Wedding Date on Mar 28, 2020

Emily and Tyler’s wedding day has turned out to be one of the wildest rides I’ve ever experienced as a videographer. Their original wedding date was set for the end of March, which we had no idea would be the week that most of the state went into a shelter in place order. Only one week before the wedding Emily and I were on the phone discussing the wedding plans as normal, and within just a few days everything changed. Tyler and Emily decided to go forward with their original wedding date in a private ceremony attended by less than 10 guests in the middle of a completely quiet, downtown Houston. Their day was relaxed, intimate, and romantic. They were then surprised by friends and family who waited outside the chapel to cheer them on with love and support (from 6 feet away). We spent the next hour after the ceremony capturing portraits and being able to have a ton of fun with the creative freedom that comes with not having a wedding schedule to follow. The original plan was to still have a postponed reception later in August, so everything we had filmed was going to be used in the future highlights video. Unfortunately plans changed yet again, as Tyler and Emily (who is a nurse) recently had to make the tough decision to cancel their August reception. With what only amounted to a couple of hours of filming, I wanted to try my best to still create as full of a highlights video as possible. This video pushed me creatively and forced me to work with what little footage I had (basically almost no b-roll). It was a good reminder that my standards and what I want to create isn’t always going to be in my control, and that what ultimately matters is the bride and the groom getting to relive their day. It’s real, it’s what was experienced and not staged, and I think there is so much beauty in that. Congrats to the Flemings!