Wedding at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida
Wedding at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida.
“All This Time” by OneRepublic licensed by Song Freedom
Michelle and Justin’s wedding as literally a dream. We flew down and filmed their rehearsal dinner the night before which gave us the idea of using certain stories from the speeches in their Same Day Edit which happened the next night during their real wedding. When you watch this SDE you have to check out the cake, it was mind blowing. Sylvia Weinstock flew down personally to deliver this magnificent piece of artwork and I had the pleasure of meeting her. Michelle and Justin couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day, it had a subtle breeze that made you want to stay their forever. This was our first time at The Breakers in Palm Beach and it exceeded my expectations, this place is a utopia. We also had the pleasure of working with an amazing team of event planners from Zanadu Group based down here in Florida. Cheryl and Dale were amazing to work with and helped me with every detail I needed, top act! Michelle and Kym at The Breakers were just as helpful making sure we knew everything happening at every point. I wish it was like this all the time, wow. My good friend and celebrity photographer Anthony Vazquez shot the stunning photography for this wedding. Anthony had flown directly from WPPI (an international photography convention) in Las Vegas where he as honored with the prestigiuous THE NEXT award, so Michelle and Justin had certainly picked the perfect photographer for their wedding. Michelle and Justin were a very fun couple to work with. You can check out their photographer’s slide show here and also their blog post here. We had the pleasure of shooting a cool concept months earlier where they did an E-Shoot with Anthony Vazquez and had a sick champagne fight. Yep, this is the same couple. Be sure to check out Anthony Vazquez’s blog for Michelle and Justin’s amazing pics as well. You can also folow the story of this bride and groom at The Breakers own blog here. To top it off the live entertainment was off the hook. Marcia Mitchell Band rocked the party all night long, one of the best bands I’ve ever heard.
UPDATE : Honored to have this clip and Michelle and Justin’s story on The Breakers Blog here
FEATURED VENDORS :
Event Planner : Zanadu Group
Photography : Anthony Vazquez
Venue : The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida
Associate Director of Catering : Kym Bichon @ The Breakers
Event Decor : Kim Votaw + The Breakers Design Studio
Lighting : The Breakers Palm Beach Staging & Production
Entertainment : Marcia Mitchell Band
Cake Design : Sylvia Weinstock
Live Event Artist : Agnes Russo
Opening Scene from Christin and Adam’s Full Wedding Film
This is a small portion of what was in Christin and Adam’s feature film. Most of the clips on this blog are Highlight Reels which are small vignettes of the wedding. This is not a highlight but an actual piece of their full 20-25 minute movie.
Wedding Tip : First Dance
You’re first dance is an awesome moment. There’s nothing cooler than watching a couple on the center of a dance floor starring into each others souls and soaking up the moment with their closest friends and family watching. From the perspective of the event cinematographer this can be some of the most dramatic footage of the day. All too often the MC may direct friends and family to join on the dance floor and take away from the moment though.
It is important to remember that in order to make a powerful edit of this dance, we require a full dance with no couples joining in. We are focusing on the right moments and gathering close ups, medium shots, and wide shots as well as reactions from your family and friends to put together this masterpiece. 2-3 minutes of filmming this dance will just cut it. By asking others to join in (sometimes after less than a minute of dancing) we lose potential shots that would have made this dance so much better. So to summarize we suggest the following tips during your first dance.
- Tell your MC that you would prefer to dance the entire first dance alone
- While dancing, its always better to remember to rotate rather than rocking back and forth and pointing in the same direction
- If you haven’t yet, practice your dance a few times just for fun. It will help you feel more natural when you really dance at your wedding
- Try to make sure you stay in the center as much as you can, unless you have a special choreographed dance that forces you to be elsewhere
- If you have a choreographed dance, keep in mind that it will be extremely difficult to get closeups for any length of time and make sure that you practice it untill its second nature. Choreographed dances that are not mastered look unnatural and uncomfortable so if you can’t get it down, revert back to a natural slow dance that you can be comfotable with.
- Under no circumstances should you allow any distractions like photo montages during your first dance. This moment is for you only, hence the name “First Dance”
- Make sure your dance is at least 2.5 minutes, if not longer so it can be filmed properly.
- Don’t get nervous, just block everyone out and own the moment