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“Love & Surf” inspired faux wedding {Featured | Snippet & Ink}

LoveSpun Jess — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:08:11 +0000

We couldn’t be more thrilled to share this “Love & Surf” inspired wedding shoot that has been in the works for some time. While it may be chilly in most parts of the Northern Hemisphere right now, this California beach & surf inspired wedding is sure to warm you up. With so many newly engaged couples this time of year searching for inspiration for their summer weddings, this might just fit the bill for the surfer girls at heart.

This LoveSpun girl happens to be a beach bum, a California girl through and through, so when I got the invitation to work with this amazing and talented group of vendors on a retro surf wedding, I jumped at the opportunity! Together with Tinywater Photography, Amber from Platinum Planning, Audrey from Botanica Floral Design, Tina from The Cookie Drop, Rona Basa from Luxe Image, and graphic artist, Alice Koswara we took our concept from a Snippet & Ink inspiration board and put our own twist on it. The result: A sun & fun filled wedding, complete with an outdoor movie theater to finish off a wedding with a little Endless Summer…A California girl’s dream!

Check out these amazing photos by Tinywater

A special thanks to TNT Automotive for providing their awesome Red and Cream 59 Edsel with a gold sparkle roof for our shoot.

For even more beach wedding inspiration & Tinywater eye candy, visit the full post at Snippet & Ink

Thanks for checking us out!

Destination Wine Country Wedding {Harvest Inn} St. Helena | Part 2

LoveSpun Jess — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:44:53 +0000

Lauren & Billy Paver | January 29, 2011

This just might be my favorite wedding film to date. So much beauty, so much fun, so much HEART. Napa Valley in winter was the perfect backdrop for Lauren & Billy’s destination wedding. It was truly a family celebration full of tears, reflection, and the dawning of a new life together.

Thanks for coming back to check out Lauren & Billy’s handmade wedding highlights film. Please enjoy!

Music licensed by Songfreedom.com

~Thanks for stopping by~

San Francisco Ferry Building Wedding {Featured | Style Me Pretty}

LoveSpun Jess — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:22:31 +0000

We are so fortunate to have filmed some of the loveliest weddings in 2010, in turn creating some of the loveliest wedding films of our career. Wonderful couples, beautiful venues, and amazing vendors have made 2010 one for the record books. If you had the chance to meet me, it is probably very apparent that I LOVE what I do. I can’t speak for my whole team, but I personally cry at almost every wedding, I still gush over beautiful shoes and dresses, and i never tire of participating in one of the most authentic events in life, two people committing to spend the rest of their lives together.

For me, making my clients happy and giving them an artistic representation of this most sacred event is the most important task I have. My reward is seeing people react to what we have created for them and knowing that we were able to preserve something so meaningful. With that I am content and so when other vendors, colleagues, and industry leaders are also impressed by our work, I am humbled. In 2010 our work has been recognized multiple times by wedding planning blogs and we could not be more honored. A huge thank you to Style Me Pretty, who has featured 2 of our films from 2010, the latest of which is Ben & Amy’s SF Ferry Building wedding! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!!

Scott Andrew is an incredibly talented photographer and it was such a great experience working alongside him for the day. I love working with people who are as passionate about their craft as we are about ours. Below are just a few shots of his but I would recommend checking out the full gallery over on SMP.

Thanks for stopping by LoveSpun Films!

“We Create” A feminine voice rises in wedding filmmaking

LoveSpun Jess — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:24:29 +0000

42 dedicated women filmmakers and photographers.
One powerful message: We Create.

If you’ve been keeping track of LoveSpun, you know that recently I had the wonderful opportunity to attend POSH 2010, an educational workshop for female filmmakers & photographers from around the globe. When all of us came together it didn’t take long to realize that we are just scratching the surface on something huge. I know in my local market of Sacramento, I am one of a few, if only, established female wedding filmmaker that I can find and even in San Francisco, a huge city, in the Bay Area Professional Videographers Association I belong to, there are but a few female voices among the group. This is not a “I am woman, hear me roar” sort of statement, just a reality that lady videographers have always expected. There are so many amazingly talented men in this industry that I look up to, and motivated me to become the artist that I am today.

With that said, imagine now realizing that we have an instant support system overnight? Other girls trying to run businesses, raise kids, be great wives, they just “get it!” It was a powerful week of training and networking and the theme that rose to the top was that we have so much to offer to the wedding industry because of our feminine voice. A wedding is after all, a little girl’s dream and WE are that little girl!

Inspired by our shared experiences in wedding industry, the attendees spontaneously decided to use our creative gifts to craft a short film illustrating the positive power and passion of women in the film industry.

We Create from POSH on Vimeo.

Shot on location at POSH 2010, “We Create” was directed by Maura Coleman-Murray and Kara Jensen, filmed by Maribeth Ratajczyk and Luiza Perkowska, and edited by Meg Simone. All 42 POSH 2010 attendees collaborated on the piece.

Thanks for stopping by!

The life of a wedding videographer is tough {just kidding}

LoveSpun Jess — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 20:12:12 +0000

The life of this wedding videographer is tough, well not really, in fact we have had the busiest fall ever and traveled to some amazing weddings and events.

September brought repeated trips to the Sonoma & Napa Vallies for the wine country wedding of Matt & Odessa and a very special project we are working on with Chef Pajo Bruich and Anani Lawson, formerly of The French Laundry, to create a short film about their collaboration of food & wine talents. The film is set to be debuted late winter 2011.

October started out with a bang with the absolutely fabulous wedding of Ben & Amy at the San Francisco Ferry Building, expertly designed and executed by the awesome Alison Ulshoffer Events and scrumptiously catered by Paula LeDuc Fine Catering. Stay tuned for their wedding trailer that we are working on as we speak.

We filmed the adorable wedding of Kristen & Casey at the Historic Bee Bennett House in Placerville and we wrapped up the month with another trip to the Sonoma Wine Country to film the wedding of Evan & Kamila Gerber. Evan & Kamila tied the knot in sunset splendor at the beautiful Paradise Ridge Winery in Santa Rosa, CA. Just a few stills we pulled from our footage which is a good inclination that the film should be stunning.

In November, things really started heating up with a trip south of the border to film Clark & Sarah’s Mexican destination wedding at the Hotel Playa Fiesta in Puerto Vallarta. Another fabulously planned and designed wedding by destination wedding planner, Alison Ulshoffer Events, this wedding married California style and sophistication with the rustic and authentic experience of Jalisco culture and hospitality. We had the pleasure of shooting alongside photographer Penny Sylvia, also hailing from Sacramento, to capture all the nuances of this very special destination wedding.

Less than 24 hours after returning from Puerto Vallarta, I was headed back to the airport to catch a plane to Florida where I was about to meet up with 40+ female filmmakers from all over the world for a 5 day workshop in the Bahamas. At the POSH workshop we had the unique opportunity to network with and learn from some of the most influential women filmmakers in our industry. Stay tuned for a film we whipped up about women filmmakers.

Upon returning back to California, I wrapped up the learning schedule by attending an all day, hands-on, Ray Roman Films workshop put on by the Bay Area Professional Videographers Association. Needless to say, I was bubbling forth information to the LoveSpun team, infusing them with all the tips and tricks I gleaned in my travels. After 3 months of non-stop filming it seems, the real work now begins. We will be working our hardest to create new and exciting films to share with you soon

Thanks for checking out these images from some of our fall adventures. Stay tuned for new freshly spun films coming at you real soon!

Vintage VW Inspired Save the Date Film {Featured | The Wedding Chicks}

LoveSpun Jess — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:04:17 +0000

We LOVE The Wedding Chicks so when they said they wanted to feature our “Cute as a Bug” Save the Date Film, I was, to say the least, more than flattered. Save the Date films are such a fun and engaging way to tell all your friends and family that you are getting married! LoveSpun Films is one of only a few wedding videography companies in Northern California who actually offer this type of service. We love to travel so don’t worry if you are out of state, we can bring our services to you. Contact us today so that we can start dreaming up your one of kind Save the Date film!

This Save the Date film was professionally designed & styled by 2Chic Events & Design.

Click here for more information on styled films

This film was so much fun to put together and for those of you who missed it, here it is again.

For best play back: Push play and then pause immediately to allow the film to buffer all the way. You can toggle HD off if you experience skipping.

French Inspired Wedding Shoot {Featured | Nonpareil Magazine} Part 2

LoveSpun Jess — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 16:42:39 +0000

NONPAREIL | Sweet Amelie | Behind the Scenes

Here is our behind the scenes look at the “Sweet Amelie” feature for Nonpareil Magazine‘s current issue followed by amazing imagery by Meg Perotti. Yelena Johnson of The Stylish Soiree brings the movie Amelie to life with her French inspired design & styling. We are so honored to be the first videographer ever to have a film featured on Nonpareil Magazine!!! Too cool! Please enjoy!

~ More beautiful stills from “Sweet Amelie” ~

~Photo credits to Meg Perotti~
Special thanks to my friend & fellow filmmaker Matthieu Meynier for his French translation & vo work!
Also, thanks to Emily Jayne Scott who played the role of Amelie, she did a fab job!

French Inspired Wedding Shoot {Featured | Nonpareil Magazine} Part 1

LoveSpun Jess — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 23:32:25 +0000

NONPAREIL | Sweet Amelie

Recently, I had the great pleasure of filming a behind the scenes look at one of the features for Nonpareil Magazine’s current issue. This dazzling issue of Nonpareil Magazine features weddings inspired by famous romantic movies & for this particular article, Yelena Johnson of The Stylish Soiree brings the movie Amelie to life with her French inspired design & styling. Meg Perotti, the oh-so amazing photographer, was on hand to capture the fabulous imagery for the article.

This article is a must-read! Yelena lets us in on her secrets for this concept & design, and how you can incorporate these types of design techniques into your own wedding.
Nonpareil Magazine also featured our accompanying “handmade” film on their blog! Thank you so much to Maddy & Kristen over at Nonpareil for showcasing a bit of LoveSpun on your blog! What an honor!!!

This was a particularly amazing project, not only because of the stunning artistry of the shoot, but for the opportunity to work with such an innovative team of professionals. Here is the team:
The Stylish Soiree | Pink Lincoln | Meg Perotti Photography| Symmetry Beauty | Sand Rock Farm | Little Miss Press