Amy & Anthony
Today started off at 7:45am with the team meeting at the studio so that we could all head off to our first location of the day; Anthony’s house. Now, we had worked with both Anthony and Amy, having done their engagement shoot in Unionville in the fall of 2008 so I knew they’d be great to be with for the day and easy to work with as well.
When we got there, Anthony was getting ready with the rest of the guys, so naturally we did our thing. The grooms men and family were really easy to work with and seemed to be game for anything that we had in mind. We were able to get a ton of awesome footage and pictures in the time that we were there, and it kind of set the pace for the rest of the day. When we got to the hotel that Amy was at with the bridal party we didn’t want to waste any time, so we scouted the place out before going upstairs to see her. In doing this we found some really unique shots that we wanted to do (and we did them), so we headed upstairs to begin. The brides maids were getting ready with hair and makeup and Amy (who looked amazing), was ready for us to start our coverage of the day.
The church went as smoothly as every. The groom was fitted with a wireless mic so that my video camera picked up all of the speaking, my HD spy cam was set up so that we could get a really cool perspective of the rings, vows, kiss etc, and of course I manned the main video camera. Frame of Mind ran the photo side of things and I also had Eric shooting 2nd camera with his Canon XHA1S. Total coverage!!!
We went to U of T for the park photos, which started off with a friendly game of basket ball. The bridal party vs. the guys that were playing when we got there. Needless to say, the guys (bball players) were a bit better dressed for the game. We continued through U of T for about 1.5 hrs and we shot a lot of great video and photo, then we headed back to the bus to go to the reception.
On the way to the reception the weather changed. Actually, it was almost like we were in a tornado by the time we were in the thick of it, and I saw many felled hydro lines, fences were torn out of the ground and the rain was coming down with such force that it sounded like small stones hitting the car. Oh well, we were done outside!
The reception was at Le Jardin. As always, the hall was amazing. Anthony and Amy had a large screen projector presentation of the engagement video that we shot, but we decided to do a same day slide show as a surprise to them. We got it put together and boy were the bride and groom excited when it started playing. They were able to show the guests that didn’t attend earlier what had happened. It was very impactful.
At the end of the night we wished Amy and Anthony all the best and thanked them for allowing us to work with them for the day. Have a great honeymoon!
