Last Saturday, July 24th, 2010 Lacey and Jonathan got married! It was a beautiful, some what… HOT day, but everything about the day was perfect! Lacey and Jonathan share a love that just radiates the room! They had me tearing up all day! We were so lucky to have been a part of their wonderful day! Their amazing photographers, Alice and Josh of Mosca Photo have already put up a sneak peak of the day!
Check out their sneak peak on Mosca Photo‘s blog! We’ll be sharing more from their wedding in a few months, as well as many more weddings Champagne has been working on this summer! Stay tuned!!
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again and again, your wedding day flies by and having a videographer to capture the moments that you may have missed or want to remember forever is necessity! Having a professional photographer is one thing you can’t go without, but when you want to go back and hear your vows and the sound of your grandmas voice, there’s nothing that preserves that better than a professional videographer. Ambient Sky is sharing with us today a little about why video is so important and some to die for samples! Enjoy!
Champagne: How would you describe your videography style?
Ambient Sky: Highly stylized, artistic with a cinematic flair. Engaging, heartfelt and timeless.
Wedding Day Highlight
Champagne: How did you get into videography?
Ambient Sky: Our backgrounds are pretty varied. Between the two of us we have extensive experience in Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Event Planning, Photography, Audio Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and Music Theory and Composition. About 8 years ago Scott decided to go back to school where he studied Multimedia, Graphic Design and Filmmaking. Amanda’s love of weddings and events lead to the idea of creating wedding films. The more we got into it the more we realized it was the perfect blend of our talents and our passions and we love working together.
Wedding Trailer
Champagne: Often times we have people tell us, well my parents have never watched their wedding video, I doubt I would. What’s your response to this?
Ambient Sky: Wedding video as an industry has evolved incredibly fast in the last 10 years from virtually unwatchable home video, fly on the wall style wedding videos, to a true cinematic experience like we offer with our Couture Wedding Films™. With our films, the days of the wedding video that never gets watched is over. Our clients regularly rave about how many times they watch their wedding film. We pride ourselves on the timeless experience we create for our clients and their families. We spend a great deal of time and effort on each wedding film making sure it’s something that they will want to watch again and again. Our advanced style of shooting and our engaging edits make our vision of a wedding film unlike anything most couples have ever seen before.
Same Day Edit
The short highlight of the wedding day that we show at the reception. One of our most popular offerings.
Champagne: What sets you apart from other videographers?
Ambient Sky: Everything! Our creativity in storytelling, in shooting, in editing. Our sense of the moment, and capturing the really important ones when they present themselves thru-out the day, then weaving these together with the rest of the days events into a feature style wedding film.
Being the trend setters of the wedding film industry in the area, it is somewhat flattering to see our style and techniques show up in the work of many of our competitors. However, it’s our internal drive that keeps us always learning, evolving and pushing the envelope in our wedding films. We are always looking for a better way to shoot, to edit and to tell our clients stories in a more engaging way. We introduced the Portland/Vancouver markets to the concept of a highly stylized and enthralling Same Day Edit video shown on a big screen at the reception. It provides the couple, their family and friends with an entertaining vignette of the days events that is unparalleled. We were even the first wedding filmmakers in Portland to blog! Check ours out often, as we are proud of every film we produce which means we are always filling the blog up with our latest and greatest.
All aspects of our company focus on the style and elegance that we portray in our films. You won’t see pictures of our cameras or our gear in our advertising. The majority of couples we work with simply want a great wedding film. While we do use some of the most advanced visual and audio capture equipment in the filmmaking industry they are all just tools that help us create better wedding films.
Our expertise in showing our brides in the most flattering and elegant way garnered us a WEVA Creative Excellence award in the highly competitive Bridal Spotlight category, making us the only studio in the Pacific Northwest to ever win this incredibly difficult category. WEVA (Wedding and Event Videography Association) is an international organization that is the most prestigious in our industry to win an award from. It’s basically our Academy awards. We’ve also won a variety of other awards including a Telly for our Fashion Style Video of Miss Oregon 2007, Kari Virding.
Bridal Elegance Film
Champagne: What do you do when you’re not doing what you do?
Ambient Sky: Try to keep up with our 3 year old daughter who is quickly becoming a force of nature. Spend time with our friends and family. Discovering new music and watching movies (but that’s “research” for us)! Dancing and playing Hockey (not at the same time)!
Engagement Film
Champagne: What’s one tip or advice you have for couples as they plan their wedding?
Ambient Sky: Don’t skimp on preserving your memories. You put so much time, money and heart into planning your day and it goes by in a flash. Photography plays an important role but it serves an entirely different purpose in the moments it captures. The truth is, people rarely have the emotional connection to a photo that they do to our finely crafted wedding films. It’s not uncommon for couples visiting us to tear up while watching one of our previous clients wedding films. And it’s not often, if ever, that people do the same looking at wedding photos of people they don’t know. We always recommend to couples that they should prioritize both photography and a wedding film in their budget.
Champagne: Is there anything else you’d like our readers to know?
Ambient Sky: Our overall professionalism, passion and creativity that we bring to each wedding and event we shoot comes thru in the experiences our clients have with us and in the final movie they get to enjoy. We are also a husband and wife team and we have great respect for marriage and family. Having been married for 10 years now with our wedding a very distant memory, we have a very intimate connection to the value of what we provide to our clients. Needless to say we don’t have a wedding film from our wedding because there was no one in the area creating anything worth paying for when we got married. We don’t remember our vows, we don’t remember Amanda’s father’s performance during our ceremony, we can’t remember the toast my brother gave that brought us to tears. If we could somehow go back and shoot and edit our own wedding film with all the experience and knowledge we have now, it’s value would easily be priceless to us.
If you are unsure about videography for your wedding day, simply watch our work and we would love to talk with you more about creating a timeless wedding film for you!
Champagne: Thank you, Ambient Sky, for sharing more about videography and your company with us! We look forward to working with you soon!
This coming September 4th, Amber and Ben will tie the knot! They’ve spent a little over a year planning for their much awaited big day and Mosca Photo- their amazing photographers- have been capturing their love through out the planning process through 4 fabulous engagement sessions!
Last Thursday we attended an event at West Coast Event Production‘s new venue, Pure Space. It’s personally one of my favorite new venues and one of my top 3 choices for my wedding. It’s an urban blank slate space with two walls filled with wall to wall windows. The event that we attended was Oregon Bride Magazine‘s annual Best of Bride Party. At the party they had delicious appetizers by some of Portland’s best caterers, wine from some of the Oregon’s finest wineries and a gorgeous fashion show! On top of being a great event for vendors to reconnect and mingle with brides, they also announced Oregon Bride Magazines Best of 2010 winners. We are so honored to have won Oregon Bride‘s Best New Wedding Vendor award.
Without the help and support of our families, friends, vendors and clients we would not be where we are today! Thank you all for making this first year as Champagne Wedding & Event Coordination a huge success! With 6 years of experience and an ongoing love and passion for what we do, we couldn’t be happier to be helping you have a stress free wedding day!
For those of you who know me well, know that I’ve been waiting for this day for quite some time! Sure, being a wedding planner I’ve always wanted my own wedding, but I always said that I wouldn’t begin to plan it until I met the man of my dreams. Little did I know at the time that I had already met the man of my dreams years ago! Darren and I went to the same middle school, but I didn’t know much other than his name. We went to the same high school and let’s just say I was dying to know everything about him. We had mutual friends and so we began to hang out often. I remember the first day I got up the nerve to invite him to a get together and he said he couldn’t because he was waxing his car. Let’s just say, he’s never heard the end of that one! Years went on, I moved on from my high school crush, we stayed friends…best friends, and to keep from boring you with the details, we’ll skip ahead to November 2008. It all started when we started going to work out in the morning together. To some that may be normal, but lets just say I’ve never been one to have a regular 7:00am work out routine! We then slowly began to date, but both didn’t say a word because we didn’t want to jinx it… 1 month later [Okay so maybe more like 3 days!], I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with him!
Well I’ve been waiting for this sparkling rock for quite sometime, this past week, he popped the question!
Here’s how it happened…
Since it was the last weekend I have off til September, we headed to the coast for the night…
We played in the sand…
We waited for the sunset…
I said the sunset was lame… [I was hoping to get some cool pictures and I was disappointed with the turn out! haha!]
Little did I know that Darren had planned to propose just minutes after, but instead we headed back to the beach house…
The next morning I was a little bummed he hadn’t proposed and decided to get ready for the day…When I got out of the shower Darren was at the front door and said, “Woah, what’s that?”
I didn’t think much of it and then he said, “Look what I found for you!”
I said, “Ooo what is it!!?”
He opens up his hand and it was a rock… I was instantly annoyed.
About 3 weeks ago, he had rocks delivered for the backyard and he had said, “Look babe, I got you a rock” [Joking around about getting me a diamond]. At this point, I was not in the mood for a rock!
I said, “Grrr, you’re rude!” or something really mature like that [haha!] and turned away from him.
He said, “Wait, how about this one?”
and asked me to marry him! I, of course, said yes after freaking out and saying, “are you serious, are you serious, is it really real?!”
We spent the day at Cannon Beach, Oregon and had our families over for ice cream sundae’s to spill our big news!
I could not be more in love with Darren or my new sparkly rock! I’m still in some what of disbelief that I’m engaged, but once I have a day off and begin planning for the big day, I’m sure it’ll hit me!
Thank you for letting me share our story with you! Many people have been asking when the date is… we have picked one yet, but will be sure to keep you all in the loop!
Cheers,
Mandi
Hope you all have a wonderful and safe holiday weekend!!! We will be out of the office for a wedding this weekend and spending some time with our families on Sunday and Monday for the holiday, but we’ll be back in the office Tuesday!
