! With mostly cuban and american music, the DJ herd the whole salon to the dance floor and the party did not stop until the very end.
What can say about this style of wedding videos. I’m completely in love with it, and I will always recommend this Wedding video documentary style to all our clients. It doesn’t have to include many vendors, but at least, get the emotions of what the bride and the groom feel about each other in a short interview.
Could you imagine in five or six years, you watch your wedding video and literally is like renewing their vows by just watching this type of wedding video.
Here is Ayaiza and Frank’s short version of their wedding video. I hope you like it!
So long, folks!!!
Danny
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