For Zac and Lindsey, it was the quiet moments that Rachel and I wanted to capture the most.
Their wedding absolutely had loud in it. There was dancing, some genuinely crazy moves, and an exuberant shout of joy the second they were pronounced husband and wife. But for every one of those, there was an equally small and more intimate moment that nobody saw except us and them.
In place of funky dance moves, there were warm embraces in the sunset. And though nobody knew it at the time except the handful of people standing closest to them, their pronouncement of marriage included the two of them whispering “no, I love you more” back and forth to each other.
That’s the whole film, right there in one line. That’s why it’s the title.
The Letters Come First
The film opens on the two of them writing and reading letters to each other, which is my favorite way for a wedding film to start. You get the couple’s own voices, saying their own words, before a single guest has arrived and before anybody is performing for a room.
If you’re a couple reading this and you’re wondering whether it’s worth the time to write something down, it is. It’s the single best thing you can hand your filmmaker, and you get to keep it either way.
Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi gives you the Gulf, palm trees, and light coming off the water that you cannot fake anywhere inland. Everything about the day sat against that.
Shooting For The Small Moments
Filming a wedding like this is mostly a question of where you decide to point the camera. The big beats take care of themselves. Somebody is always going to catch the aisle and the first kiss and the cake.
The quiet ones don’t announce themselves. A couple leaning into each other for two seconds while everyone else is looking somewhere else, a hand on a back, something whispered that you can only tell happened because of what her face does right after. You get those by staying with people longer than you think you need to, and by keeping a long lens on so you’re not standing on top of them whenever it happens.
The Music In This Film
- 🎵 “Acoustic Noodle” by Feverkin, licensed from Marmoset
- 🎼 “You Never Leave” by Loud Harp, licensed from Musicbed
- 🎹 “Hope” by John Lucas, licensed from Musicbed
Cut in Adobe Premiere Pro and color graded with my LUTs.
The Gear I Filmed This With
📷 The whole kit lives here: my favorite wedding filmmaking gear. The pieces that did the most work on this day:
- My insanely good lowlight main camera
- My favorite wide angle lens with autofocus
- The ultra-versatile medium lens with autofocus
- The best drone ever and the filters for it
- The beefy electronic gimbal
- A fantastic video monopod
- The ridiculously tiny audio recorder and mic that gets the letters and the vows
- A prism for fancy in-camera effects
- My fast video editing laptop
- An indestructible camera case
- A light and sturdy travel tripod
- A portable LED lighting kit
Loud, Quiet, Or Both
Whether you’re loud and wild or quiet and intimate, or honestly both at different hours of the same day, we would love to talk about filming your wedding. 🎥 Please get in touch.
And if you’re the one filming: 🎬 my wedding film editing course covers how a film like this gets built, ►► my free guide to booking more wedding clients is a free download, ✌ the Learn Wedding Filmmaking Facebook Group is where the rest of us are, and I also offer one-on-one filmmaker consulting if you want to sit down and talk through any of it.