Wedding Entrance Hit on YouTube

We've seen people dancing into their Grand Entrance at their wedding reception, but at the processional for the ceremony? That is what newly weds Kevin Heinz and Jill Peterson did at their wedding ceremony a few months ago, and the video shared on YouTube has caught some attention worldwide.


I think what this couple did was very creative, and fun. It looked like everyone in their wedding party had fun doing it, and their guests were quite engaged to this unusual entrance as well.


Hey, it's your wedding. Whatever ways you can make it fun and uniquely yours is only limited to your imagination! Hope you'll enjoy this video as much as I do.

Will you ever consider doing this?

I saw this clip on The Today Show, and thought I should share the video with brides around the world. While the idea of "trash the dress" gives photographers and brides the opportunities to express their creativity and unconventional sides, this is certainly not for everybody.


I myself would choose to eBay my wedding gown if I don't think I'd ever wear it again - at least someone else can get an inexpensive gown and the dress gets "recycled." For now though, I am still holding on to my preserved gown, hoping that I would be able to give it away either as an heirloom some day, or a gift to a friend or relative.

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08.30.09 Cindy & Thomas's Wedding Recap

Cindy has been my best friend since junior high, so when she called me in May to announce the good news that she got engaged, I asked her what I can do to help. It turned out that she already got her ceremony location in mind - the redwood grove in the Berkeley Botanical Garden. Having an available location picked made planning a wedding 3 month from the engagement quite feasible. Also, Cindy had pretty distinct ideas of what she wanted for her wedding, so coordinating for her wedding was a breeze! My only challenge was that I'm in Southern Cal and the wedding is in Northern Cal, and I am not familiar with the area, so unfortunately in selecting vendors, I could not contribute much. All I did was give Cindy some ideas.

Group photo at the redwood grove (picture by Jesse)

Cindy & Tom wanted a small and intimate wedding with about 45-50 people. They wanted a short, non-religious ceremony follow by a casual reception where everyone gets to party and enjoy the food. Being environmentally conscious, she sent her wedding invite with eVite, and almost all of her guests RSVP through that. She took my suggestion and had Greg, my husband, married her & Tom.

A few other things made her wedding really unique: she has no wedding party, she has a customized wedding dress that she designed, a band consisted of guitarist & violinist to play bluegrass music for the ceremony as well as the beginning of her reception, and she had none of the typical wedding activities like bouquet or garter toss, slide show, or party favors. Toasting was basically free-style.

As much as things are very casual with Cindy & Tom' wedding, there were still things to coordinate to ensure her wedding day went as smoothly and carefree as she wanted. It did, and I had fun being involved with her wedding by being the coordinator!

Congratulations again to Cindy & Tom. What a memorable wedding!

Credits: Photography by Dann Chen.

The "stage" of the outdoor mini amphitheater

Guests of the wedding waiting for the bride to march down

Here comes the bride with her beautiful bouquet!

Exchange of rings

The kiss

The violinist playing at the reception

Street view of the reception site - Adagia Restaurant (picture by Peggy)

 

The reception room & the centerpiece (pictures by Peggy)

The reception

The salmon & the steak were both delicious! (pictures by Peggy)

The flower and the cake

Cutting the cake

Latest Wedding Trends - Part II

When we got married in 2004, film was on the verge of being converted to digital almost completely. At the time, 35mm was still considered better quality than digital photography because of the limitation on the mega-pixels. The same goes with edited video footage of your wedding day.


I remembered my husband didn't even want video initially, but after a visit with a videographer, we totally changed our mind, and we are glad that we did the video, because things in motion are definitely different than things in stills. While great photography tells good stories based on the moment the pictures were captured, a movie transcends the mood and the tone of your big day with much more power.


With video, our 8-hour day was condensed to an one-hour movie which can help us reminisce our wedding day any time. At the time, many wedding day videos we've seen are mostly raw footage of the whole day, documentary style, so imagine our appreciation of a nicely edited wedding video that can be played like a movie.


Well, the past few weddings I've been to this year, I noticed a new trend has emerged, due to the awesome development of technology, and it's taking that wedding day video to a step above - it's call "same-day-edit," which is a highlight reel of your entire wedding day in as little as 3-5 minutes, mostly shared as a presentation toward the middle of the bride & groom's reception. 


If your wedding day video is like a movie, then the same-day-edit is like the preview for the movie - it contains all the heart-wrenching scenes that makes you want to watch the movie!


Same-day-editing videos also makes sharing your big day online with friends & family that much easier.


Here are some samples of a same-day-edit, this one below is the work of Ray & Joyce from Still Motion:



yen+tom // the trailer from stillmotion on Vimeo.



Here's one from Ray & Joyce's wedding day, produced by Still Motion in collaboration with MindCastle:



joyce + raymond // stillmotion special edition sde // LA from stillmotion on Vimeo.

Want to hire a good videographer to do a same-day-edit for your wedding? Be sure to contact us for referrals!