We’ve tried to give you a really great idea of who we are and how we work throughout our website, not just on a professional level but also as individuals and as a couple. That’s intentional because we honestly believe that your videographer and all the other vendors playing their part in your wedding day should be more than just ‘good at what they do’. They should be ‘on your wave length’, ‘in sync’ with you and more importantly… ‘friends’ to you because you’re going to be sharing arguably the most important day of your life with them. So we wanted to make sure that our website makes you feel like you know us already and can tell that we’re a ‘good fit’ for you from the get go!
With that goal in mind, we realised that we should share our own ‘most important day of our lives’ with you before you honour us by sharing your’s (along with the birth of our 2 children of course – but I think sharing THAT with you might be considered a bit of an ‘OVERshare’ to be honest, haha).
We got married at the beautiful ‘Villa Botanica’ in Arlie Beach, QLD in September 2012… Holy schmokes that’s a long time ago (guess who’s approaching 40?! Haha)!
Now obviously we didn’t film our own wedding (though for a while there I was seriously considering wearing a GoPro under my veil) but Shaun did EDIT the entire thing himself (keeping it a surprise for me). If you watch the whole ‘shebang’ you’ll see we LOVE surprises.
Being 14 years old the film itself (and some of the styling) is VERY dated but the emotiveness of the memories it has captured and its ability to take us right back to that moment isn’t diminished by the equipment used or the videographer’s skillset at that time. A testament to the power of video and good story-telling.
Shaun did an amazing job at accurately telling ‘our story’ through his editing. It’s 30 minutes long, but it is worth a watch if you can find the time as we had a heck of a lot of unique and personal elements to our ‘big day’ which will hopefully inspire you to also push the boundaries with your own wedding.
I wrote the entire ceremony myself so that it was a complete reflection of who we are and how we had made our journey to our wedding day… ooooor maybe I’m just a control freak! Haha. We tried to think of family traditions to incorporate but in the end we created our own traditions based on our family history and the history of our relationship instead.
We dropped any wedding traditions that didn’t resonate with us, we chose some brilliant music (being English I do tend to take the piss out of myself so chose Flight of the Conchord’s ‘The most beautiful girl in the Room’ to enter the reception to) and we did it all whilst keeping the destination a surprise from our friends and family!
As a side note: Shaun took FOREVER to edit the last scene as he kept bursting into tears! Seriously! Make sure to watch it to the end as like any good story it has a good beginning and a good middle… but a really GREAT ending!
We hope watching our own wedding allows you to get to know us and inspires you to celebrate YOUR wedding day how YOU want to. Don’t be pressured into doing anything just to keep someone else happy and don’t feel like you have to follow the conventional ‘wedding checklist’ if it’s just ‘not you’.
Enjoy!
