Spent a wonderful Sunday afternoon with Nicole and Neil recently for their engagement session. We were in Goshen.

Second favorite picture, love this bridge and yes I am shoot through a tree branch to add depth of field.

Probably my favorite picture from the day. Was going for a Rat Pack vibe with this one at the pool table.

University of Notre Dame Basilica

If you are a Notre Dame University graduate or a member of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart Church on the campus the day when the books are opened for 2010 weddings is around the corner.  March 2nd is the day when you can schedule your 2010 wedding. Our friend Cynthia Basker of Celebrated Events has written a blog for brides and grooms how to assure that you are able to schedule your wedding at the Basilica. It’s full of very useful information and I suggest if you are planning to have your wedding at Notre Dame check it out!

Basilica Day at Notre Dame blog.

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Children, Engagements, Families, Maternity, Weddings

I’m happy to announce that Allure Films and Allure Photographics will be in attendance at the upcoming Michiana’s Premier Wedding Expo and the 24th Annual Bridal Spectacular. I’m looking forward to the new Wedding Expo, it’s being held at one of my favorite reception halls in the Hilton Garden Inn. And I hear that Cynthia Basker or Celebrated Events and Michael Angelos have teamed up to decorate the fashion runway, which should mean it’s going to be off the hook and look like nothing we’ve seen in this market before.

None of this is to say that you should wait to hire your photography and cinematography services till the bridal show. 2009 is booking up fast, I had recently 6 brides inquiring about July 11th which is now booked up. Six brides calling for the same date over two days is unusual but happens. So if you are interested in our services for 2009 don’t wait to see us at the bridal shows, we might just be booked for your date if you wait that long!

Michiana’s Premier Wedding Expo!
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Noon – 5:00 pm
Fashion Shows at 1:00 & 3:30
Fleur de Lis Ballroom Hilton Garden Inn

The Bridal Spectacular
Sunday January 4, 2009
12:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Fashion Shows at 1:00 p.m. & 3:30 p.m.
South Bend Century Center

If you are a bride or groom this won’t have much impact for you, but it never ceases to be exciting for me when a magazine publishes anything that I write! So to toot my own horn, WEVA (Wedding & Event Videographers Association International) published my review of SpeedEDIT.

Brian

I found this great website that details Photoshop mistakes with a wicked sense of humor. It is a laugh riot. Below is one of my favorite images. Evidently Thing from the Adams Family is loose in Great Briton.

Check out the Photoshop Disasters

Mark and Maria were married at the Notre Dame Basilica of the Sacred Heart and the reception followed at the Century Center White Water Ballroom. You couldn’t ask for a more fun couple to document the day of. As you can see by the end of the trailer they were dancing on the altar, almost. And at the reception it was a non stop party with the happy newlyweds constantly on the dance floor. In fact the difficulty with this wedding film will be the abundance of great dance footage.

New feature: This is a wedding trailer video and as it’s name indicates it is designed to preview the upcoming edited video. I played with a few of these years ago, in fact I think I’ll go dig out my original one, and then promptly forgot about them. This year I am brining them back. The fun thing about them is this is where I can really experiment and play with new ways of editing videos. You will notice at the beginning of this video after the intros (and can you have a more fun intro) you can hear a voice track over the video and song of the bride and grooms vows. Yes it was intentional to have them talk over each other with the grooms vows coming up just after the bride starts speaking hers. Just an experiment but I think it’s fun and if you’d like let me know what you think of it.

Also take note the images of the dome and the basilica were shot of super 8mm film! I love the look of film.

So enjoy the wedding of Mark and Maria.

Music is Stolen by Dashboard Confessional

For years as a disc jockey I ended the night with a two song combination, Last Dance by Donna Summer and What A Wonderful World by Louie Armstrong. Lately though the last song has been this great one from Michael Buble