Jerry & Mia
Inside the rotunda, with the ocean showing through the columns. Sound on.
Through the columns.
Jerry and Mia were married at Pelican Hill, and the frame their film keeps returning to is the one taken from inside the rotunda, looking out through the colonnade with the Pacific filling the gaps between the columns.
That structure is the signature of the property and it is genuinely difficult to shoot well. Point the camera the wrong way and it is a pretty building. Point it correctly and it frames the ocean for you.
Notes on the place.
The rotunda at Pelican Hill is a domed, colonnaded pavilion at the end of the oval event lawn, and the trick with it is to stop treating it as a backdrop and start using it as a frame. Standing inside and shooting outward puts hard vertical columns either side of the couple with a hundred and eighty degrees of ocean behind them, which does more for a shot than any amount of open lawn. The light comes through in bands, so exposure has to hold both the shaded stone and the bright water.
Do you film weddings at The Resort at Pelican Hill?
Yes. Jerry and Mia's wedding film was made there, and you can watch it on this site. Having filmed a place once means we already know how it behaves through the day rather than working it out on the morning.
How much does a wedding videographer cost?
Our collections run from $6,000 for The Moment to $10,000 for The Legacy, our most complete collection. Each one is a full cinematic wedding film of your day plus a custom wedding website. Everything is set out on our Collections page.
When do we get our wedding film?
About 8 to 12 weeks for the full film. The Portrait and The Legacy also include a shorter teaser, delivered sooner, so you have something to share while the main edit is still running.
Will we notice you during the day?
Barely. We film the day as it happens rather than staging it, staying close but out of the way. Most couples tell us afterwards that they forgot anyone was filming.