Pilnyu & Alon’s Wedding at the Prado

Pilnyu & Alon got married at the beautiful Prado at Balboa Park on November 28, 2008. It was pointed out by their officiant that the chances of them meeting – Pilnyu from South Korea and Alon from Israel was over one in a billion. Against all odds, they stood to be united in marriage.

We were able to capture some fantastic time lapse footage throughout the day at Balboa Park. We were also lucky enough to have the bride and groom spent so much time with us towards the end of the reception to get some amazing romantic shots. Take a look at their highlights and tell us what you think.

View the highlights on our site at www.sdhdwed.com/112808 or click the image below to watch it directly on Vimeo.

Click to view Pilnyu & Alon's Wedding Highlights on Vimeo

Mike & Mia at Arbor Terrace

Mia and Mike got married on July 11, 2008 at Arbor Terrace at Grand Tradition in Fallbrook, California. This exotic setting is more beautiful than words can express. From the waterfall backdrop to the romantic fireplace behind the sweetheart’s table, every wedding that we’ve shot at Arbor Terrace has turned out amazing.

Mia and Kyle worked together in a past life so she immediately thought of us when she began to plan her wedding. Mia and Mike had the wedding of their dreams and we were able to capture it perfectly. View the highlights on our site at www.sdhdwed.com/071108 or click the link below to watch it directly on Vimeo.

Click to view Mia and Mike's Highlights on Vimeo

Mayra and Bryan’s Wedding Day Highlights

Meet Mayra and Bryan. They got married on August 30, 2008 at the Hilton Garden Inn in beautiful Carlsbad, California. Bryan met with us early last year after he found some of our videos on YouTube! Talk about free advertising!

Bryan pursued Mayra for quite some time, and she wasn’t an easy woman to win over. (Notice the cake topper in the video!) They were a great couple and we enjoyed filming their wedding and meeting their families. We wish them the best on their marriage.

View their video on our website at SDHDWed.com/083008 or click the image below to view it on Vimeo.

Mayra and Bryan

A Rocking Good Time

In our commitment to blog more this year, I’d like to start posting when we put updates to our website (specifically on our demo reel). Yesterday, I added a link to Charyse & Erik’s wedding that took place at the Hard Rock Hotel in downtown San Diego last August.

Charyse was a gorgeous bride and they really knew how to throw a good party – and the view was spectacular! The bridal party had such great personality and the grand entrance music they chose was the theme song from Friends, I’ll Be There for You. I think they accomplished their goal of not having a typical “San Diego” wedding.

The photography was done by hc.tran photography and it was unbelievable. Be sure to check out the guitar in the highlights to see their talent first hand. You can also view their wedding pictures and slideshow at www.hctphotoblog.com/?p=213. The entertainment of the night was provided by DJ Touch from MyDJ’s and he kept the dance floor hopping all night long!

View Highlights Video

For their highlights video, the music that we used was American Woman by Lenny Kravitz and Yeah by Usher Feat, Lil’ Jon & Ludacris. The HD version doesn’t seem to be coming up on Vimeo, so I’ll have to look into that a bit later today.

San Diego High Definition Weddings Has a New Website!

We just launched our new website at www.sdhdwed.com!!!

It’s been a long time coming and we are thrilled with the design concept that our good friend Rodney Bissell of Bissell Design Studios came up with. (It matches our the theme of our ad in San Diego Style Weddings perfectly.) We still have a ton of videos to post on our demo reel over the next couple of weeks – so keep checking back! Each time we post a new highlights video, we’ll be sure to write a little something-something about it on this blog.

One of our new year’s resolutions was to begin blogging about the business more often. As you can see, we weren’t too good at it last year (the last post was in November). Let’s hope that that is one resolution that we can keep…even if we are starting it a bit late.

We hope you keep checking in to see what we are up to. Thanks for stopping by!

Behind the Scenes of a Wedding Photo-Shoot with ShadowCatcher Imagery!

Click on image above to view the HD video!

Filmed by San Diego High Definiton Weddings on 11-8-08.

We specialize in San Diego Wedding Videos that you will watch over and over again!

Since winning  BEST Videographer 2008 in the 10News Alist contest requests for next year have been staggering.

We are honored and humbled by the response, but at the same time we are not willing to compromise the quality of our product in the pursuit of money.

In order to give you the BEST possible service we are only going to be filming 1 wedding or event per weekend.

This allows us to focus only on your event and start the editing process while your wedding or event details are fresh in our minds.

It also allows us to keep quality and customer service at the forefront of what we do!

Our goal is to provide you with the BEST possible product and experience.

We take this very seriously as it only happens once in a lifetime!

We look forward to working with you and your fiance!

We specialize in San Diego Wedding Videos that you will watch over and over again!

And each and every time you watch it you will fall deeper and deeper in love!

Sincerely,

San Diego High Definition Weddings

San Diego High Definition Wedding’s Podcast on iTunes Store!

Subscribe today to get periodic podcasts of San Diego Wedding Highlight Videos, San Diego NACE Event videos and much, much more!

Click on the link to go to our iTunes podcast page:

http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=295704113

(You do need to have iTunes installed to view this.)

It can be downloaded at:

http://www.apple.com/itunes/

Awesome first dance footage

Starts slow like in junior high then gets crazy!

Enjoy!

http://vimeo.com/2209276

Why is video important?

Note from Kyle:

Yesterday I received a call from a bride’s mother whose wedding we had shot in early August.

I figured it was a typical call of how long until the video is ready, etc… So I checked our post production schedule and had an answer ready for her and thought I was prepared for the phone call. I wasn’t.

The mother told me that the bride and groom were killed a few weeks ago.

I was stunned.

I mean what do you say to a grieving mother?

Regardless, she wanted the video when it was ready and that the groom’s mother also requested her son’s copy.

Of course I said yes and said I was sorry but I felt hollow inside unable to help her in her pain.

As I worked last night I was haunted by the feelings that my job was very trivial and unimportant so I prayed about it and went back to work on it.

As I watched the footage I saw two people in love in the youth and angst of life. They were loving every moment, surrounded by family and drinking in the joy of the day and the celebration of their love for each other.

I suddenly realized that my passion about the importance of video still stood true.

Video is important. Video is very important.

I could hear them talking and laughing and I watched them dance and have a great time.

These memories weren’t gone. They were painful to watch at this moment in time but they were here.

I’m sure the families will get the video and not be able to watch them right away, how could they?

But in a few years or so, my hope is that they can watch the beautiful day and remember their son and daughter the way they were that day, beautiful, happy, and full of love for each other and their families.

That is my fervent hope and prayer for each of their families.