My style of Wedding videography could be called authentic candid. I was watching a YouTuber (David Dobrik) about 5 years ago, and I noticed that although none of his camera work was technically good, he had 20 million subscribers and everyone loved his videos. He basically recorded his friends’ reactions to things and surprised them with things, but what really drew me in was the authenticity of the people he was filming. Even when he would get celebrity guests, he’d film them with his 1080p Canon camera held at chest height while not looking through the viewfinder, so he could film them while talking to them. The shots were shaky, crooked, and out of focus, and the content was incredible.
Fast forward 5 years to 2025, and I’ve found that the things I love filming most during events like weddings are the funny in-between moments, the things people do candidly and authentically. Things that only be filmed at your wedding because it’s your people on your day and that’s what makes it unique and beautiful. Some of the most fun footage I’ve shot I have not posted in wedding videos because sometimes I felt it was professional enough. What I didn’t realize, though, was that the footage that “wasn’t professional enough” was sometimes the only parts of the day people wanted to see. I didn’t need to try and make someone’s wedding look like a fairy tale wedding film, I just needed to capture it as it was, get a few beauty / posed shots /grab some killer drone shots and then create something based on what all actually happened on the day. In this video below for Natalie and Reed at the Woodland Glasshaus at Bavaria downs one of the groomsmen came running in for the grand entrance in his underwear. It was hilarious. Everyone I’ve shown it to loved the moment and it would create comments like “Your best man would totally do that” or “your mom would flip if that happened.” And I realized that those moments are what make the day more human, more real, more authentic, and I don’t want to make things that are any less than that.
