Simply Interactive Wedding Video "Philosophy"
I try to be as ambiguous as possible when talking or writing about Simply Interactive. I try to use "we" and "our" when discussing what "we" do in "our" company, but the fact is that I started the company and I take a great amount of interest and pride in where it's going and how "we" work with customers.
With that caveat -- I am very specific about what I want from Simply Interactive as a wedding and event video company.
Customer service, customer service, customer service
Ed and Jacque had one of the more beautiful weddings I have ever had the pleasure of shooting. It was held at the Byington Winery in the hills of Los Gatos, a place I highly recommend for weddings under 150 guests.
Ed and Jacque had written their own vows and had very specifically stated how they wanted their ceremony to play out. And while the wedding day was a wholesale success, the officiant, for whatever reason, got to the vows section of the ceremony and blew right through the vows without doing the vows Ed and Jacque had taken the time to design.
Jacque was understandably upset so immediately after the ceremony we kicked everybody off the hill (ok, not really -- we just encouraged them to go grab some hors d'oeuvres) and we redid their vows. My assistant sat off camera and quietly spoke their vows to them and they repeated the vows the way they wanted them in the first place. While that may seem to some to take the punch out of the ceremony and wedding day to some of you, the kiss they shared afterward was so honest it was obvious it meant the world to the two of them.
It's those moments that give me the energy I need to continue to focus my... "our" company on weddings and events rather than strictly corporate videography.
Oh sure, "we" do corporate videos (
here is a sample of one we just did over at The Gap distribution center in Fresno), but we allow those to come in as they come through our normal clients, we don't actively seek them out because weddings are so much more gratifying.
