we live to document stuff...

...so that meant we spent a long and arduous journey to find our awesome photographer and videographers. because they had to be just right to our discerning and film-school-degreed eyes. if you can imagine, it went something like this:

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yeah, so the battle was epic, as you might imagine from the illustration above. but don't fret, dear reader, our journey was successful, and we returned victorious, procuring some wonderful and talented people for our wedding.

BEHOLD!

so who is this conjurer with a camera? it is Brandon Kidd, of Brandon Kidd Photography and he is magic, people. go to his website, or his blog and experience the spellbinding nature of his work. plus: he is nice. like super nice and i imagine that we'll have great fun running around being silly on our wedding day. plus, he hooked us up with our fab coordinator, Nancy, who will get her own post at some point before we're married.

ok, one more:this may or may not have been the photo that sealed the deal for me. would you look at that freakin' light!?!?

so okay. we have a kick-ass photographer. now we need an equally awesome videographer to match him...

OBSERVE!

what's that you say? oh, here, try another one...huh, it's still grainy and slightly out of focus? well, that's because it was shot in Super8mm film! that's right people, no need to adjust your television set because this is not from the 70s. (acutally, it's straight out of awesometown. don't believe me? go here.)

the lovely people behind these two cool shots that i snagged from their site is Modern8Films, or Ted and Alanna, as they are individually referred. anyways, we love them and we love 8mm film so they were a perfect match. run, don't walk to their website and watch all that grainy goodness unfold.

so. a tired casey and janine finally booked them both for our wedding and they are ours now and we are happy. we are less happy about things like flowers or shoes, but i suspect we'll get over that soon.