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Elegant & Contempary Wedding {The Fairmont} San Jose

LoveSpun Jess — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:26:10 +0000

Steven + Melody

Last summer we had the pleasure of filming the wedding of Steven and Melody at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. The couple’s love of clean lines and contemporary simplicity really came through in this modern yet elegant affair. Monochromatic hues of white and creams complimented beautiful orchid arrangements, designed by Amy Burke Designs for both the ceremony and reception, were truly magnificent and set a luxurious tone to the wedding.

Steven and Melody are a genuinely sweet couple with kind hearts and elegant style. We feel fortunate to been part of this special occasion and we hope you enjoy their handmade highlight film.

We also had a blast working alongside our pal Meg Perotti who has some seriously mad skills when it comes to capturing all those magical moments in her noteworthy timeless style. You might remember Meg from the Amelie Inspired Wedding shoot we did a couple of years ago. Check out these amazing photos from Steven and Melody’s big day.

Steven + Melody’s wedding recipe:
Filmmaker: LoveSpun ~ Handmade Films | Photography: Meg Perotti | Venue: San Jose Fairmont Hotel| Lighting: Enhanced Lighting | Flowers: Amy Burke Designs

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A Wedding Wish {Julia Morgan Ballroom} San Francisco

LoveSpun Jess — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:42:33 +0000

John & Jaynel | August 11, 2011
Wish Upon A Wedding

We first met John & Jaynel at the filming of their love story for Wish Upon A Wedding and feel in love with this couple and their outlook on life and the future. We are truly impressed by all the vendors who contributed their services to grant such an amazing gift for this couple. We feel so lucky to have been part of this rewarding and wonderful wedding and to give them our gift of one thoughtfully made wedding film. Congratulations to John and Jaynel!!!

{Wish Upon a Wedding was founded in January of 2010 and is America’s first nonprofit wedding wish granting organization. Wish Upon a Wedding is dedicated to producing weddings and civil union ceremonies at destinations across the United States to individuals facing terminal illness or life altering circumstances.}

Please enjoy their wishful, handmade wedding highlight!

John & Jaynel {Wish Upon A Wedding} Julia Morgan Ballroom from Lovespun ~ Handmade Films on Vimeo.

We were thrilled to shoot alongside our friends at Tinywater Photography who always bring their unique perspective to weddings. Check out these great shots from John & Jaynel’s wedding.

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Christoph + Stacy’s Cornerstone Cuteness {Featured | Style Me Pretty} Sonoma

LoveSpun Jess — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:58:13 +0000

This summer has been spectacular, with weddings in Texas, down to San Diego, and everywhere in between, and the best part is getting to film some of the cutest weddings around (in my opinion). This next wedding is no exception and Style Me Pretty agrees! We are so thrilled that we were not only able to film this wedding and work with such an awesome team of vendors but to see it featured makes my heart pitter patter. Christoph + Stacy chose a circle motif to set the theme for the day. We took note and incorporated the same sort graphics Stacy used in her printed materials into her film so that the imagery would have a consistent feel. I especially love the color scheme of this adorable Sonoma County wedding, so fresh and fun.

Jessamyn Harris did an awesome job capturing all these fabulous details. Make sure to head over to SMP to see all the beautiful images. We’ll be posting more too.

The best gift of all {Giving Back} Wish Upon A Wedding

LoveSpun Jess — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:25:25 +0000

John & Jaynel…A Love Story

I remember the day vividly when I stumbled across a film produced by my friends and colleagues at I Do Films in Chicago, a film that inspired me to the core. It was the heart wrenching story of Beth, diagnosed with cancer, and Nick, her loving and supportive fiancé, and their wish to get married despite her illness. As I watched the film I burst into tears and realized what an amazing organization Wish Upon A Wedding was and knew that I wanted to be part of it somehow. I immediately applied to be a wish granter and waited patiently for the opportunity to be part of the magic.

Fast forward a year later and we are so privileged to have been chosen as a wish granter for a wonderful and deserving couple, John & Jaynel Gilmore. You can read their full story at Wish Upon a Wedding. John & Jaynel are two talented writers who met and fell in love over their shared passions in life. They have overcome obstacles through love and devotion and choose happiness for their future. This is just the beginning!

Photo credit: Tinywater

We hope you enjoy their handmade love story.

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Annie + Harrison’s Handmade Wedding {Featured | Green Wedding Shoes}

LoveSpun Jess — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:29:27 +0000

Annie and Harrison’s handmade wedding was featured on Green Wedding Shoes, a fabulous Southern California wedding blog. Together with a whole team of A list vendors including My Bride Story and He and She Photography, we were able to come away with some eye candy-licious imagery for our bride and groom. With so many lovely details and heartfelt sentiment at this wedding, it’s hard not to make something beautiful. If you missed it, be sure to checkout A+H’s handmade wedding highlight film and head over to GWS to find out about all the DIY goodness.

Thank you to Green Wedding Shoes for including our film in this wonderful feature!

Check out these gorgeous images from He and She Photography! I love the sunny feel of it all. To see all the pictures make sure to check out the full feature on Green Wedding Shoes or on the He and She Blog.

Have a LoveSpunny day!

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!

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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.

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Mill Valley Wedding Film {Featured | Style Me Pretty}

LoveSpun Jess — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 01:57:14 +0000

Danny & Shaudi Pestal had the most gorgeous wedding back on August 28, 2010. Nestled in the coastal redwoods of Northern California at a private estate, this wedding was so stylish and charming. Style Me Pretty also fell in love with their wedding and featured tons of the amazing stills from Seattle based photographer, Sean Flanigan and the couple’s handmade highlights film from yours truly on their blog today. We are so honored to have one of our films featured on Style Me Pretty as their blog is one of our favorite reads for wedding inspiration!

Check out some of these stunning photos by Sean Flanigan followed by Danny & Shaudi’s highlights film:

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“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.

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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!