Windsor Ontario Wedding Cinematography | Jen + Adam | Teutonia Club Wedding

Presenting, a beautiful wedding film for Jen and Adam in a town just outside of Windsor, Ontario in Amherstburg. I hadn’t visited Amherstburg in quite some time, so it was a treat to see the town and all its charm all over again.

A bustling downtown area along the shores of the Detroit River just before it emptied into Lake Erie, had so many quaint shops, I wish I had time to walk and stop in each of them! From old fashioned ice cream shops to even a quick sushi restaurant… it had so much charm.

Jen and Adam’s photographer, Stacey Paquette, had some surprises for them for their photo shoot. After the ceremony we were led to the grounds of an old mansion built in the early 1800’s that has since been abandoned. It stood there calm and overlooking the water, once the home of a famous landscape painter and equally as beautiful as the entire day had been for Jen and Adam.

Recently, our bride and groom had yet another occasion to celebrate: after four years of long distance while Adam attended medical school in Missouri, he graduated, and just in time to finally start a wonderful life together with his wife Jen! Congratulations to you two, we are so happy for you.

Credits:
Film: John, Samson, Herman | Perfect Shutter
Edit: Samson
Music: A Good Day Waits by Pat Robitaille. He’s a super talented musician from the Windsor area. Check him out!

‘Like reliving the best dream I ever had! ♥’ – Lina

July 3rd, 2010

On a hot and steamy long weekend, our Detroit wedding videography team was invited to capture the wedding of Lina and Lambros. We crossed the border and traveled to Windsor, ON for this gorgeous wedding day, that incorporated both beautiful tradition and some very stylish detail.

We were awed by the traditional Greek Orthodox ceremony. The artwork and church itself was simply stunning. Next, we followed the wedding party down to Windsor’s Summerfest at the river front facing the Detroit River and Detroit skyline for a creative shoot at the carnival. Everyone was having tons of fun and we even attempted some rather daring shots from atop the ferris wheel. The reception was a big, beautiful affair at the Caboto Club full of touching speeches and plenty of dancing.

Congratulations Lina and Lambros! Thanks so much, from the Perfect Shutter wedding cinematography team.

-John

Video: John, Brian
Lighting: Brian
Editing: John

Perfect Shutter Studios is a Detroit wedding videography studio also serving the Windsor, ON and surrounding areas.

Presenting to you, Christine and Matt.

We filmed their wedding in June and it was a beautiful affair.

Their story together began in childhoold, and they really have journeyed together to reach this point. Developing through their childhood, into adulthood, staring challenges directly in the eye, and conquering those challenges together had really strengthened their love for each other. The experiences they’ve faced together has really made them inseparable.

Christine mentioned that some of her favourite wedding videos she’d seen from others was when there was audio overlaid into the video. Seeing Christine and Matt interact with each other, how they joked and laughed together, we just knew we would be in for some beautiful speeches. Speeches that would leave not a single dry eye amongst the large gathering of friends and family, many whom traveled from all corners of the Earth to witness the union and marriage of Christine and Matt.

Matt’s speech for Christine was one of the most touching, original, genuine and eloquent speech that we’ve ever heard. It took a lot of composure, and love, to deliver his speech from the bottom of his heart. There really is no way we could describe the beauty of his words for her. You’ll just have to listen for yourself.

We would like to thank the Curtis and Hanna family for all their hospitality.

Congratulations once again, Christine and Matthew!

About the production:
Video: Samson, John, Herman
Audio: Herman
Lighting: Herman
Editing: Love story – Samson; Highlights – John

Perfect Shutter is a wedding videography studio based out of Windsor, ON

Some of our own personal favourite moments:
The totally kickin’ Jeep cufflinks and cake for Matt, Christine’s surprise song at the wedding reception, the jazz band playing some great dance tunes, discovering a gorgeously restored vintage jeep perfect for photo and video opportunities, breath-taking sunsets.

The ceremony was held in Windsor, Ontario. For the reception, all several hundred of the guests, family, and friends crossed the international borders to celebrate in Dearborn, Michigan, just outside of Detroit, Michigan. We can proudly call Perfect Shutter — Detroit wedding videographers and Detroit wedding cinematographers now! We love traveling, and expanding our borders and horizons to include not just Windsor videography, but to film wedding videography in Ontario, Michigan, North America, and beyond.

Our very own, John, sat down with Everything Wedding and talked a bit about our wedding cinematography production here in Windsor, Ontario.

Here’s an excerpt from the interview:

What makes (you) different from the crowd?

The creative storytelling approach that we take to producing our videos is what really sets us apart.  Our shooting and editing style is very unique to what we do.

We don’t just run the cameras and record what happens.  We work hard to seek out and capture those perfect moments and details that reflect the couple’s personality and the day’s events.  Then, with clean and natural editing, we select and sequence our shots to truly tell a beautiful story.

Read more about our Windsor Ontario wedding videography from the Everything Wedding website article!

How important is it to be provided with all the RAW footage with my wedding video?

This is an important question that brides face when trying to choose someone for wedding videography. There are some wedding videographers that will provide all your RAW, unedited footage to you on the DVD, while many others would not.

There are two main schools of thought on whether you should be given unedited footage or not. They stem mainly from the wedding videographer themself, and the style that they like to film.

A wedding videographer filming ‘documentary’ style may provide you with all their unedited footage. Their style of filming is based on filming everything from Point A in time to the end, Point B. They may not do much editing for your video and instead choose to provide you with the many hours of footage as their final product.

Wedding cinematography

The videographer who films cinematic style wedding films (‘wedding cinematography’) may choose not to give you the unedited RAW footage. They opt to take a creative, story-telling approach when filming your wedding day. The main goal is to produce a fully-edited, short film that will show off your wedding day to the viewer and evoke powerful emotions such as joy and happiness. Much like a Hollywood producer filming a drama movie, in wedding cinematography there are certain details throughout the day that are captured onto film to help tell your story and to build up the ‘plot’.

In cinematic wedding videography, the little moments are thoughtfully filmed with an intent to be edited at certain points in your wedding video to tell the story to the viewer. These moments may include scenes such as all the workers diligently setting up your reception hall, or a close up scene of the groom nervously tapping his feet while he awaits his bride, or your mother taking a second to adjust your veil before you walk the aisle.

Without any editing, these scenes, which could be up to over 10 hours of ‘unedited’ footage, would just appear to be an assortment of random events that carry very little meaning. If you were to see the unedited footage without seeing the final, edited wedding video, you may even be disappointed and think you wasted your money on a wedding videographer that spent so much time on seemingly unimportant footage!

But the beauty truly lies after the editing process, when the collection of the scenes are interwoven with each other to become your final wedding video. The wedding cinematographer often will spend up to 40 hours carefully choosing the scenes and fitting them, like pieces of a puzzle, into your wedding video.   In the end, the assortment of footage becomes connected to tell a beautiful story — one that you would watch not just once, but over and over — much like your favourite movie.

‘Actual’ vs ‘Perceived’ Value

There are a few questions you should ask yourself when you are trying to pick out wedding videography and if you really need the RAW, unedited footage. They pertain mostly to ‘actual’ and ‘perceived’ value and which is more imporatant to you.

If you favor the ‘documentary’ style of wedding videography, and absolutely need 10 hours of continuous, unedited video of your wedding day, then you should ask for the RAW footage so you can maximize the ‘perceived’ value of your investment — the perception here that the value is getting the most number of bottom-line  hours of footage you end up with.

If the thought of sitting through and watching 10 hours of your wedding video, more than just on one occasion, makes you cringe, then you may not need the RAW footage and opt to hire a wedding cinematographer.  This is where you would favor the ‘actual” value. You’ll end up with less hours of wedding video footage but the final wedding video, whether 5 minutes, or 25 minutes long, of edited footage may show off your wedding day in a much more polished, creative, emotion-provoking, and beautiful way than the 10 hours of unedited footage.

Wedding Videography and Cinematography Guide 101

Taking the mystery out of all your wedding videography related questions

In meeting with brides for wedding videography consultations, we seem to frequently run into the same questions that the brides want to ask.

So we’ve put together a little running guide (we’ll keep on updating it as we go along!) that we hope will be helpful for you as you go through the planning process in planning out your dream wedding!

If you have any other questions, contact us and ask us!

1. Why do I need wedding videography?

   From the way a professional wedding videographer can capture all the sights, sounds, and memories of your wedding day, to not having that regret afterwards, here are 5 reasons you should consider having wedding videography.

2. How should I narrow down and choose the right wedding videography studio?

   Take a look in your local directory or Google, and there could be an overwhelming number of production teams wanting your wedding videography business.  Start by watching their portfolio work — all the previous films they’ve produced as wedding videographers. And read on for 5 hints on how to find and choose the perfect wedding video production.

3. How important is it that I receive all the RAW, unedited footage, in my wedding videography package?

   Some wedding videographers will provide you with every second of footage they film, while others will not and only provide you with their finished product wedding video. Should you ask them to give you all the RAW unedited footage or is it not as important in the grand scheme of things? Read on!

Windsor, Detroit, Toronto, Hamilton

Christine and Matthew's Love Story: Windsor and Detroit Wedding Videography

Nivien and Daniel | Windsor and Hamilton Wedding Video

Lina and Lambros | Windsor and Detroit Wedding Video

Jen and Adam's Love Story: Windsor and Detroit Wedding Videography

Thank you so much to all of our brides and grooms for having us on your wedding day. We’ve been lucky and blessed to be a witness and capture all your love and happiness onto film. This truly is the greatest job anyone can ask for!

Nivien & Daniel’s Wedding Love Story from Perfect Shutter on Vimeo.

Our first destination wedding of 2010 had us traveling to Hamilton, Ontario, to spend the weekend with Nivien and Daniel.

To call it a beautiful wedding would almost be a complete understatement. We haven’t yet been to a wedding with such a gorgeous mix of culture, tradition, colour, and music.

Their love for each other was not just proudly displayed for all their friends and family, but also evident in the quiet moments in between the weekend’s festivities — whispered I Love You’s, soft kisses, and gentle support when the other was nervous.

From the first time they met at a local gathering hole over a spilled drink down Nivien’s back, to lazy beach days in Grand Bend, and now to Hamilton for their wedding, they’ve been on quite a journey and we are happy to see them start on a new one as husband and wife.

Congratulations, Nivien and Daniel.

Video: Samson, John, Herman
Audio: Herman

Photographers: Melissa Miller – Moments by Melissa

Perfect Shutter is a boutique wedding cinematography studio based out of Windsor, ON and also serving London, Toronto, Ontario and beyond.

Perfect Shutter is a wedding videography and cinematography studio based out of Windsor, ON.

Don’t be overwhelmed when you’re trying to choose a wedding videographer for your big day! Just like when you’re chosing a wedding photographer, keep these 5 simple easy tips in mind and you’ll end up with the right choice.

1. Tune in to the power of social networking!

   Facebook, Twitter, check them all! Keep an eye out on your friends that recently got married. Usually they’ll post their wedding videos on their profiles. It’s an easy way to research and find out who’s the perfect wedding video production company out there. Ask your friends privately what their honest opinion was on their videographer.

2. Bring the popcorn, and watch all the videos in their portfolio.

   Better yet, watch it with your fiancé and then ask how he or she felt about the sample videos. Did the other wedding videos evoke any emotions while you were watching them? There’s no better predictor of how your wedding video production will turn out than by seeing the type of work they’ve filmed in the past.

3. Ask to meet with all the members

   of the wedding video production team on your consultation. In many ways, the initial consultation is like a first date. You’ll get to know the videographers and see how they get along with you. There’s nothing worse than having a videography team come to film your wedding, and having it be a bad experience. You can be selective in your choice of which studio to cover your wedding video production. Often your first impression at the consultation is the right impression!

4. Have a tentative schedule of your wedding day’s events.

   Share it with the wedding videography production team. Are they willing to travel to multiple locations across the city to cover you and your fiance getting ready? How early will they arrive in the morning to start filming? If there are unexpected changes to the schedule at the last second, will they be able to adapt on the fly and still get all the footage you need? The perfect wedding video production team will be willing to bend over backwards to make sure your video is perfect.

5. Ask your photographer for recommendations.

   Photographers and videographers often must co ordinate their work during the wedding to make sure they don’t get in each other’s ways. They would be able to tell you from their past experiences who the perfect wedding video production company would be. They can tell you if they were respectful to not only the bride and groom, but to their family, friends, and all the other staff workers at your wedding.

It’s pretty much a given today that you’ve decided to hire a professional wedding photographer to capture your beautiful wedding moments onto photos. But that leaves the next question — Should you hire a professional wedding videography team to produce a wedding video?

Hiring a team whose expertise is in wedding videography would add to your budget no doubt.

But here are 5 reasons we believe that you should strongly consider having wedding videography.

1. Capturing the sights you remember

   . Your wedding photographer will capture the big moments like the first kiss, or exchanging of the vows. With wedding videography, there is the magical feeling that can only be captured onto film. Seeing your very first kiss as husband and wife, or the wide smiles you had when you turned to your guests, all in stunning high definition video is a sight to behold.

2. Capturing the sights you may not have remembered

   … you’ve spent months planning and preparing for your wedding day, and when it finally comes, the day goes by so fast! Capturing the subtle moments is one of the main tenets of wedding videography. All the flowers you hand picked to decorate the church, the laughter and joy in your parents’ faces, your husband holding back his tears of happiness as he waits for you at the altar. These are all subtle, yet vivid memories that make your wedding day special – and will not be forgotten since it will be captured onto video.

3. Capturing the sounds.

   No matter how spectacular your photography is, it is only addressing one of our five senses — the sense of sight. With a wedding video, you would appease not just one, but two of your senses – the sense of vision, and the sense of hearing. Our wedding videography team is fully equipped with professional audio recording equipment. This means we can covertly hook up a microphone to the inside of your husband’s tuxedo. You’ll hear every quiver in his voice as he excitedly (or nervously) says his vows to you. You’ll hear the laughter from your guests as they react to the Best Man’s speech. And you’ll hear the two most important words on your wedding day, crystal clear…” I Do”.

4. Sharing your memories today, and tomorrow.

   For your wedding, you could only have a limited amount of friends and families attend the ceremony and reception. There are so many other relatives and loved ones that might not have been able to make it due to travel or other personal reasons. The beauty of hiring a wedding videography team to produce a wedding video for you is that you can instantly share your wedding day with them no matter where they are in the world. Aunt Jenny can see you in your beautiful wedding gown all the way from England. Also, imagine having your wedding video be a family treasure that you can share from generation to generation. Having your future grandchildren over for the weekend, and showing them your wedding video with them can be moments you cherish for years to come.

5. No regrets.

   The Wedding and Event Videographers Association recently conducted a study, surveying brides. The results were eye-opening…

• 98% of newlywed couples recommended to future brides that they have wedding videography
• 63% of brides that did not consider or have wedding videography, would recommend to future brides to do so. *
• And, there’s no better way to say it than directly from the brides themselves: “(wedding videography) …does a better job of capturing the emotions of the day, records the history of the day better, and they strongly feel that future children will enjoy their wedding video more than their wedding photographs“