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Proposal

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As wedding season winds down, proposal season heats up.  According to The Knot most proposals happen during the months of November, December and February.  Jewelers start seeing an increase of young men coming into the store looking for the perfect ring.  It’s a hard decision to pick just the right ring for her.  However, for some guys, the hardest part is really the proposal itself.  Most guys will ask that special gal over dinner or out in the park during a walk.  Some even go back to a special spot that means something to the couple.

Then we have guys who get creative with their proposal. Their not content with having the gals name up on the scoreboard at a sporting event, or a plane pulling a banner across the sky.  No, these guys go that one extra step and make it not only special but also memorable.  This guy is one of my favorites:

Some guys want to make it memorable, but simple at the same time, like this guy:

But not all proposals go as planned:

Some guys have connections and can do a proposal at a Rascal Flatts Concert:

But, hands down this guy takes the cake for creativity, surprise and connections:

I think all of these proposals are wonderful and are special. Congrats to all those girls getting their special proposals.

Wedding Ceremony

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One  question I get is “What are all these choices?”  I do have a lot of choices that brides can make for their wedding video.  I have done this from the very beginning of Midnight Magic Studios because when I asked newly weds what they thought about their wedding video, one of the most common answers was “I’d like to have more choices.” or “I wish I didn’t have to choose one package with items that I don’t want to get the ones I do want”.  I felt it was time to give brides a choice and I came up with the menu that many of you have seen.  But, just what are all those choices?  What are “Memorable Interviews” and how will it look in my video? BridePod?  Bride Cam?  And the list goes on.  So, starting tonight, I going to make some simple blog post and describe each of the items on my menu.

Let’s start at the beginning. The Wedding Ceremony.  For many the Wedding Ceremony starts when the music starts and the bride walks down the aisle.  I don’t look at it that way.  For me, the Wedding Ceremony starts that morning. All the pre-ceremony prep is just as important as the vows are.  There are so many things that are going on all around you and most of the time, you would never see them.  The bride will focused on her hair & make up.  Getting herself ready. Making sure her bridesmaids have what they need. Then there is getting into the dress. The venue getting decorated for your wedding day.  The hustle of everyone doing their tasks to make your day as special and memorable as possible.  And that’s all from the brides point of view.

I’m going to be a guy for a minute and give you gals a look into how we look at weddings.  In our minds, we can put the whole things together in about 30 minutes to an hour. To us, there is not much to it.  I was that way when I got married 19 years ago.  Now that I work in the wedding business, I can tell every guy who reads this; there is a lot that goes into a wedding.  Ladies, we don’t know colors (except for the primary colors).  And our favorite phrase is “It’s what ever you want, honey.”  Most guys can get ready for their wedding day in about 30 minutes, but it is a fun 30 minutes.  A lot of guys will play golf or a quick game of basketball.  I had one groom that went rock climbing before his wedding.  He was pretty beat up before his wedding, but the bride non the wiser.  Some guys practice a special song they are going to preform at the reception.  And then, there are those guys who just set and play video games until the last possible moment.

Part of the Wedding Ceremony is also all the pre ceremony photos that are taken.  These photos are so important because it is some of the best moments you have with your best friends. You have family that gather and for some, it could be the last time they are able to be around. Some couples see each other before the ceremony and that can be an amazing moment.  Some brides like to do this, others want to stick with tradition and not see each other until she walks down the aisle.

Looking back over that list and there are a lot of things that are going on.  The amazing thing in all of this is we haven’t gotten to the actual Wedding Ceremony yet!  There is a lot of activity going on long before we ever get to the ceremony. Activity that you will never get to see or know about.

The actual ceremony is captured as it happens with non stop coverage.  I have a very strict rule when it comes to Wedding Ceremonies, once we start recording we don’t stop tape for ANY reason.  We capture the Wedding Ceremony from the very first note until you walk back up the aisle as husband and wife.  I want to give you your wedding ceremony as it happened. That means any thing that happens during the ceremony, we be captured on video.  We use multiple cameras so that we can provide you with your Wedding Ceremony from as many angles as possible. We also use digital wireless microphones that are placed on both the minster or priest and on the groom.  This allows us to capture every word of your vows to each other.  We also capture the audio in such a way as to make you feel like your standing there all over again.  The microphones I use only go to my camera, they are not broadcast in the venue.  This will give you a piece of mind knowing that the things you say to each other, will stay just between the two of you.  The other cameras have quality shotgun microphones on them to get ambient sound during your ceremony.  I combine the two to give you that feeling, again, that your right there all over again.

This give you a brief overview of the Wedding Ceremony part of your video.  There is a lot here, because there is a lot going on.  Since I don’t have time limits on any of my videos, we start your wedding day when you want to start. We can start where ever you want to start, at your home, hair salon, make up room, at the church, any where you want us to be.

That covers the Wedding Ceremony.  I hope you can tell that we put a lot of work into your video as we try really hard to capture all those special and once in a lifetime moments.

Next, we are going to talk about the reception coverage.