Sadie & Martin

A few months ago, I remember having a really horrible day. One of those days where everything went wrong. At the end of my work day, I had about ten minutes left before I could go and I decided that I'd check out the new videos on Aquavivus to brighten my day a little. I somehow discovered Aquavivus just before our wedding - and bursted with admiration. I could watch their videos all day, every day if I could. This particular day though, I watched an engagement shoot - and was moved to tears (as I often am with their videos). But more importantly, I had an "AHA" moment.  (I didn't actually know it was an AHA moment until about a week later when I watched Amber Rae's TED talk) In this moment though, I realized that I would absolutely LOVE to make similar videos to theirs for the rest of my life. I've put together a few videos before - one of our wedding day and a few of our trips away, and I love
e v e r y thing about it - documenting a special memory by stringing clips together and adding the perfect music/song. It had just never clicked in my mind as a possibility to grow into something- possibly a career at some point. Since my aha moment, I've been researching and slowly letting people in on my secret new-dream-job. I obviously don't have as much as experience or wonderful equipment like Aquavivus does...so I'm slowly building up my experience and researching equipment and any other knowledge/resources I can get my hands on.

Anyway, Peter's friend and work colleague, Sadie, hired Peter to photograph their wedding. He did a pre-wedding shoot with them, and the pictures are gorgeous. I'm sure it helped a little that she's a model, and it's obvious that Martin is head over heels about her - making their pictures (and video) stunning. Peter offered them my video service for the wedding as a way for me to build my experience, and they said yes.

It turned out to be the biggest pleasure for me to be Peter's second shooter for their wedding, AND to have the opportunity to act as a fly on the wall and capture their special day on video. You could feel the love - more than I've ever felt it before, with Sadie and Martin. I was in complete awe at their love just radiating for each other and also by how gorgeous their day turned out to be. The planning was perfect, the decorations were incredible, the cakes, the people - everything was just perfect! Sadie and Martin are such an enchanting couple, I couldn't have been any happier to be part of their day and put this video together for them.