You WISH Your Wedding Video Looked This Good

About 2 years ago I wrote a post called Wedding Videography – The Taboo Ten in which I detailed the Top 10 videographers you do NOT want to hire for your wedding.   Today, I am thrilled to highlight one such company that will never be found on that list.   303Motion produces wedding videos that breath new life into the industry and, in my opinion, are revolutionizing the idea of what a wedding video can and should be.   I’ll let the sample videos speak for themselves but let me also explain why I chose to highlight this particular company.


Chip & Peanut: Golden, CO from 303Motion.com on Vimeo.

After searching for photographers for my own wedding and viewing several dozen portfolios, it became very difficult to differentiate one photographer’s style from another.   Then I found THE ONE!    The photographer that immediately stood out and the one I ultimately hired had only been shooting weddings for about a year.   His background was in adventure and commercial photography and that’s what gave his photos the edge.   He looked at each shot from an artistic perspective and seemed to have no notion of what a cookie cutter wedding album looked like.
That’s what makes the filmmakers and the films behind 303Motion so refreshing.   The company is comprised of artists with backgrounds in feature film cinematography & editing, commercial production, CG animation and still photography.   They bring their talents from those fields together to craft a uniquely beautiful story.  Your story.

Post courtesy of Naomi from Blushing Bridezilla

Get Married with Google Weddings

Earlier this month, Google launched a full fledged planning portal for brides and grooms to be. Google Weddings is a destination that houses wedding-specific templates in Google Sites, Google Docs and Picnik for save-the-dates, wedding websites, planning materials, invitations and more. Google has also partnered with wedding planner Michelle Rago to provide tips and guidance on which designs to use. This isn’t Google’s first move in the wedding planning world, the search giant also began offering customized wedding templates in Google Docs a year ago that let users access pre-made documents to track your wedding budget, collect addresses for invitations, compare vendors and much more.
I know it’s a little bit odd for Google to get into the wedding planning space but it will no doubt boost the Google Apps products appeal to twenty or thirty something brides. Being that I actually planned parts of my wedding via Google Docs, I think that these templates will be incredibly useful, especially when it comes to sharing documents with others.

Writing on the Google Blog, senior product marketing manager Lisa Conquergood said that “to help you plan this important day we’ve created wedding-specific templates in Google Sites, Google Docs and Picnik, and gathered tips and tricks for using these and other Google products at google.com/weddings. From wedding websites to save-the-date cards, these tools simplify wedding planning, letting you focus your time on the fun things—like tasting cakes!”