Autism Speaks at the August Wedding Happy Hour

 

Plan your wedding while sipping Martinis poolside

Here’s a great opportunity for brides and grooms to meet some incredible wedding vendors, sip a few martinis by the pool and help a great cause!  Please let me know if you can join us for the August Wedding Happy Hour to help Autism Speaks at the Four Points by Sheraton in Culver City.  Anyone who is my guest will get FREE admission and have the opportunity to give a tax deductible donation to Autism Speaks.  It should be a great night for a worthy cause.  For tickets please e-mail me at matt@matrimonypictures.com.  To find our more about Autism Speaks please go to www.autismspeaks.org/ and for more information on the Wedding Happy Hour please visit www.weddinghappyhour.blogspot.com/

Meghan & Matt’s Wedding Trailer on Vimeo

Meghan & Matt Paletz celebrate in style at TPC Valencia.  Please see the detailed post below, but of course I’m a glutton for punishment and I stayed up until 3:00am the night of the wedding to do this highlight for this special couple.  I hope it looks as nice to you all as it did to me through my bleary eyes.  Enjoy!

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Meghan & Matt Paletz celebrate in style at TPC Valencia

I got the privilege of celebrating my anniversary with a wonderful couple last Saturday at the TPC Valencia.  My wife and I were married on June 20, 1998, 11 years strong!  Just for the record, my wife and I celebrated on Thursday night going to the live taping of So You Think You Can Dance and out to a great dinner in Hollywood.  She is very understanding about me filming on our anniversary…come to think of it, she’s very understanding about everything I do which is one of the many reasons why I love her and we’re more in love now than we were 11 years ago.  But enough about us…

I got to shoot a spectacular wedding on June 20, 2009 at one of my favorite locations, TPC Valencia (www.tpcvalencia.com).  Gina Goodrich, coordinates all of the events over there and you’d be hard pressed to find someone who works harder, cares more, or treats the guests and vendors with as much class and kindness as she does.  She’s the best!  

Meghan happens to be very good friends with one of the best wedding coordinators anywhere, Kelly Meyer of Kelly Michelle Weddings (www.kellymichelleweddings.com/), and it showed.  The colors, the details, the flowers, the linens and the candy table were all top notch.  Don’t try this at home people, this was professionally done from top to bottom.  The rentals were brought in by Rusty at AV Party Rentals (www.avparty.com) and he always does a superb job.  The gorgeous flowers were done by Jackie Combs of Jackie Combs Floral Design (www.jackiecombsfloraldesign.com/).  This was the first time I had worked with Jackie, but I sure hope it’s not the last, Meghan couldn’t stop talking about how much she loved the flowers.  

The whole thing was captured by Tara Rochelle of Tara Rochelle Photography (www.tararochelle.com/).  I have worked with Tara and her husband Ryan many times and they’re always a blast to work with.  Tara gets as fired up as I do to find new creative shots and that goes a long way to making the pictures and the video something really special.  

A big thank you to Meghan & Matt and their whole family, this was really a special couple and a very memorable anniversary for me.  I hope their marriage is as blessed and fulling as mine has been.

Of course I’m a glutton for punishment and I stayed up until 3:00am editing a highlight montage for them the night of the wedding, so hopefully it looks as good to you all as it did to me through my bleary eyes.  Please take a look at the trailer above and feel free to leave comments, Enjoy!

Kristy & Joe’s Wedding: A Family Affair

What a great event last night for Kristy, Joe and their whole family.  The emotions were flying and everyone had an amazing time.  Here is the highlight video for everyone to enjoy.  Here’s the link on vimeo.com – http://vimeo.com/2284806

20 Friends ready to help you plan your wedding!

Evening With the Pros May 12th at the Hyatt Valencia

 

Anyone out there ENGAGED?

First of all a big Congratulations to you.  You are about to embark on one of the most exciting, most exhausting and most memorable times of your life.  Memorable is the key there.  No matter if it’s beautiful or not, whether it’s magical or not, it will certainly be memorable!  So it’s important to plan, and then research and then plan some more.  Friends who have recently planned a wedding are invaluable resources for you.  Your friend can share their success stories and hopefully help you avoid some of their mistakes.  But keep in mind through the whole process that this should really be enjoyable for you and no matter how hard you try, it won’t be perfect.

I am the President of a group called the Santa Clarita Wedding Professionals (you can see our site at www.santaclaritaweddings.com).  It is a great group of about 20 wedding vendors from all different categories and backgrounds (florists, videographers, dress shops, entertainers, etc.).  This is a group of highly talented wedding professionals that performs and services weddings all throughout Southern California.  What I love about this group is that we all really care about our brides and we are really dedicated to helping brides plan their wedding with as few mistakes as possible.  

Imagine the opportunity to sit down and talk with a friend who went to 50 weddings just last year!  Now imagine 20 friends all in the same room who each went to 50 weddings last year and they are all ready to help answer any questions you have and give you suggestions on what is really important and how you can save money in the right places.  That’s what this group does and I’m so proud to be a member.

We are holding an event we call “An Evening With the Pros.”  

It is an opportunity for you to come and see some fresh ideas, and ask every question you can think of.  There will be many other brides and grooms there that will ask questions that you didn’t even realize you should ask and then when that’s done, we’ll ask each other questions that we know you should be asking.  We are there for the whole night to speak with the group and then you are always welcome to take us aside privately and pick our brains some more.  

It’s a really fun night of information, hors d’oeuvres, cake and more.  Please join us and get yourself started on the path to a magically memorable wedding!

An Evening With the Pros

The Hyatt Valencia 

Tuesday May 12, 2009 at 7:00pm

Please call for a reservation, seating is limited

$10.00 at the door, e-mail me and I can put you on my guest list to get in FREE!

matt@matrimonypictures.com

The Super Bowl of Weddings in Huntington Beach

What a spectacular wedding I had the privilege of filming at the Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach.  Chris and Keeli Rzewuski put on the Super Bowl of weddings, that was a visual feast for everyone in attendance.  It was great as always to work with such an all-pro cast of vendors with R&R Photography taking the still pictures, Charmaine’s Bouquet Canyon Florist working her floral magic, Atmosphere Entertainment keeping the party going and professional wedding consultant Jill Watson and her team from The Pampered Bride holding it all together.  Check out this video I put up of some of the best moments including the place card table that was a complete replica of a football field!  Feel free to pass the video along to a friend who was at the wedding and I’d love to hear your comments on the action!

Gina & Frank brought down the house

Beautiful people, gorgeous setting and an amazing night.  That’s what we were all treated to at Gina & Frank’s blow out wedding in Hidden Hills last night.  It’s really a joy to see two great people who are great for each other, experience that dream night together.  I think it’s safe to say that, every guest had a blast, thanks mostly to Gina & Frank setting the tone with their very unconventional first dance!  I have posted the video of it below, please take a look and feel free to make comments.  Congratulations Gina & Frank, and thanks for allowing me to be a part of it!

Juan & Rhonda’s Wedding in Full Power HD

We just finished a monster, full power HD shoot.  A huge thank you to the bride, the groom and both of their beautiful families.  We had the privelege to shoot Juan & Rhonda’s wedding at Malibou Lake in full resolution 1920 X 1080 High Definition.  We used Sony’s PMW-EX1 cameras and I was like a kid in a candy store all day.  Big kudos to Juan & Rhonda for planning a gorgeous wedding that went off without a hitch.  Their tireless planning and attention to detail really allowed our shoot to be smooth and glitch free.  I was so blown away with the clarity, the resolution and how easy the workflow was on these cameras.  My assistant cameraman Nathan “The Boy Genius” Meier and I were shooting and loading clips to my laptop all day.  It went so smoothly that I decided to do a totally unplanned, impromptu same-day edit during dinner.  It might not go as smoothly to the music as I normally would demand, but I was so thankful to Juan & Rhonda for making the decision to really go all the way with this, that I wanted to give something back.  I had this video looping on my laptop from about 9:30 pm until the end of the wedding and think it was a big hit.  Of course the YouTube version won’t quite translate the resolution, but please post any comments you have, we’d love to hear your thoughts…

Leilanie & Galen Same Day Edit

It was a long day, but it was well worth it for everyone! We started this shoot at 8:45 am in Carlsbad, CA and ended at 11:30 pm in Anaheim, CA. I have to say the bride looked as beautiful at the end of the evening as she did when she first stepped into her dress. (I wish I could say the same for myself!) Just a top notch, elegant occasion from start to finish and I loved seeing all of the cheers and tears when we showed this same day edit at the reception. Please leave your comments and enjoy. The finished product will be coming soon…