San Antonio Wedding Reception | "Until the Final Flicker of Life's Embers" - Cara & Josh

 

Enjoy the final scenes from Cara & Josh's film of their spring 2011 wedding, full of burlap, lace, handmade tortillas, twinkling stars, and lively dancing.

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We do love shooting San Antonio wedding videos.  There's just something about a San Antonio wedding. In Texas, if Dallas is known for being formal, and Austin for being funky, then San Antonio is known for being spirited.

Cara and Josh, thank you for having Mason Jar Films as your wedding videographer team.  We trust that the spirit of San Antonio will shine forth in your wedding video.

p.s. All Texas weddings, no matter the location, are great!

Ceremony: Alamo Heights Presbyterian
Photographer: David Sixt
Reception Entertainment: Blind Date
Rehearsal Dinner: Paloma Blanca Mexican Cuisine

New Orleans Wedding | "Look at You, Baby!" - Celeste & Michael

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Trip no further, pretty sweeting,

Journeys end in lovers meeting.

-from Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"

While many will choose to untie their lives with a destination wedding, sometimes, there's just nothing like coming home...literally.

As Celeste gathered with her bridesmaids at her house for some pre-ceremony champaign, Celeste's father, the only other man in the room, eased on over to me and pointed out that many of those in the wedding party knew Celeste since their first days of school at the Academy of the Sacred Heart, wherein the chapel, Celeste would be married 2 hours later.

After the rehearsal the night before, Celeste related to me how she had attended weekly chapel services in that very room for 13 years.  As the semesters ticked away, while her friends moved into different classrooms and wings of the campus, they would always come back to this one edifice, week after week.  Only her childhood home was a place of more consistent refuge.

Upon graduation, many of Celeste's friends went their separate ways. Celeste ventured to the University of Virginia, then to the LSU school of Law, then back to New Orleans to further her career.

Michael, from Lake Charles, followed a similar trajectory.  After attending the University of Virginia, he made stops in Dallas and Birmingham before the pull of home led him to settle in New Orleans.  Home is where the heart is!

With "home" being another character in their story, it was only fitting that the arc of the wedding day run through the locations that embody that sense of place.  From Celeste getting into her dress upstairs at her parents house, to walking down the aisle at the chapel in the academy, to taking her first dance with Michael in the backyard of her childhood home, there was a rooted-ness in family history throughout the day's events that few couples experience.

Celeste and Michael, thanks for inviting us to come home with you.  I trust that this clip from your wedding video will continue to bring you back there, time and time again.

Photographer: Elizabeth Dondis Dress: Vera Wang, from Mimi Ceremony: Academy of the Sacred Heart Reception Entertainment: Sauce Band (from Austin!) Makeup: Tisa from Tisa's Beauty Bar Event Planning and Flora: Ted Viator, The Gardenaire Catering: Audubon Tea Room

Houston Wedding Video | Montesito Ranch - Sarah & Colby

I don't know if you've heard, but here in Texas, it's kinda dry. Ok, that may be the understatement of the year. It's tinderbox dust bowl drought spittin' cotton kinda dry.

At about 2 p.m. Saturday, I stood on the porch of the Montesito ranch, listening to Jan, the lady of the ranch and mother of the bride. "You see those trees off in the distance? I had to explain to some of our northern visitors that they aren't turning orange because autumn has come."

I ventured on down to the stables to chat with the foreman Carlos as he washed off the Polaris for Sarah and Colby's getaway.  "Are those storm clouds rolling in,"  I asked.  "I hope so," he responded without blinking an eye.

You know it's dire when the foreman doesn't mind it raining on his boss' daughter's outdoor wedding, scheduled to begin in about an hour.  Perhaps he was just wishing good luck upon the couple as the superstition purports.

Either way, he got his wish. 45 minutes before the wedding, shortly before guests were to arrive, I wouldn't say that the bottom fell out, but it wasn't holding on by more than a few threads.

Rather than putting a damper on things, the rain seemed to bring life to the setting, much like it does with flora and fauna in a desert-scape that hasn't seen precipitation in months.  Smiling guests began to arrive in their Sunday finest; then out walked a band of handsome, polished soldiers and a coterie of beautiful bridesmaids...and then last, but not least, a radiant bride look resplendent in her unique wedding dress.

As the ceremony progressed, the sun peeked through the clouds with magic hour hues, casting a golden glow under the tent across all the beautiful creation as if God himself wanted to spotlight his handiwork and let everyone see that it is good.

And good only got better from there on out.

Sarah and Colby, thanks for having us out to film your wedding video.  We look forward to telling your story, and letting it act as water and life to others.

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Thanks for choosing us to be your Houston wedding videographer!

Escondido Golf & Lake Club | Autumn Sunset Wedding - Whitney & Geoff

October 1st marked the first day in about the last 130 in which the high temperature didn't reach 90 degrees.  With a hint of autumn in the air, we had the privilege of shooting the wedding video for Whitney & Geoff.   Whitney has fantastic tastes (how many brides do you know that take a designer dress and add their own design touches?  Well, that's what Whitney did, and  her dress was a gauzy silk & tulle dream, making her appear to be floating as she danced.... AMAZING

As Event Designer Gina Whittington from CLINK said before the day arrived, this wedding is going to be "EPIC!!!"

That's a good starting point for describing this Austin wedding.

Whitney and Geoff, Thanks for choosing us to be your Austin Wedding Videographer.

-kourtney amelia

Event Planners and Designers: Tanya Posavatz and Gina Whittington, CLINK Events
Ceremony/Reception, and Catering: Escondido
Photography: Meredith Davenport of Christian Oth Studio
Florist: Merveille
Bakery: The Cake Plate
Rentals: Marquee Rents
Linens/Chargers: BBJ Linens
Lighting: ILIOS
Hair Stylist: Henry DeLaPaz
Make Up Artist: Kiss and Makeup
Officiant: Pastor John Stennfield
Ceremony Music: Lake Austin Strings
DJ: Groove Labs
Reception Entertainment: The Spazmatics
Band Sound: Emerald Entertainment
Transportation: Transportation Consultants
Specialty Decor: Townsley Designs
Fireworks: Wolf Stuntworks

Sonoma California Vineyard Wedding - Michelle + Jens

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Recently, I had the pleasure of flying into San Francisco and driving up to Sonoma to create the wedding video of Michelle and Jens.

If you recognize Michelle from past work, you are quite observant. Along with her sister Marianne, Michelle produced this tribute film for their mother's birthday party in 2007.  That was my first trip to the Bay Area, and I've longed for their summers ever since.

Michelle and Jens' Sonoma wedding was held at their family home in wine country, and you couldn't have asked for prettier surroundings and more perfect weather to celebrate with family and friends.  Michelle's bridesmaids carried tropical pink parasols that matched their wedding bouquets as they posed for poolside pictures, and to our great surprise, all of the guests had their own pink umbrella during the outdoor wedding ceremony.  It made for such a breathtaking moment as they all stood with their parasols when Michelle walked down the aisle with her proud "father of the bride."

Guests came from as far away as Germany, England, France, Peru, and all parts throughout the United States.  The reception food, wine, and music was eclectic to say the least.  In Bavaria, it is a wedding tradition to give a fruit tree as a gift to a couple to represent hope for a life of fruitfulness in children, health and wealth.  Jens' father sweetly gifted a tree to Michelle and Jens at their wedding reception. 

Michelle and Jens', thanks for choosing me as your Sonoma wedding videographer, inviting me in once again to document the spirit and richness of your family experience.

jones