David and Lauren - Aspen Wedding Celebration

It has been ages since we’ve updated our blog, and I can’t imagine a better way to restart than with David and Lauren’s wedding celebration in Aspen Colorado. David and Lauren got married in a small ceremony a few months before the celebration, so this entire day was all about the PARTY! This celebration absolutely had it all: the gorgeous backdrops of Apsen, great music, great decor and florals, great food, and at the center of it all, the love of an absolutely stunning couple.

The wedding featured not one, but two incredible bands, with the highlight of the night being the New York Bee Gees, a Bee Gees cover band so incredible that it felt like we were pulled right back to the 70’s with the Gibbs brothers on the stage. The decor was set up to match the disco atmosphere with dozens of disco balls hung in the tent, with a absolute show piece 6 foot disco ball at their center. Details like this are the wedding videographer’s dream, and it gave us such a playground to work in, which ultimately led to one of the most creative edits we’ve ever done.

The floral, planning and decor were provided by our good friends at byBello Events, who are some of our absolute favorite planners to work with. Lindsey and her crew are an absolute joy! Their attention to detail along every step of the way sets vendors and couples up for the least stressful weddings we ever get to be a part of, and the quality of their productions are second to none. We were also able to reunite with Megan Wynn Photography, who we’ve had the privilege of working on a number of weddings now. She does such incredible work, and is such an awesome team member to work alongside on a wedding day.

We are so lucky to get to spend our days filming and editing mountain weddings like this one. Aspen holds a special, almost mythcal, aspirational place in the hearts of most Colorado wedding vendors. The views of the resort and the surrounding 14ers, paired with the mystique of Aspen itself capture everything that is so special about Colorado, and getting to spend a weekend up in nature filming is one of the highlights of my job!

Thank you Lauren and David for letting us be a part of your wedding day! We loved making your wedding film, and we loved getting to have an opportunity to meet you and your family!

Marissa and Nick - Boulder CO Backyard Wedding

Stunning floral and details for a stunning couple!

One of the highlights of the 2021 wedding season was the opportunity to work with the amazing crew from Bello and Blue Events more than half a dozen times. Working with the same vendors over and over really builds an amazing bond of teamwork that can help create some absolutely magical weddings. Lindsey and her crew went above and beyond for Marissa and Nick’s backyard wedding in Boulder Colorado. This wedding had some of the most incredible details we’ve ever gotten to capture at a wedding, and great details make for great footage. The floral, the table settings, the lighting in the tent and so much more came together in an incredible tableau.

Stunning floral table setting and chandelier.

Marissa and Nick were as wonderful of a couple as we could ever hope to work with. They are another wedding that had to move to 2021 from their original date in 2020, and I’m so happy that their wedding came together as perfectly as they’d hoped and dreamed. It was made even more special by the wedding taking place in Nick’s parents back yard, complete with beautiful fall colors and stunning views of the mountains west of Boulder.

The wedding culminated in one of the most fun parties we have gotten to be a part of this year! The night started with Marissa serenading Nick after their first dance, and led into a party under thousands of twinkling lights, complete with a fog machine! This sort of footage is so much fun to capture, and the footage of the couple and their guests having this much fun warms our hearts! Thank you so much Marissa and Nick for letting us capture your wedding! We wish you all the best in your life together!

Drone footage of the party tent and a clip of the Hora dance!

The wedding vendor crew!

I spoke above about the joys of working with Bello and Blue, and part of what makes them so great to work with is the amazing crew of vendors they bring in!

• Floral and Planning by Bello and Blue Events

• Makeup by Lola Beauty

• Catering by Catering by Design

• Reception music by TH Entertainment

• Photography by Ross Kyker Photography

• Rentals and Decor by Colorado Party Rentals

• Lighting by Lighting & Design by Scott

Thank you all for helping us make an awesome video! So much of our success comes from all of your hard work and artistry!

Becca and Matt - Colorado Ski Resort Wedding

Fall Colors on top of Granby Ranch Ski Resort

Becca and Matt’s anniversary celebration at Granby Ranch was one of the weddings I was looking forward to most in 2021, and it absolutely did not disappoint! Last year, I was lucky enough to get to shoot this wonderful couple’s elopement on top of one of Colorado’s 14ers, which was one of the absolute highlights of my career. The opportunity to reconnect with this amazing couple, and capture the wedding they’d originally planned was so special, and we are SO happy with how their second video came out!

In my last blog post for a Granby Ranch wedding, I said that the wedding deck on top of the mountain might be the best view from any venue in Colorado, and this wedding did nothing to change that opinion! Combine that gorgeous view with Granby Ranch being one of the few resorts that allows drones, and it has quickly become my favorite resort to shoot at. This video contains some of my favorite drone wedding video shots I’ve ever captured, with the fall foliage making what would already be amazing footage pop even more!

Becca and Matt, thank you so much for trusting me to capture your wedding not once, but two separate times! We wish you all the best in your life together as your family expands!

The Awesome Vendor Crew

The core to Becca and Matt’s vendor crew was the amazing TeNeil Hartley from TeNeil Hartley Events. I was lucky enough to get to work with TeNeil twice this year, and after those two weddings she rocketed to the top of my list of favorite planners.

Other core vendors include:

• Photography by Jonathan Kohlwey Photography

• Floral by The Stalk Market

• Ceremony music by Matt Brown

• Reception music by Momentum Audio Services

• Venue and Catering by Granby Ranch

Madison and Colin - Granby Ranch Wedding Film

Weddings at ski resorts in Colorado are one of the absolute highlights of my job, and Granby Ranch may just be one of the best hidden gems in the entire state! There are a ton of amazing views from ski areas, whether it’s Keystone’s view out over lake Dillon, Vail’s view of the Holy Cross Wilderness, or Aspen’s view of Snowmass Mountain, but the view of the continental divide from Granby Ranch’s wedding deck may just be my favorite vista of any ceremony site in the state!

Maddie and Colin’s ceremony took place on top of the mountain, complete with getting dressed in the resort’s mountaintop yurt, and a chairlift exit from the mountaintop after their ceremony. The reception was in a beautiful tent at the base of the mountain, beautifully designed by the incredibly talented TeNeil Hartley from TeNeil Hartley Events. Our personal favorite detail was the roaming beverage burro during the reception!

The whole day was an absolute blast, and Maddie and Colin were so much fun to work with! They had such incredible chemistry on camera, that it produced an absolutely wonderful wedding film! We’re so grateful to have gotten to be a part of this day, and to have gotten to capture this stunning Colorado mountain wedding!

Huge thanks again to TeNeil Hartley Events, and our photographer counterparts for the day Tayler Carlisle Photography!

Yufan and Sunny - Denver Botanic Gardens Wedding Film

As a wedding videographer, you just can’t ask for more than this wedding offered. Yufan and Sunny’s wedding was a magical blending of an awesome couple, in an awesome place, with an awesome vendor team!

It’s been a few years since we’ve gotten to shoot at Denver Botanic Gardens, and every time we’re there, it simply takes my breath away. This wedding was extra amazing, because the reception was held on the balcony in Marnie’s Pavilion, the gardens’ orchid conservatory. The tropical plants, water features and iconic Midcentury Modern architecture make it one of the coolest reception locations we’ve ever gotten to shoot in! The crew from Isabelle Kline Design did an awesome job with all of the décor, and did an amazing job of rolling with the punches when the skies opened up and it started pouring rain!

Yufan and Sunny, it was such a joy capturing your wedding, and getting to spend such a wonderful chunk of time wandering around the gardens in the drizzling rain to capture couples footage! Thanks for letting us be a part of your day!

Hayley and Keith - Garden of the Gods Wedding Film

As I’ve written in other blog posts, the single best thing to come out of the 2020 wedding season was the rise of micro-weddings. While the reasons for downsizing throughout the past year have been unfortunate, the trade off has been small intimate weddings, with just couples’ closest loved ones. While it’s quite different from the big party atmosphere of larger weddings, it’s a totally different type of amazing to get to capture the quieter, more tender moments that simply fall by the wayside at larger weddings. Hayley and Keith’s wedding day was packed with wonderful little moments between the couple and their family, and I just love the tone it gave they helped give this video.

For a wedding filmmaker, the other awesome side effect of small weddings is a lot of schedule flexibility, which in turn usually means tons of time for AWESOME couples footage! Garden of the Gods is one of the most iconic Colorado landmarks, but getting to a lot of the most amazing spots takes time to hike or patience to wait for parking to open up. I am so grateful that Hayley and Keith were willing to take on both of these hurdles, because this wedding some of my favorite portrait moments we’ve ever captured for a wedding video. The footage really embodies everything that makes Garden of the Gods so amazing: sweeping vistas in the shadow of Pike’s Peak, and dramatic sandstone pillars, all with such an amazing, fun, joyful couple at the heart of it.

The final element that made this day special was that we got to stream the couples’ wedding ceremony for them, ensuring that although only a handful of people were able to attend in person, loved ones around the country were able to join in and watch live. Wedding live streaming has really come into its own in the past year, and it provides such an amazing added sense of community, especially to smaller weddings like this one.

Hayley and Keith, thank you so much for allowing us to be a part of your wedding day. We’re so blessed to be able to get to capture so much joy and emotion!

Also, huge thanks to Arianne at Ama Photography for her help and patience as our photo counterpart for the day, and to all the amazing folks at Garden of the Gods Club!

Wedding Styled Shoot featuring dogs from MAMCO Dog Rescue

This past spring I was approached by the amazing Meghan at MAG events with an opportunity to be a part of something truly special: a high concept wedding styled shoot structured as a promotional partnership with Moms and Mutts dog rescue, a Colorado based dog rescue specializing in pregnant and nursing dogs with their litters. It was such an amazing opportunity to show that weddings have the potential to be something bigger, beyond just the joining of couple. They are opportunities to bring entire communities together to help rally around causes near and dear to the couples hearts. This sort of activist wedding is one of the trends I’m most excited to see on the rise, and one of the ones that I’m most excited to start seeing in the wild!

Beyond the amazing aspirations for this styled shoot though, it also presented an opportunity for something uniquely fun: A wedding shoot with puppies! We had two amazing couples to work with for the shoot, Jake and Tabitha, and Hanna and Corie. This meant we got to have not one, not two, but THREE gorgeous wedding dresses to capture, and two sets of amazing opportunities for poses with the dogs, including one of my all time favorite wedding film moments: a couple seated on a couch trying to juggle 9 puppies at once! The fun and goofiness of the dogs (including puppies going to town on specially made dog wedding cakes) was such a great counterpoint to the elegant boho aesthetic of the decor, cake and florals. I could literally write paragraphs about all of the incredible details MAG Events put into the day, but I’ll let the videos above do the talking!

Meghan and her team truly pulled together a dream team of vendors for the shoot, and the results were spectacular. I want to name and highlight every single vendors work, because this shoot truly was a labor of love. Please go check out each of their websites!

• Photography by Zara Ashby Photography

• Dresses by Impressed by the Dress

• Cake by Sara McElroy

• Watercolors by Kellie Fox

• Calligraphy by Letters by Ivey

• Donuts by Happy Hour Donuts

• Flowers by Cosette’s Creations

• Makeup by Leanne Marie Glamour Studio

• Arch and Lounge rentals by The Borrowing Bride

• Party Rentals by Event Rents

• Venue by The Hearth House

• Coffee by Legends Coffee Co (also one of our amazing models!)

• Jewelry by The Craft Hippie Gypsy

And above all: Planning by MAG Events! Thank you so much for allowing me to be a part of this amazing day!

Erin and Austin - Breckenridge Colorado Elopement

Erin and Austin reached out to me in November of 2019 with their plan for a micro-wedding in Breckenridge, not knowing that Covid closures and restrictions would force them to downsize their already small wedding even further. Their guest list shrunk from around 15 down to just 2, the bride’s sister moved from maid of honor to officiant, and physical presence changed to notes from loved ones read aloud during the ceremony.

In spite of these punches, the day was still an absolute dream. Any couple who books a winter wedding in Breck is hoping for one thing: snow! The weather did not disappoint. Clouds rolled in, snowflakes fell, and the walk to the ceremony site at Sawmill Reservoir became a trek through nearly a foot of fresh powder! The resulting wedding was quiet and wonderfully intimate in a way only elopements can be, and the resulting video is among our favorite videos we’ve ever produced.

Thank you Erin and Austin, for rolling with the punches, dealing with snow and cold for the sake of photos and video, and above all for trusting us to be the eyes for your guests who couldn’t be present in person!

Matt and Bailey - Vail Wedding Film

When I was first talking to Bailey about what she wanted from her wedding video, she told me “I love the footage you guys get, but Matt and I aren’t really the most romantic people. We want our video to be about the guests, and about the party. We want it to focus on people having FUN!!”

When we sat down to edit, we really took this challenge to heart, and the result is one of the most unique wedding film edits we’ve ever done! We try to keep our style pretty consistent, so that couples who hire us know what they’re getting, but it’s always fun to have a chance to totally flip the script and do something different, and I’m so pleased with the result!

The setting for the party at the core of this video was a tent in in the yard at Larkspur in Vail, Colorado. The amazing crew at We Tie the Knots decked the reception out with some of the most incredible decoration we’ve ever gotten to shoot, punctuated with incredible floral arrangements from Cori Cook Floral Design, and amazing live music from the Great Family Reunion Band.

Becca & Matt - Mountaintop Elopement Wedding

When Becca and Matt were faced with cancelling their original wedding due to Covid-19, they decided to go way outside the box. They embraced one of their greatest passions and eloped on top of one of Colorado’s 14ers, complete with full wedding attire, flowers, a dog of honor, and even a bottle of champagne for a mountaintop toast!

I had originally been hired to shoot Becca and Matt’s full wedding, and when they made this dramatic change of venue, they reached out taking a shot in the dark to see if I’d be interested in capturing the whole adventure, not knowing that a 14er elopement had been a dream of mine ever since I first started shooting weddings!

The couple chose a peak and we found a date in early September that worked for everyone involved, only to have the climb nearly cancelled due to an early season blizzard that covered large areas of Colorado in feet of snow. We all decided to go for it anyway, not knowing during our 5 hour drive to Lake City if the original peak, or any of their fallback ideas, would even be climbable. Even as we set out on the trail before dawn, we didn’t know for certain if we’d be able to summit, but what we were greeted with as the sun rose was one of the most pristine climbing days I’ve ever experienced. There was just enough snow to add amazing contrast to the already stunning peak, but not enough to make it dangerous to climb. The couple had the summit almost entirely to themselves for their ceremony, and as word spread among the rest of the people climbing that day, they were greeted by a unconventional receiving line of congratulations the entire hike back down.

The end result is one of the absolute high points of my entire professional career. It may not have been Becca and Matt’s original plans, but in it’s own way, it wound up being a dream wedding. Being able to capture their love in such a intimate, unique setting was indescribably wonderful, and being able to help make something unique and beautiful out of such an unfortunate situation was one of the brightest spots in such a difficult year. Words can’t really express how grateful I am to have been a part of this.

Becca and Matt, thank you for bringing me along on this adventure with you, and giving me the opportunity to capture your unique, amazing wedding. I can’t wait to work with you again for your full celebration next year!

In addition, I want to do two huge shout outs. First to Jonah Frykholm, for jumping in on this madness without a second of hesitation, hauling gear, second shooting, driving the Jeep, and generally being the best assistant I could have possibly asked for. Second to Rachel Beckwith, the incredibly talented photographer who was crazy enough to also sign on to this wedding. Thank you both for being such an amazing team for the day!

Lauren + Caleb - Boulder Flower Farm Wedding - Featured on The Knot

Surprises! We’ve been to a lot of weddings that had surprises planned into the day — sometimes couples like to surprise their guests with something fun, exciting or sweet. Other times the bride or groom will have a surprise for their loved one, such as a musical performance, a sentimental gift (a dining set purchased in secret from the coffee shop where they had their first date), or a surprise guest appearance (Santa Claus anyone!?) However, we’ve never been to a wedding where the ENTIRE DAY was a complete surprise to both the bride and the groom, until we met Lauren & Caleb.

2020’s wedding season has been challenging, both for vendors and for couples. It’s been interesting to see how different people have adapted to the circumstances. Like so many couples this year, Lauren and Caleb had to make the difficult decision to discard their wedding plans and start from scratch. Faced with having to re-plan from the ground up, they instead relinquished full control of their wedding into the incredibly skilled hands of Brynn and the team at First Look Events, who put together one of the most unique and spectacular weddings we’ve ever had the opportunity to be a part of at Boulder Flower Farm. Every detail of the day was meticulously planned, from the massive floral ceremony backdrop created by Little Shop of Floral, to the intricate table setting and seven-course plated dinner by Footers Catering complete with adorable, decorative little notes that hinted at what the next course would be. What made it even more special was that the entire magical day — from start to finish — was a complete surprise to the couple. They had no idea what the schedule was, what the decorations would look like — nothing! It was so fresh and exciting to go along beside them and capture their joy and excitement as the day was slowly revealed to them moment by moment.

In addition to video coverage of the day, we also live streamed Lauren & Caleb’s wedding ceremony. Due to the circumstances, only about a dozen or so guests were in attendance in person at their wedding, but we were able to bring the ceremony live to over 80 viewers watching from 40 different places, including the groom’s brother who tuned in at 3:00 am in Saudi Arabia. We also worked with their families in the weeks leading up to the wedding, and edited a surprise video montage of pre-recorded toasts and well wishes from their family and friends who were unable to attend in person. In a year that’s been hard in so many ways, this was really a silver lining for us to be able to help provide services that share love, and bring people closer together when they can’t be together in person.

Lauren and Caleb, you were such a joy to work with. We really are so unimaginably grateful to have been a part of your wedding day and we wish you all the best in years to come!

In addition to the vendors we called out above, we’d also like to thank Lizzie and Marco Wedding Photographers, Colorado Party Rentals, Elite DJ, Faces by Liz, Handsome Love Calligraphy, and Beauty on Location Studio. Thanks for being such a great team of vendors to work with. You all helped to make this day a beautiful and magical as it was!

Lauren & Caleb’s day was featured on The Knot Real Weddings! See more photos of their day here!

COVID-19 Wedding Live Streaming Discounts

I shoot weddings because I love weddings. I love all of the energy, joy and enthusiasm. I love the love. The outbreak of Covid-19 has and continues to impact us all in many ways. These circumstances have forced many couples to postpone or otherwise drastically change the vision they had for their wedding. We know how much time, energy, meaning and passion get poured into the planning of a wedding, and it honestly breaks our hearts to see it all come so abruptly apart for so many people. We’ve spent much of the last week and half just trying to take it all in and figure out how to deal with it all — for us, for our industry, for other couples out there struggling with the exact same thing. We’ve racked our brains trying to figure out what we could do to help couples who are trying to navigate through this difficult time.

Outside of our wedding videography, I specialize in video live streaming, and we want to make this service available as an option to couples and planners as they adapt to this difficult situation. We feel that this could be a great solution for many couples and their loved ones in a time when they are unable to celebrate together in person. To this end, we’ve put together some discounted options for couples that include live streaming.

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Small Wedding Live Streaming Package

For couples who are opting to downsize their wedding or elope in the next 4-5 months, we have created a limited time, simplified version of our normal wedding package . It includes a short highlight film in addition to ceremony live streaming so that the loved ones who can't be in attendance physically can still be a part of the day. This package is intended to be for weddings of 20 people or less and includes: 

• Up to 5 hours of coverage

• 4-5 minute highlight video

• Live streaming of the ceremony

• Drone footage (if allowed by venue)

• Price $2000

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Streaming Add-on to Full Wedding Package

For couples who are still after a more complete wedding video package, we offer ceremony live streaming as an add-on to our standard package. We're discounting live streaming to $750, half off of our normal price, for any 2020 wedding. This includes a site visit prior to the wedding to make sure there is sufficient data bandwidth for streaming.

If you would like more information about streaming or our wedding packages, please feel free to reach out by email, phone, text, or through our contact page.

Krista + Zach - Keystone, CO Wedding Film

September 6, 2019 | Keystone, Colorado

Krista and Zach are two of the kindest, most laid back and sincere people we've ever met. Being around them is so refreshing. They have an amazing sense of calm and balance, taking everything in stride. Even when rainy weather threatened to derail the schedule of the day, these two embraced it. Every moment of their wedding day had so much intentionality, and so much presence of mind. It's very easy at weddings to get swept up in the emotions, all the events, the nerves, etc, and before you know it, the day is over. This day felt like time slowed, like it could breath. It felt balanced too -- with beautiful and personal details & decorations and in a breath-takingly beautiful landscape, but not so much that it distracted from the real significance of the day. The day was not only about Zach and Krista, but also about the joining of a family. Zach's sweet daughter Zoe read a beautiful statement during the ceremony that brings tears to our eyes every. single. time.

The ensuing evening was truly a blast and the perfect cap to the day-- the band Woodshed Red lit up the house with their energetic string group, and in the light of a blazing fireplace and under the warm glow of large woven wicker lanterns, this lovely community danced their hearts out.

Their wedding was one of the highlights of our year, and a truly inspirational story. We are so honored to have been a part of this day, and to help preserve its memory. Congrats Krista & Zach! We wish you guys all the best in your lives together!

Tiffany & Donovan - Crested Butte Wedding

Both of us have spent nearly our whole lives in Colorado. Andy grew up in Frisco, while Lauren grew up ten minutes away in Breckenridge. Both of our families traveled quite a bit, road tripping all over Colorado. We’ve each seen nearly ever corner of this beautiful and diverse state. That being said, neither of us had been to Crested Butte in many years (over a decade at least). So when we arrived there for Tiffany and Donovan’s wedding, it was almost like experiencing it all again for the first time, and we were absolutely BLOWN. AWAY. Colorado, as a whole, is so beautiful — but this was something special. It was spring, and the wildflowers were like nothing we’ve ever experienced in Colorado before. The open mountain sides were literally yellow and purple from miles away, just from the sheer quantity of flowers. The mountain ridges and open meadows are truly a site that takes your breath away. It definitely was giving me (Lauren) “The Sound of Music” vibes.

And it was on top of a mountain in the midst of all this that Tiffany and Donovan shared their intimate wedding celebration surrounded by their loved ones. We were enamored with this whole day and with these two and their wonderful family — beautiful inside and out. Congratulations Tiffany & Donovan! Thank you for inviting us into this special place to share the day with you. We wish you and your adorable family all the best!

Hannah & Reid - Spruce Mountain Ranch Wedding

Hannah and Reid’s wedding at Spruce Mountain Ranch was nothing short of magical. We met them for the first time the morning of their wedding, and as the day went on, we caught snippets here and there that shed light on who they are as people, and how their relationship came to be. Their romance is so classic it could be made into a movie — Hannah, a smart, beautiful woman who was studying to become a doctor, falls in love with Reid, a handsome, football jock. They meet one fateful day when Hannah was working as a waitress, and Reid came in for a bite of food, and their relationship went from there. But more than this sweet beginning, their story is inspirational in how real it feels — full of trials, challenges, successes and dreams. These two positively glowed with joy the entire day, and it really highlighted how weddings aren’t just a day in the life — they are a culmination of everything that couples have already been through, and the beginning of a new and exciting chapter.

Hannah and Reid, thank you for inviting us to be a part of your special day! We had so much fun spending the day with you and helping to capture all of these beautiful moments. We wish you the best in your lives ahead!

Danielle & Dom - Manor House Wedding

Danielle and Dom’s wedding at The Manor House, in Littleton, Colorado was a perfect way to open our summer 2019 season! This day was full of sunshine, laughter and beauty. As a venue, The Manor House is one of the best in Colorado, in our opinions. It somehow manages to capture snippets of everything someone might want from a wedding: a stately, elegant mansion, sprawling natural landscape, and even a unique view of Denver’s downtown skyline. Situated alone on top of a grassy hill, the mansion provides stunning views of Colorado’s iconic Front Range landscape, just a stone’s throw from world-famous Red Rocks Amphitheater. We had a blast shooting all of these themes and vignettes throughout the day with Danielle and Dom, who could not have been more laid back and fun to work with. Their chemistry felt so natural, and they lit up being around each other. Danielle and Dom, thank you for inviting us to share this big day with you and your adorable son.

We also couldn’t write this post without giving a shout out to the incredible photographer, Nate Shepard, who worked alongside us capturing the day in still images. If you look up the word “enthusiasm” in a dictionary, you will probably see his name there. We had a blast working with Nate, and although this was our first time working with him, we have long admired his work. His photographs are some of the best we’ve ever seen, and it was truly an honor to get to work with him.

Rachel & Luke - Wedding Highlights

Today we are excited to share Rachel and Luke’s wedding highlight film! Their romantic January wedding at Brookside Gardens Event Center in Berthoud, CO was a true labor of love. It was first and foremost a celebration of Rachel and Luke’s relationship and love for one another. Everything about the day had a personal touch that accentuated this truth — from the heartfelt notes that R&L wrote each other before the ceremony, to all of the carefully thought out decor, to the fact that Luke’s father officiated their wedding ceremony. Throughout the day, there was so much joy that radiated from all of their loved ones. They were truly one of the kindest groups of people that we’ve ever been around, and after the day was over, we left feeling a bit sad that we weren’t a part of their family too!

One of the most impressive and humbling elements of the day were all of the details that went into the actual event. Rachel’s amazing and talented sister, Cat is no stranger to weddings, and runs her own custom stationary business, Beautifully Noted. She poured countless hours into planning and creating a dream wedding for her beloved sister, from the custom invitation suite, to the table settings, wedding programs, handmade place cards, vow booklets, even dress tags in the bridal suite (I’m sure there were even more things that I’m forgetting!) No detail was too minor to escape her touch, and all turned out so lovely. We were really touched by this sweet expression of love.

Rachel and Luke, congratulations on your wedding together! Thank you for the opportunity to share in and help capture this special day. We wish you all the best!

Beth & Devin - Wedding Highlights

It's hard to believe that we're here writing the blog post for our last 2018 wedding, but here it is -- we made it through another wedding season! It all was nothing short of amazing, and Beth and Devin's wedding was the perfect way to finish out the year. 

On a bright, early December morning, we arrived at the Barn at Evergreen Memorial Park and spent the next hour or so eagerly exploring and getting scenery shots. What a unique and special venue this is -- from the enormous stained glass windows, to the cheery string lights that adorned the entire room, to the open loft above the event space below, we quickly fell in love with this old rustic barn. And beyond that, Beth and Devin brought so many of their own personal touches to the wedding itself, including a variety of vintage decor and multiple fun game opportunities planned throughout the day and evening (scavenger hunts and TV theme song quizzes anyone?). 

Their wedding was the perfect mixture of light-hearted celebration, intentionality, meaning and gratitude. The paths that brought them together and have formed their love story are nothing short of providence. Even spending just a single day with these two and their close family and friends filled our own hearts with joy. It was so special to witness their two families come together. We are incredibly grateful to have had the privilege of capturing their wedding day. Beth and Devin, thank you so much for everything! We wish you and your beautiful family all the best! 

We also want to give a special shout-out to Alix Bruson of Alix Bruson Films for joining us on this wedding. She is also a wedding videographer here in Colorado and does AMAZING work that we really admire. We don't often get the opportunity to shoot with other videographers, so it was a special treat to get to spend a day doing what we all love. Thanks for all your help and hard work! Also big thanks to Autumn Cutaia Photography for all your help and camaraderie! It's always a blast getting to shoot with you!

Stephanie & Zach - Wedding Highlights

Today we are incredibly excited to share Stephanie and Zach’s wedding highlight film! Their mountain wedding on top of Steamboat Resort was perfectly timed with the spectacular fall aspen colors that Colorado is famous for. Add in some sunny weather, and you get one gloriously beautiful wedding day. We basically ran around all day with ridiculous smiles on our faces, so excited by the footage we were getting. This day yielded one of our favorite sunset sessions of all time.

Stephanie and Zach were so easy and wonderful to work with! From the moment they saw each other during the first look, only had eyes for each other the whole rest of the day. During their ceremony, Stephanie and Zach shared hand-written vows with each other, and oh man did they pull at our heartstrings! These vows seemed like they could have been taken from an epic romance movie — by pure coincidence, both ended with the same line. It does not get sweeter than that!

This wedding was a fantastic way to wrap up our summer 2018 season, and we had such a good time all day! (I mean, give us a camera, amazing people and put us on top of a mountain? We were in heaven!) Thank you Stephanie and Zach for allowing us to be such an important part of your big day! It means the world to us to get to work with couples like you, and we wish you guys all the best in the years to come!

Cooky & Darren - Wedding Highlights

I’ve mentioned my “wedding venue bucket list” in a few other blog posts when I’ve gotten to check off venues I’ve dreamed of shooting at. There are few venues that were higher on that list than the top of Keystone Ski Area. I grew up 15 minutes from Keystone, and have so many wonderful memories there. Even with all of the awesome days and nights of skiing, getting to shoot Cooky and Darren’s wedding on to of Dercum Mountain was one of the most fun and memorable days I’ve ever had up there!

I simply don’t have the words to describe how amazing this whole day was. Cooky and Darren are both such warm, open, amazing people, and their love for each other is so genuine. Their vows make me choke up a little bit every time I hear them, even after listening to them dozens of times as I edited. It was such an honor to get to spend the day around this beautiful couple, in this beautiful setting. Weddings like Cooky and Darren’s are what makes shooting weddings so rewarding!

Huge thanks to the planning crew from Sweetly Paired, Megan Wynn Photography, and all of the folks from Keystone Resort’s Wedding Team, and the biggest thanks of all to Cooky and Darren! We wish you two all the best in your lives together!