super super 8

Ugh, I hate wedding videos with a passion. Let me just say that before I say anything else. 90% of the time they’re cheesy, boring, self-indulgent and a complete waste of money in my opinion. Back in the spring, in the midst of planning our wedding, all of my favourite wedding porn* was raging about the next big thing – super 8 wedding videos. Everyone including Mrs Onion was doing it – and it looked kind of cool! I wanted one, and convinced the Mr that he did too! I started to look around for some companies, and I found a few based in the UK but they were so ridiculously expensive that they would have eaten up over half of our entire budget. Nevermind I thought, we’ll do it ourself – how hard can it be? We were already doing most of the wedding ourselves (pretty much everything except the catering and the photography was diy-ed) so this would be yet another fun wedding project. Never mind that I have no knowledge of film-making, editing, technical stuff, etc. Oh no. Lack of knowledge didn’t stop me making my wedding dress, did it?!

Andy is too modest to allow me to say how awesome he was on the day. But he was fab! And I hate to think how many hours he then spent editing, mixing and working his magic, especially with all my anal comments about swapping 18:35-18:41 with 18:41-18:47 etc. When we finally received the dvd proof we were just amazed and really quite emotional – he had managed to capture the absolute essence of the day, and even though we adored our photos the video really added something extra special to our memories, and we’ll treasure it for ever.

Anyway, without further ado, may I present…. our wedding!

Vimeo link

*wedding porn – blogs such as weddingbee, stylemepretty and endless others which I’ve now deleted from my google reader and my mind. These have now of course been replaced with craft porn