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Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at

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After I asked about wedding videographers, Chelsea and others suggested renting Super 8 cameras and having friends film the wedding. Then Caroline sent along her absolutely gorgeous wedding video, which her friends took with three Super 8 cameras. Look at how stunning it is! Thank you for the great advice, my darlings. I adore you!
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50 comments:

  1. Awww that is adorable - do it, do it!!!

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  2. Aw. That is so cute! You should check out the super 8 film Taza just made about her road trip. Lots of ideas there.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlOJgQI3lY8

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  3. Caroline's wedding looks like so much fun! What a cheerful bride! I just love the video. Makes it more meaningful that friends were filming it. cool!

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  4. aw, thanks joanna!!! if you need any more advice on super 8's let me know!! we did have to attach lights to the top of them, because the space we got married in was pretty much only lit with candlelight. the color film processed much better than the b&w.

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  5. i almost cried and i don't even know her... :)
    looks awesome!

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  6. you should check out Layer Cake Films on Etsy - http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=9934593

    I want a 8mm film of my wedding soooo badly!

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  7. i love the quality of super 8

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  8. what a beautiful idea.

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  9. LOVE it. So retro. So romantic. So classic. Brilliant.

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  10. SO utterly perfect and just the right length. Amazing!

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  11. adorable! i always thought i didn't want my wedding to be videotaped. now i know i just want it on super 8's! lovely.

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  12. Being a wedding videographer might be my summer job. But I gotta say, this one is really cute.

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  13. This is so wonderful! It would be amazing to pair this with old super 8 home videos. I just remember ones my father used to take and always had "Yellow Submarine" playing.

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  14. Cute! Cute! Cute! And those rings? I think I'm in love.

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  15. Oh my, I LOVE. Makes me want to get married again (to my husband, bien sur!)

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  16. That is perfect. I wish I had thought of it!

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  17. We had a friend film our wedding on 8mm and it is my favorite wedding video that I have ever seen, if I do say so myself!!

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  18. what a nice touch to her wedding! do you know what the first song is on the video?

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  19. that was so sweet!

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  20. dindin4:35 PM

    Love this!
    The song is 'Blue Turning Gray' by Clap Your Hands Say Yeah.

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  21. JOANNA OH MY GOODNESS DO THISSS!!! LOVE IT.

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  22. Definitely go with a Super 8. A friend did ours on Super 8 and I love it. If I had it on the computer, I'd show it to you.

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  23. Wow! Seriously, wow. This is a fabulous idea!

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  24. Wow, that looks super cool and classic. I love the idea of letting friends participate with the video taping. Makes it more personal and fun. Do it!

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  25. Wonderful, wonderful video. I'd run with that idea!

    p.s.
    The bride has a goregous pony tail- I'm jealous!

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  26. AMAZING IDEA! and you can stick in any song you want (your wedding songs perhaps) love it!

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  27. while i was watching this i was wondering if its too self indulgent to plan a second wedding celebration with my husband incorporating all these rad ideas I was too uncool to include the first time around?

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  28. I love it! You should do this!

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  29. That was gorgeous...I loved every bit of it! This is one of those things I wish I'd done at my wedding, had I known. I love this idea. It makes it so personal. My wedding video was unedited and very straight-forward. I just wanted to see the things I wasn't present to see...like the gregorian monks we had chanting before I walked down the aisle, and bits of the cocktail hour that we missed.

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  30. Oh, I love this. Like you, I'm getting married this year and scouting for ideas. I'll let you know how I go sourcing Australian Super 8's....and might try and convince the film-editor buddy to cut it as a wedding present!

    Thanks for this and all your other lovely tips,

    Rachael

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  31. A friend of ours brought his video camera and made a sweet little of our wedding. It was his wedding gift to us and it's been a wonderful momento to have of our wedding day. Also, putting music to images of your real life is so wonderfully dramatic!

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  32. georgialouise12:58 AM

    Hi Joanna!
    I'm a big fan of your blog! And though i have no idea what your music taste might be, you might want to check out Lisa Hannigan and/or Joanna Newsom. Lisa an Irish folk/pop singer, and Joanna is a wonderful harpist/folk artist.

    Lisa's myspace: http://www.myspace.com/lisahannigan

    One of Joanna's videos:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYl0uLrXP7U


    It might make for interesting music to use in a wedding video, if not maybe you'll enjoy them just the same!
    :)
    Cheers!

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  33. Love it! Great choice of music! Thanks for sharing Caroline and Joanna.

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  34. DO NOT FILM YOUR WEDDING

    you end up remembering the movie not the experience

    pictures are enough.

    I am SO glad I didn't film my wedding i cannot even tell you...

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  35. amazing video! would love to know the songs that provide the soundtrack!

    I think that you should do it.

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  36. i love this idea. it's the first wedding video i've seen that didn't make me want to puke!

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  37. Favorite thing ever!

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  38. Jones- the songs are: Blue turning Grey- clap your hands say yeah, Tiny Apocalypse- David Byrne, and Bonnie & Clyde- Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot

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  39. thanks! you looked gorgeous on your wedding day.

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  40. I love that video as well! Such a beautiful bride and wedding.

    It's so funny because the other day I was looking at a blog devoted to wedding stuff and found a super 8 wedding video also and instantly fell in love! I'm not getting married, but I want to be the one to film these weddings with my super 8 camera (as an aspiring film nerd):).
    Anyways, check out Andy at Portal Films for ideas, or to hire him. His work is absolutely stunning. http://www.portalfilms.com/
    and for another of his http://bklynbrideonline.com/?p=2966 (as well as a great wedding blog) Enjoy!!!

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  41. I recently blogged on this topic myself over at my new site:
    http://amountainbride.blogspot.com

    The greatest 8mm wedding videos can be found here (they make my heart flutter and I don't even know these people!)

    http://vimeo.com/user609287
    (via A Bryan Photo)

    Your blog adds a lil "fantastic" to my every morning. Thanks for that.

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  42. Andrea1:40 AM

    Love this! Capitalizing on a great idea, it would be neat to have "regular" filming of various events (vows, speeches etc) interspersed between the Super 8 segments to make the Super 8 segments 'pop'!

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  43. this is just just lovely!

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  44. I could have watched that whole video in Black and White....the bride is so amazingly spirited and naturally charming looking - it was if I was viewing a eco-line of wedding dresses....anyhow- thank you for sharing that- what a privilege to have such a special day filmed in that way- so great.

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  45. Joanna, you should definitely have someone film your wedding...my husband and I both wish we would have done that. It all goes by much too quickly. And this whole super 8 thing is such a great idea!

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