05/08/2024
As the person filming your love story, I thought you deserved to know a bit about mine. This is who Iām sure you all have seen me share on my stories all the time. She is my rock, my mentor, my partner, my best friend, and just so happens to be the greatest wedding photographer that I know.
When I first started wedding videography, I was in my sophomore year of film school at Syracuse University, and as a broke college student trying to figure out how to make a quick buck, I found a ton of YouTubers telling me to join a Facebook group and film weddings. So, I did, and I was TERRIBLE at it. Coming from a traditional film background, I didnāt know the first thing about weddings or being a vendor. Actually, the first wedding I filmed was the first wedding I attended š
Fast forward a couple of years, and Iāve now just graduated college, looking for what I wanted to spend my time doing. I had been hired from Facebook by some girl named Jenna to second shoot video at a wedding for her. When I showed up, Jenna and her two friends (Emily and Dani) popped out of her car, and I realized quickly that I was the odd man out. Being the only man in the group, they were weary of me of course, but by the end of the night, the four of us got along so well, that we ended up making a group chat called the Dream Team, and could barely say goodbye. But we ultimately did say goodbye, and that should have been the end of it.
By chance, two weeks later, Jenna had a seconding spot last minute need to be filled, so she reached out to me, and of course I said yes. This time, it was just us, and we could not stop smiling the whole day. Our synergy was off the charts, and we spent two hours after the wedding laughing, chatting and singing in the car after the wedding. We both had just made a new friend⦠but when we said goodbye, I sat in my car facing a two hour drive home and just had to call her. She picked up the phone and I said āI never got to tell you that podcast idea!ā
Iām at my character limit but⦠needless to say Jenna and I met when we werenāt looking for love, and in each other, we found our best friend. ā¤ļø