Jessica and Matthew

Jessica & Matthew in Dallas Event Video

Wedding Reception at Plano Centre

Jessica used to be Paw Paw’s little girl, but Matthew stole her heart away. Jessica married Matthew on a beautiful summer day in July. Their wedding reception was held at Plano Centre. Paw Paw’s serenade for his little girl, was a precious highlight of the event.

The reception began with the newlyweds fist-pumping their way into the Plano Centre. Family and friends greeted them with enthusiastic applause. The venue looked particularly charming for Jessica and Matthew celebration. White tablecloths covered the tables and large satin bows held white chair covers in place. Large arrangements of mixed bouquets decorated the front tables. Delicious hors d’oeuvres waited on a buffet.

The bride was lovely in her strapless ball gown with a sweetheart neckline. The elegant beaded bodice topped a many-layered tulle skirt. Her fingertip-length tulle veil was trimmed in pearls and featured a scalloped edge. She carried a colorful bouquet of mixed flowers which matched the floral arrangements on the tables. Her bridesmaids wore long strapless dresses in bright yellow, which matched the accessories for the groomsmen’s tuxes.

After their entry, Jessica and Matthew sat down across from Paw Paw in the middle of the dance floor. Paw Paw introduced himself to the crowd, strummed a few chords and then sang a touching serenade called “Paw Paw’s Girl” – a touching tribute he’d written about their relationship.

Soon, the dance floor hosted the couple’s first dance and their dances with their parents. As the evening progressed, the floor stayed busy with dancing of all kinds, from romantic slow dances, to line-dancing – even the Cotton-eyed-Joe.

The multi-tiered wedding cake, all in white, had a companion groom’s cake dedicated to the Dallas Cowboys. After toasting with champagne, the bride tossed her bouquet to an eager group of single women. If the bouquet tossing tradition is true, some of the single ladies might have to wait quite a while for their wedding day. It will be some time before the young girl who caught the bouquet will be heading down the aisle. Matthew used a football to assist him in tossing the garter.

At the end of the evening, the couple escaped through a storm of bubbles to a white vintage car waiting to take them into their new life.

Behind the Scenes with LeniCam Video Productions

Sometimes producing a great video requires some detective work and quick thinking. Paw Paw planned to perform his serenade without any amplification. Our videographer realized this might be fine for the performance, but on the video the song would get lost in the ambient noise. So we pulled out one of our microphones. The song came out perfect and every word of it can be enjoyed without distraction.

This was a one-camera shoot. It required careful shooting on the part of our videographerand very detailed editing by our producer to give it the smooth look of the completed video. That’s the benefit of using a professional videographer to capture your wedding day memories.

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Thoughtful Bride Honors Many Traditions at Country Club Wedding

Leanna and Tim – Stonebriar Country Club in Frisco Texas Captured by Wedding Videographer for Dallas TX

Leanna wasn’t taking any chances on her wedding day.  From pinning something old on her petticoat to a sixpence taped on her shoe, she took all the proper bridal precautions.  Then after a final application of lip gloss, she marched right out and married Tim at Stonebriar Country Club in Frisco.

Leanna was dazzling on her wedding day in a bright-white strapless gown with a sweetheart neckline.  The bodice was covered in crystal beads sewn into a floral lace pattern and the A-line skirt was a series of vertical organza ruffles.  Even her fingertip veil was edged in crystals.  Still, her smile was her most beautiful accoutrement.

As the wedding party made their way into the ceremony, the ring bearer appeared to be exasperated by the whole process.  He stomped down the aisle with his arms crossed and the ring pillow shoved to the side.  He was followed down the aisle by a flower girl who shared none of his angst.  She almost floated down the aisle with joy.

Leanna and Tim wrote their vows for one another, which were both meaningful and humorous.  The touching ceremony included the lighting of a unity candle. After announcing the couple man and wife, the officiant got in on the humor, declaring them Mr. and Mrs. Little Timothy Navin when tall broad-shouldered groom was anything but little.

It was easy to see that Leanna had put a lot of thought into the celebration.  Along with her pre-wedding ministrations, the programs were “Wedding Activity Books” and the guests located their table for the reception with personalized luggage tags.

It was also easy to see this couple was devoted to fun.  The wedding cake topper was bride and groom figurines carrying signs.  The groom’s sign said, “Mr. Right,” while the bride’s sign declared she was “Mrs. Always Right.”  Instead of the standard tiered wedding cake, they served a table full of decorated one-layer cakes.  When the couple cut their cake the ritual almost turned into a food fight.  Another laughter-filled moment of the day was the Newlywed Shoe Game where both spouse admitted that Leanna made the first move.

The good times continued through the garter toss.  Little Timothy tossed the garter onto a ledge which hid the indirect lighting overhead.  Even Little Timothy couldn’t reach it.  Not to worry – the ever-prepared bride just happened to have a second garter.

As the guests said farewell with bubbles, the bride and groom played one more prank.  Tim’s mother drove up in her SUV and when they drove away, Mom and bride were in the front seat, while Tim pouted in the back seat.

Behind the Scenes with LeniCam Video Productions        

Leanna and Tim chose our wedding package with two videographers.  That allows us to record the wedding from two different perspectives and weave them together at our studio through editing and mixing.  In this highlight film, we also wove their vows together to show the essence of their vows without taking time to reproduce the entire exchange.  The camera which provided the close-ups was actually a proprietary remote control camera.  It sat near the front, outside  of the line of sight and without the movements of a cameraman to distract from the ceremony.

Another trick we’ve learned in all these years of wedding videography is that the audio portion of a wedding is as important as what you see.  So we put a lapel microphone on the groom.  This trick helped up pick up the heart-warming and funny-bone tickling vows.  We also got to listen is as the bride and groom serenaded one another in the first dance.

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Janai and Jerry by Wedding Videographers Dallas TX

No Peeking at Their First Look – Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano

The match was made in heaven, but they found each other through online dating.  Janai and Jerry were married at in the chapel at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano.

Janai likes purple, so she applied it with a liberal brushstroke to her wedding day.  Purple shoes, purple flowers – even a purple bow on her wedding cake.  Her beautiful A-line gown was white.  The ornately beaded strapless bodice with sweetheart neckline set off her sparkly accessories: a tiara, a crystal- edged veil, chandelier-styled crystal earrings and a necklace with a heart-shaped diamond pendant.  The elaborate beading continued on the skirt of the dress.  The bride carried a bouquet of mixed flowers in a myriad of purple hues and those purple shoes were high-heeled pumps with peek-a-boo toes and huge bows.

The couple wanted to share a little time together before the ceremony, but they didn’t want to tempt fate by ignoring old wedding traditions, so instead of a First Look, they held hands through a partially closed door and chatted for a while.  Jerry was more than pleased when he saw his pretty bride come down the aisle.  To symbolize the new life they were beginning, the couple lit a unity candle as a part of their ceremony.

Their reception was held a few feet away in a lovely sun-filled alcove of the church.  Each of the four tiers of their cake was decorated in a different motif and on top was a huge purple bow decorated with pearls.  When the couple cut the cake, they each took an obligatory bite, but what interested them the most was the icing.

Several single women lined up to vie for the bouquet Janai tossed.  Either all the men were already married or they were afraid to tempt fate, because only a couple of young fellows, decades away from their own weddings, were interested in catching the garter.  As the couple escaped the festivities, their guests bid them farewell with bubbles.

Behind the Scenes with LeniCam Video Productions

The actual filming of Janai and Jerry’s wedding was only a very small part of what went into the production of their video.  We spent time with Janai before the wedding so we would understand her vision for her big day, the logistics of the events and what equipment we’d need.  When it was time to go to their wedding, we loaded with all the equipment we needed into our vehicles, with back-up and extras of everything.  Then we had to be unload and set up at Prestonwood.  When filming was over, we had to put everything back into our vehicle and return it to the studio.

At ourstudio, we downloaded all the audio and video files we’d recorded at the wedding, and then we deleted everything from equipment’s memory for our next event.  We recharged every piece of equipment that was rechargeable and tested the batteries of the rest.  Only then did we put the equipment away or load it for the next event.

The next bit was the most tedious.  We watched and listened to everything we’d recorded.  We build redundancy into our filming and recording, because we want options.  Only after we knew what we had could we begin editing and mixing the material to create a unique video.  This process requires days and days of work over several weeks.

The result of this process was our demo for Janai and Jerry.  They watched the demo and gave us their edits.  This part of the process can take several passes as we work to produce the video exactly the way the couple wants it.  In this case we were the sniffle removers.  Jerry had gotten sick the day before and felt awful.  He sounded worse and our wireless microphone captured every cough and sniffle.  At the request of the couple we spent a lot of time removing every single cough and sniffle possible.  We tell our couples that no matter what happens on their wedding day – good or bad – they are going to love their wedding video.  When we were through with our edit, just as we promised, the coughs and sniffles were barely noticeable and the couple was very happy.

Finally, we produced the five videos with customized packaging and menus.  Janai and Jerry loved the final product.  Then we loaded this highlight video onto our website for friends and family to view and download.  Our final step was to put all the material on our secure server – just in case.

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Reagan and Miles – Wedding Videography Dallas TX at Brown Trail Church of Christ in Bedford

Ever since Miles met Reagan at church, he knew she was the one.  The couple was married at the Brown Trail Church of Christ in Bedford and captured for Wedding Videography Dallas TX.

Reagan used a classroom of the church for her bride’s room. There she put on the beautiful gown and veil which transformed her into a vision of luminous white tulle.  Her sleeveless gown with a sweetheart neckline featured appliquéd roses and lace at the bottom of the full skirt.  Lace also decorated her fingertip veil.

The sanctuary of the church was transformed into a dramatic wedding venue with mutli-armed wrought-iron candelabra on the stage and wrought-iron candle holders on each pew.  The flickering flames inside the column candles added an air of romance to the scene.  The Church of Christ has a glorious tradition of choral music and the ceremony was graced by an acapella choir.  At the end of the ceremony the congregation sang a blessing.

The reception was a culinary delight.  Each layer of the lovely muli-tiered wedding cake was decorated with a different motif.  The top of the cake was graced with a porcelain bride and groom.  The groom’s cake was a milk chocolate masterpiece, drizzled with dark chocolate and decorated with chocolate-dipped strawberries.  The guests were also treated to a buffet meal which ended with a bonanza of homemade sweets.

It was impossible to miss the fact that Reagan and Miles were Aggies.  In fact, they had a whole table devoted to Aggie traditions.  Then during the garter toss, he wrapped the lacy item around an Aggie football and hiked it to the single guys.  A groomsman grabbed the ball out of the air before he remembered that the tradition suggested he’d be the next groom, a prospect he wasn’t thrilled about.

As the sun set, Reagan and Morgan said their farewells beneath a shower of pink rose petals.  Then they hopped into their car and roared away into their future.

Behind the Scenes with LeniCam Video Productions 

A highlight of Reagan and Morgan’s wedding was the magnificent choral music sung by live vocalists.  One of the songs they sang was the haunting “Sunrise, Sunset” from the musical Fiddler on the Roof.   LeniCam’s producer wove the lovely song into the fabric of the entire video.

As important as it was to record the audio and video live, what happened with the footage in our studio was even more critical to the final product and required more time than it did to record the wedding.  Our producer takes all the audio and video footage and in the weeks after the wedding, painstakingly mixed and edited it,frame by frame, just like they do in Hollywood.  The result is a unique creation which Reagan and Morgan will cherish throughout their marriage.

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Melissa and Brian  at Paradise Cove on Lake Grapevine in Wedding Videos for Dallas TX

With a name like Paradise Cove, you’d expect a venue to be heavenly.  Add fireworks and you’ve got a very spectacular wedding.  Melissa and Brian were married at Paradise Cove in Southlake.

The bride and groom began their day with a private First Look.  Melissa was stunning in her lace gown glistening with crystals.  The Queen Anne neckline with cap sleeves showcased an intricate crystal necklace with matching earrings.  The gown opened to a keyhole in back.  Brian couldn’t resist dipping his bride into a kiss.

The open air chapel surrounded by a natural landscape created a beautiful backdrop for their touching ceremony.  A breeze lifted Melissa lace-trimmed veil and frolicked among bushes of red roses, but nothing could distract the bride’s intense gaze from the face of her beloved.  An enthusiastic embrace sealed the vows.

After the ceremony, everyone moved to the Grand Hall for a fun-filled reception.  A small cake was used for the formal cake-cutting, because the guests had their choice of delicious-looking cupcakes in a variety of flavors.  Though the cake was small it provided plenty of icing for a little face painting.

The DJ kept the dance floor hopping and a huge patio was used for events like the bouquet and garter tosses.  When darkness settled, the bride and groom led their guests out to the patio for the highlight of the evening – a fireworks display.  Then the energetic couple took to the dance floor.  At the end of the night, the bride and groom escaped to their waiting limo and drove off into their future.

Behind the Scenes with LeniCam Video Productions

That little breeze during the ceremony, which lifted the bride’s veil and frolicked in the roses, could have also ruined the audio portion of Melissa and Brian’s video.  That’s the reason LeniCam used more than one audio feed to record the wedding.  Weput a mic on the officiant, put a lapel microphone on the groom and also used the microphones on our camera.  By editing and mixing these feeds with the video, we were able to minimize the whistling wind and capture the words of Melissa and Brian’s vows.

The gorgeous fireworks display was another portion of the video which required careful editing.  It was the most exciting part of the day and many things were happening at once.  Adjusting our lenses to capture both the scene on the dark patio and the bright fireworks in the distance required all the experience we’ve gathered over the years.  At the same time, we capture the groom’s comments, with the crowd’s appreciative exclamations and the explosions.  The results are a beautiful video Melissa and Brian will cherish all the days of their marriage.

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This is a quick edit of the bouquet toss with fireworks at Melissa and Brian’s wedding.