The day started extremely humid. Think sweating through your shirt at 10am humid. The morning weather was brutal, but wedding days with couples like this are what I dream about. See, the weather in Beaumont is still Texas weather, and by noon it changed its mind, cooled off, and turned lovely for a wedding.
Oh, and in case you haven’t watched the film above, these two are ridiculously, head over heels in love, which always makes for fun filming. Also, Hannah loves the color pink. Heck, I love the color pink! I love bright wedding colors and I love couples in love.
A word on that humidity, since it’s a real thing you have to plan around in this part of Texas. Bringing a cold camera out of an air conditioned room into that air fogs your front element instantly, and it will not clear on your schedule. So you take the lenses outside early and let them come up to temperature before anybody needs you, and you keep a cloth on you all day. It’s a small thing that has ruined shots for people who didn’t think about it.
Hannah Made The First Move
Now that the obvious things are out of the way, let me tell you a few things about Hannah and Steven that are less apparent at first glance.
They first met in April 2013, but Hannah made the first move, adding Steven on Facebook that August. Taking the initiative from her forwardness, he invited her to go dancing, to which of course she said yes.
Since then they haven’t gone two days without seeing each other, and one year from their first date they were married at The Church On The Rock in Beaumont, Texas.
Sound fast? To some people it may seem quick. But spend five minutes with them and it becomes obvious they’re the perfect fit for one another. Once you’ve spent a bit of time with somebody and it’s clear they like the things you like, and they like you, well, marriage becomes a good decision rather quickly.
A Hot Pink Tie And A Non-Pink Dress
So Steven with his hot pink tie, and Hannah with her non-pink dress, found themselves getting hitched by a minister bearing a passing resemblance to Timothy Dalton. While I found myself filming the nuptials.
A church this size gives you a genuinely good problem: room to move. You can shoot the aisle from the back, cut to a tight angle from the side, and get up high over the congregation, all without ever standing anywhere a guest can see you. It’s the opposite of a small venue where every position you want is somebody’s seat.
And Then Everything Turned Pink
Hannah’s love of pink was not a suggestion. It was the reception. Uplighting, the dance floor, all of it, and honestly it’s a gift on camera. Colored light gives you something to work with, and once the room goes that saturated you stop fighting it and start shooting for it.
The send-off happened out on the street, well after dark, with a car covered in ribbon and the whole party spilling out of the building behind them. Night exits are where a low light camera earns everything you paid for it, because there is no second take and no time to light anything. You get whatever the streetlights and the taillights give you.
Did I mention I love filming weddings like this?
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