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Brooke and Eland – A Wedding in the Country

The chapel’s ceiling was a blue sky.  The floor a carpet of green grass.  Guests sat on hay bales, shading their eyes with fans.  Brooke and Eland were married on Brooke’s family farm outside Gainesville, Texas.

Brooke took great pains to comply with bridal traditions.  Her something old was her grandma’s diamond necklace.  For something new, she and her fiancé bought matching green cowboy boots. Stud earrings fulfilled the need for something blue.  In her boot was a penny from her father marked with the year she was born.  She looked lovely in her strapless, drop-waisted ball gown with a sweetheart neckline and ruffled skirt.

Since Green is Eland’s last name, Brooke chose the color green for her wedding.  Along with his green boots, Eland wore a bright green shirt.  The green grass was complimented by balls of green flowers hanging at the end of each row of hay bales.  In Brooke’s bouquet of calla lilies the foliage stood out green against the white flowers and her white dress.

With a nod to their farmland heritage Brooke and Eland participated in a knot tying ceremony during their vows.  Each of them took a length of rope and they tied the pieces together.  The minister explained the ropes represented the couple’s lives before the ceremony and that from now on, the ropes would act as one and could not be separated.

After a flurry of photographs everyone moseyed over to the reception where a pair of beautiful cakes waited.  The groom’s cake was chocolate and the wedding cake stood three layers tall.  Each layer of the wedding cake was covered in lacy patterns of white icing and calla lilies cascaded down the side.

The couple cut the first piece of their cake together.  When Brooke picked up the first piece to feed to Eland, a look of mischief crossed her face.  Eland realized he was in trouble, so he began to run.  The couple’s laughter assured everyone that the food fight was all in fun.  Soon the couple was dancing on the green lawn.

As the day drew to a close, Brooke and Eland ran through showers of birdseed tossed at them from their guests.  Then they climbed into a pick-up truck and rode off into the sunset.

Behind the Scenes with LeniCam Video Productions

We love outdoor weddings like Brooke and Eland’s, even if they require us to work a little harder.  We know all the lighting adjustments we’ll make during the filming and all the sound editing in the studio will result in a memorable wedding video.  And since outdoor venues are always more spread out than indoor venues, we also get a lot of good exercise.

At an indoor wedding, the lights may be too bright or too low, but once we’ve adjusted our cameras to compensate for the situation, we know we’ll have great footage.  At this outdoor wedding we were adjusting for the lighting all the time.  The sun was at one position when we set up our equipment, and when the ceremony started, it had moved.  Then there are segments where the bride and groom move from one place to another, passing through both open and shaded areas.  Our settings had to change as they moved from light to dark and then back into the light.  Faces can also be hard to capture in sunlight, but our many years of experience have taught us just how to get great quality shots, even in situations which seem impossible.

This outdoor wedding has many distracting noises recorded on the original footage, like traffic and animal noises.  One of the ways we overcame these was by putting a wireless microphone on the groom and the officiant.  The microphones on the cameras picked up the ambient noises.  By editing and mixing all the tracks we created a natural feel to the video while focusing on the words of the ceremony.

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Jaclyn and Blake’s Wedding and Reception at Home in Sanger, Texas 

The scene was all country.  Wooden benches set out in rows before a natural arbor of vines and flowers.  Immediately behind the arbor lay a glistening stock pond and in the distance white fences divided green pastures.  Jaclyn and Blake were married at the home of the bride’s parents in Sanger, Texas.

The beautiful bride in her lace covered wedding gown and her bridesmaids in deep eggplant one-shouldered dresses would have graced the aisle of any cathedral.  They looked particularly lovely walking among the trees of the expansive ranch.  A pair of flower-girls in handkerchief-styled dresses rounded out the bridal party.

The groomsmen wore white-button down shirts, blue jeans and boots.  The groom added a black cowboy hat and western-styled jacket to his ensemble.  A young ring-bearer wore the same thing as the groomsmen, but he topped it off with a straw cowboy hat.

The spring day was glorious with lots of sunshine and gentle breezes.  Jaclyn made a dramatic entrance in a vintage pick-up truck driven by her father. The couple vowed their love to one another and sealed the deal with a passionate kiss.  Then they hopped into the pickup and drove up to the house, where a large white marquee covered the patio outside Jaclyn’s parent’s house.  Beautiful horses frolicking in a nearby pen completed the perfect country western scene.

Lots of two-stepping mixed with lots of homemade pies made for a great evening.  Also on hand, for folks with a sweet tooth, was an elegant multi-tiered wedding cake topped with flowers and covered in a paisley design.  When the couple shared the first piece of their cake Blake tried to get a taste of Jaclyn’s fingers with his bite and ended up with icing and crumbs all around his grinning mouth.  Before the bride had her taste, she warned the smirking groom that he had better be nice.

When it was time for the garter toss, Jaclyn lifted her dress and showed off her custom made boots with her new initial – not the footwear you’d expect under her lacy gown.  Soon it was time for the bride and groom to make their departure, so they danced off into the dark and into their new life together.

Behind the Scenes with LeniCam Video Productions – Dallas Wedding Videographers

We love outdoor weddings, especially when the weather cooperates like it did on Jaclyn and Blake’s special day.  The bright Texas sun was one of the highlights of the ceremony, forcing us to compensate for its intensity – otherwise the bride would have been nothing but a white blur.  Later in the evening after the sun went down, we turned on the lights of our cameras and adjusted our lenses to capture faces in the low light.

One of the most charming things about this video is the banter between the bride and groom throughout the day.  The sight of them riding away from the ceremony in the pickup truck is absolutely bucolic, but being able to hear them complain about the bumps is delightful.

We Sweat the Small Stuff So You Don’t Have To

Here’s what Jaclyn’s mom had to say about our video on Wedding Wire.  “ My daughter was not sure she wanted a video of her wedding. I contacted John and went ahead and had him video the day. The finished product is great. The newlyweds are now so glad they have the video. The day to them was a blur. The video is a great reminder of all that happened and everyone that was there. John and his partner were very professional and captured the day in all its greatness.”