We are thrilled that our recent creative shoot for Red Floral Architecture with Chris Hanley Photography is featured today on one of the UK’s top wedding blogs; Rock n’ Roll Bride. When Mat from Red Floral Architecture submitted the shoot to Kat from Rock n’ Roll Bride she said:

“oh. my. god…. i am SO IN LOVE with that video. i love that song too but the lambs…ahhh everything is just ace. youre right. totally right for my blog I would love to feature them”.

Check out the full Rock n’ Roll Bride post click here.

To read our full write up of the shoot and credits for everyone involved, see our previous ‘love heart blog’ post. Sx

This year we have had the honour of being invited to be part of some amazing creative shoots, which is a fantastic opportunity to showcase our skills outside wedding films and they are always really interesting to work on. They are all very different from each other and offer different experiences, from the opportunity to work with people we admire within the industry, to pushing ourselves creatively and sometimes stepping out of our comfort zone (remember the crazy one with the lambs, more on that one soon!).

Anyway, when County Bride’s Best Wedding Planner 2011 and the 2012 Wedding Industry Award winner for the North West and finalist in the National Awards, Andrea from Fabulous Day, along with Caroline White Photography conceived a creative shoot to showcase the newly refurbished National Trust property of Chirk Castle in Wrexham we jumped at the opportunity to creative a ‘behind the scenes’ record of the day for them. The day was spilt into two themed shoots, the first half; glam fairytale meets cool Britannia and the second part a decadent Indian summer inspired look. As usual there was a massive creative team that came together to produce what you see below. For the full credits of everyone invovled please see the list at the end of the post.

We produced a ‘behind the scenes’ for both parts and a stand alone film for Chirk Castle to promote their wedding business. Here is Part 1 of the shoot.

Both shoots are being featured on brilliant Brides Up North wedding blog, to see the full post for Part 1, please click here.

Here are a few of the photographs by Caroline White Photography.

Credits:

Film: Marry Me Films
Planning & Styling: Fabulous Day
Photography: Caroline White Photography
Location: Chirk Castle
Dresses: Boda Bridal
Accessories: Rocks for Frocks
Hair & makeup: Lizzie Griffiths
Flowers: Frog
Stationery: Pink Sherbet Designs
Cupcakes: Cupcake Revolution
Pastries: Rupert Frazer Worden
Owls: Flying the Knot
Tent: Raj Tent Club

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As soon as we met Jess & Wes’ we knew that we were in for an action packed day at Peckforton Castle! Jess & Wes didn’t want any of their guests to get bored, so they meticulous planned a programme of entertainment throughout the whole day and night.

To kick the day off while Jess quietly got ready in the Castle’s Tranquility Spa, Wes arrived in style by helicopter, which landed right inside the Castle walls, much to the delight of their waiting guests who were being entertained by a Jester. It was also another day of seeing double, like the last wedding we filmed at Peckforton Castle; Sue & Geoff’s. Jess is a twin and Wes’ sisters are also twins! The ceremony was very emotional, Jess’ twin cried while walking down the aisle and Wes was overcome with emotion while trying to say his vows, which was really sweet. He soon reverted to his larger than life personality, laughing at his bird phobic best man having to handle the owl that flew down the aisle to delivery the rings. They left the Great Hall in a shower of confetti which looked wonderful.

Birds were a big part of the day, after the owl at the ceremony, the bridal party released white doves. Unfortunately I don’t think the bridesmaid felt too lucky when she had to wash the dove poo off her dress. During the drinks reception the guest were treated to the fabulous falconry display and more juggling fun from the Jester. During the wedding breakfast a magician wowed the guests and they were surprised by a brilliant and hilarious performance by the Singing Waiters, who pretended to be staff and then in an amusing comedy routine started to sing, all the guests loved it and got in on the act.

After the wedding breakfast the guest were entertained by a swing singer, fun casino and caricaturist and they could also leave novel guests messages on an old fashion type writer. Funnily quite a few of the guests didn’t know how to use it, while filming them I had to stop a few times to show them how to use it, how old did that make me feel! We also captured video messages from all the guests too.

The evening entertainment was kicked started by four fantastic Las Vegas style show girls, complete with huge feather headdresses and wings in tiny jewelled leotards. After the showgirls set and once the floor had been cleared of discarded feathers from the vigorous routine, Jess & Wes cut the cake. Like everything else at this wedding the cake was spectacular. In fact earlier in the day, a film crew from a Sky came to film it for a cake documentary. I’m not sure of the exact height, but it was huge, with an actual water fountain at it’s base topped off with a rotating Castle. The evening continued with dancing then a performance from the Funky Monks band. The evening ended with a fire display outside with the Castle all lit up with purple, the colour scheme from the day.

As predicted there wasn’t a dull moment and Jess & Wes laughed, sang, danced and cried (tears of joy) their way through an amazing day!

Here are few still taken from Jess & Wes’ wedding film.

We really hope you enjoyed Jess & Wes’ wedding film highlights trailer, to check out more of our work please visit our Marry Me Films website or our Marry Me Films Vimeo page. To keep up with our latest news ‘like’ our Marry Me Films Facebook page and ‘follow’ us on our Marry Me Films Twitter page.

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The promo film we produced for No. 9 Bridal Couture and the ‘behind the scenes’ film from the shoot with Chris Hanley Photography have been featured on Hello! Magazine Online.

To see the promo film and full credit for everyone involved in the shoot check out this blog post. To see the ‘behind the scenes’ film check out the blog post.

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As you may know during the week Tony films for broadcast programmes and does some corporate work, but we don’t often get the chance under the Marry Me Films umbrella to do anything commercial. So it was a welcome change to be asked to produce a short ‘advert’ promo film for Midas Diamonds of Kings Street in Manchester. Below is the short promotional film for their website and to be screened in their showroom.

Our business associates Chris Hanley Photography took the stills at the same time, to see his blingtastic images check out his blog post.

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You may have seen yesterday our blog post about the short ‘advert’ promo we produced for the award winning No. 9 Bridal Couture. Here is the ‘behind the scenes’ film from the shoot. A massive thank you to everyone involved for your patience with us filming the goings on while trying to do your jobs, brilliantly well I might add! So sit back and watch Linda, Chris, Claire, Jo, Kizzy, Jane, Allison, Sam, Jessica, Ioan, Ellen, Nicola and Lyndsey at work!

To see more of the images from the shoot from Chris Hanley Photography check out his blog post. For the full credits of everyone involved in the shoot check out our previous love heart blog post.

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After yesterday’s pushing the boundaries creative shoot blog post, today time for something completely different. An elegant, sophisticated, classic and simply beautiful ‘advert’ promo for the fabulous No. 9 Bridal Couture.

No. 9 Bridal Couture recently won the Wedding Industry Awards 2012 – Best Wedding Dress Designer for the UK and North East award, a massive achievement and honour. Read all about Linda’s journey in her blog post. To celebrate this milestone, Linda commissioned a shoot to showcase her dresses. The brief for the shoot was simple; to capture No. 9 Bridal Couture’s ethos, which is perfectly epitomised in this quote by Edith Head:

“Be sure it doesn’t look like something you can buy in a store….
Be sure people will gasp when they see it!”

The shoot took place at Sutton Park in Yorkshire. Chris Hanley Photography (who else) directed the shoot and as always created amazing images. We love the genuinely lovely and extremely talented hair and makeup artists Kizzy Edkins and Jo Bilham, who created both classic bridal beauty looks and edgy modern fashion looks. The gorgeous bespoke tiaras and wedding jewellery were supplied by HF Couture and jewels by Midas Diamonds. Delicious macaroons (I know I tasted one) were supplied by Just darling Cakes.

This shoot was a pleasure to work on, not only was everyone super enthusiastic and professional but everyone pulled together to produce something extra special, we are really proud to have been a apart of it.

This is one of two films from the shoot, a ‘behind the scenes’ film is to follow shortly on the blog.

To see more of Chris Hanley Photography‘s beautiful shots from the shoot check out his blog post.

Credits:

Filming: Marry Me Films
Photography: Chris Hanley Photography
Dresses: No. 9 Bridal Couture
Makeup: Jo Bilham
Hair: Charisma Hairdressing
Accessories: HF Couture
Diamonds: Midas Diamonds
Macaroons: Just Darling Cakes
Location: Sutton Park
Venue Co-ordinators: The Wedding Affair
Anyone who is interested in getting married at this lovely venue, please contact The Wedding Affair via this email address: suttonpark@theweddingaffair.co.uk

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We love doing creative shoots and we have been very fortunate recently to be involved in some amazing projects, but when we got an email from the uber talented Mat of Red Floral Architecture our pulses quickened. We knew as soon as Mat was getting a team together that this would be no ordinary shoot. Mat isn’t afraid to push boundaries and experiment, he is known as an innovator and is frequently copied within the industry. We love his very dry dark sense of humor and his floral designs have to be seen to be believed, he is AMAZING!

His initial brief went along these lines ““…..I will be creating a very blossom orientated scene with chandeliers falling from the branches of trees adorned with flowers; under this will be a full luxury dressed table. I have always had a vision of an al fresco bridal b***h fight, brides pulling at each other’s hair in a kind of female wrestle…. I have images of bouquets being ripped apart and brides vomiting up rose petals with f****d up make up.” This quickly spiralled to even darker places, but how could we not fail to be excited. The man is a creative genius, plus he brought two 4 day old lambs to the shoot too, which I got to feed, I was very overexcited!

So on a very wet Easter bank holiday Monday we all went to the very accommodating and fabulous house of Ann McKavney, designer at Eleventh Heaven, the unashamedly extravagant jewellery featured in the shoot. Her whole family and especially her husband Moz made the whole shoot even slightly possible. Mat produced a stunning display in the genre of ‘romantic glamour’. We were chuffed once again to be working alongside our very good friend, talented and highly regarded photographer Chris Hanley. Check out his blog post, the images are exceptional as always. The beautiful and not so beautiful (you will see what I mean once you have watched the film) hair and makeup looks were created by the lovely Phoebe and Amy of Flossy & Leigh makeup artist company. The wedding dresses were provided by Charlotte Balbier and the models were so great and really got into character, at little too easily some might say!

I just hope we did Mat’s vision justice, we were seriously hampered by the torrential rain which really affected what we could realistically and actually achieve. A lot of ideas had to be reigned in due to the terrible conditions, but we couldn’t shoot at any other time, besides the lambs weren’t getting any younger! Please note that no lambs, models or dresses were harmed (well not much anyway) in the making of this film. This film isn’t your usual bridal shoot, there is nothing normal or average about it. Sometimes you just have to shake things up and do something different just because you can, but that is why we love it, hope you do too.

Credits:

Filming: Marry Me Films
Photography: Chris Hanley Photography
Floral Art: Red Floral Architecture
Accessories: Eleventh Heaven
Hair & Makeup: Flossy & Leigh
Dresses: Charlotte Balbier

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The recent creative shoot we did for Vintage Twee and Nia Fiori with Chris Hanley Photography has been featured on the fabulous English Wedding Blog, click here to read the full blog post and to see the cool and quirky promotional film we created for them.

Click here to see our ‘love heart blog’ post all about the shoot.

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Lisa & Dan chose to have a small intimate ‘weekend’ wedding at the picturesque Broadoaks Country House Hotel, on the hillside of Lake Windermere, in the Lake District. All the guests arrived on the Friday afternoon and were greeted with hand written notes in their rooms from Lisa & Dan welcoming them to their wedding, which was a really lovely and special touch. That night there was an American style rehearsal dinner so everyone could get to know each other, then a quiz with a special Mr & Mrs round with questions about Lisa & Dan.
The day of the wedding started in typical Lake District fashion with pouring rain. The staff assured us that by lunch time there would be glorious sunshine. The rain didn’t put a dampener on the morning, Dan and the guests started with a traditional hearty Cumbrian breakfast then clay pigeon shooting over the valley, while Lisa and the bridesmaids got ready. Dan must have been practicing as he hit all his targets.
Just in time for Lisa’s arrival the sun broke through the clouds. The Music room designed by William Morris was bathed in beautiful spring sunlight. Lisa & Dan wanted to make their ceremony even more memorable and special by reciting their own personal vows. When it came time, Dan got his cards out and Lisa asked where her cards where…….Dan had forgotten them! Luckily Lisa saw the funny side and broke out laughing. The register saved Dan’s marriage by producing a copy of Lisa’s vows. You can see in the stills lower down the exact moment and Lisa’s reaction, absolutely priceless. The rest of the ceremony went without a hitch. They are such an affectionate and fun couple who laughed and kissed all day and looked very much in love.
The speeches were hilarious, Lisa’s dad was mercilessly heckled which made his speech even funnier as he turned it around and joined in with the jokes. Dan’s best man returned the favour from his wedding a couple of years ago, by ritually humiliating Dan with childhood photos and by reading out loud a text Dan had sent to Lisa the night after they met, much to Dan’s embarrassment, everyone loved it! Then it was on to the evening reception were Lisa & Dan did a ‘Dirty Dancing’ inspired jump half way through the first dance! The band got everyone going and the evening ended with releasing Chinese lanterns over the mountains. It was a beautiful, fun filled day.

Here are few still taken from Lisa & Dan’s wedding film.

We really hope you enjoyed Lisa & Dan’s wedding film highlights trailer, to check out more of our work please visit our Marry Me Films website or our Marry Me Films Vimeo page. To keep up with our latest news ‘like’ our Marry Me Films Facebook page and ‘follow’ us on our Marry Me Films Twitter page.

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