by On Bended Knee | Jul 17, 2011 |
Sitting outside of our hotel in Sri Lanka right now, the Girithale Hotel (or that’s what I got from the pool boy who just tried to enunciate it for me). The wedding was a success, despite monsoon rains on the day of. A very traditional, cultural experience, and I was honored to be a part of it. I look forward to sharing pictures and a video as soon as I return. For now, I am off to go elephant riding….
ps. I will be here for the next 9 days… editing a little each night, in preparation for what’s called the HOmecoming party, where the bride and groom return from their honeymoon. At this party, I will show the video of their wedding. There will actually be some guests who weren’t at the wedding (mind you 800 were!!)
by On Bended Knee | Jul 9, 2011 |
Gonna be a late night, as today’s wedding doesn’t start until 5pm, and will go to 1am. It gives me the morning to finish printing the discs for Lian and Dan, whose wedding video I just finished yesterday. I will post a link to their montage a bit later.
by On Bended Knee | Jul 4, 2011 |
After what has already been a long weekend, we now find ourselves at THE day of Independence. Thank you to all of our men and women of service out there. While we are cooking out, and celebrating an extra day off, you are out there protecting out freedom to do so, and I can’t thank you enough.
That said, I won’t be doing much extra celebrating today, as I plan on editing most of the day away, so that I can try and get completely caught up, before leaving for Sri Lanka next week. Hopefully I’ll find time to enjoy one of Nathan’s finest before the day is up, and maybe see a few fireworks tonight.
I hope you are all enjoying your day with family and friends, and as you should always, BE SAFE!
I’ll leave you with one idea….
Proposal Idea of the Week:
Okay at just about every wedding I film now, there is a photo booth. While I don’t necessarily suggest doing this at someone’s wedding, because you don’t want to steal any thunder from the bride and groom, find a photo booth at a mall or theme park. Disneyland or World would be a great choice. Take your girlfriend there.
YOu need to have 4 pre cut small pieces of white cardboard paper.
1- WILL
2- YOU
3- MARRY
4- ME?
Tell her you will do 3 sessions. She will go by herself, and take 4 pictures. Then you will, then both of you. You’ll get her 4 pics by herself, pre proposal. Then you, during your proposal, then the both of you, POST proposal. While she is doing her solo pics, make sure you have all of you pieces together, and have the ring handy, to pull out with the 4th card if you want as well.
I’d try and wait in the booth by yourself, until your pics are printed. Make up whatever reason you want. If you can’t pull that off, get out and stand behind her as she goes to grab the pictures. When she pulls yours out, and turns around in shock, there you will be, On Bended Knee.
The rest of you day in the Park will be a magical one.
by On Bended Knee | Jul 2, 2011 |
The past few days have been filled with hurdles and technical difficulties in getting my website’s email functional. The email was working, but the contact us form on the website was not. Now the contact us form is working, but the emails are bouncing. It all has to do with a GoDaddy issue with wordpress pages, and doesn’t seem to be easily correctable.
We are switching servers at this time, and in doing so, will not be receiving email for the next few hours. If you would like to reach me in the meantime, please email me directly at jeremy@1acerex1.com, or just call me at (818)613-5984.
I look forward to having this issue resolved soon, so I can enjoy an extremely rare Saturday off!
Have a great July 4th weekend everyone!
by On Bended Knee | Jul 1, 2011 |
So I just finished a rush edit for one of two dvds for an amazing couple, Lian & Dan. They had a wedding filled with a tremendous amount of energy and positivity that rubbed off on anyone and everyone. This was in part, due to their friends. At Lian’s request, I stumbled upon a new feature I am offering, the “Confessional Booth.”
Rather than offering traditional testimonials, where I either go table to table with a microphone, or have people come up to me in any given public area, I set up a private “booth,” for people to come talk in. At the Smoggeshop, in Los Angeles, they had a built in large closet that worked perfectly!
Long story short, it was a hit, and I am amazed at the difference in what people will say and or do without spying eyes all around them. BUT, that story is for another day…
There were still a large amount of standard, yet very sincere and heartfelt voices of congratulations. I got reflective myself upon listening.
I’ve been filming weddings for over ten years now, and I’ve always heard people, generally uncles and aunts, close friends, grandparents obviously… say that they have known you (the bridge and/or groom) since they were in the womb. That’s always blown my mind. Like, wow, that’s a pretty amazing journey to witness. I picture my young niece. As I thought about it though, I was like, “Wow, I am not too far away from being the guy saying something like that.”
It’s pretty amazing how fast life goes by. Another weekend. Another wedding. Another day filled with memories that will live on forever. We grow old, but we try to stay young. IN that confessional booth, the young twenty something, early thirty something crowd, is obviously a bit more lively and “crazy” then the slightly older crowd, with a few exceptions of course. Does it have to be that way?
Going off on a bit of a tangent, and lots left to edit before a big trip in just over a week, so I’ll wrap this up, before I confuse you anymore.
Bottom line, I’m so close to being that guy that saw his niece grow up and into a beautiful bride, but I still feel like the kid growing up into that person. Can’t we have it both ways?
And… If life was like a confessional booth, life would be quite a party…
