We mentioned recently that there are a few weddings that we can’t show any visual evidence of due to some strict privacy concerns.

Well, this past weekend, Feria Cinematic Imagery was the official cinematographer for Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam’s daughter’s wedding. It was a two-day affair at the Governor’s Residence and the Belle Meade Country Club.

It rained for a portion of the day, but, cleared up plenty for the beautiful ceremony. The reception was fantastic—huge dancefloor was filled with hundreds of guests, a huge, lavish reception tent with antler chandeliers, with a fire pit for s’mores and cornhole games outside.

We even became friends with the Secret Service men over the weekend. Maybe, someday our wedding film might be seen—not likely. Too bad, or else you’ll see the Governor getting DOWN on the dancefloor and his first lady singing tunes with the band.

A career highlight for now for sure.

A quick preview of Ellie and Nick’s upcoming story. A couple who are as opposite as yin and yang but enjoy life through music, dance, food and the outdoors.

Look for a sample of their story in the highlight video coming soon!

We loved the footage so much from their wedding ceremony we had to create another highlight video showing them off! What a great couple to work with!

When Bobby told me how disappointed he was that the annual 48hr Film Festival was moving to a different weekend this year, landing on the same days as our latest wedding, I was really bummed for him because I know that’s something he really enjoys doing every year. And his team, Fighting with Forks, is pretty good at what they do, having notched the BEST FILM for 2009 with their Now You’re Being Ridiculous

Well, this year Seth & Brianna’s Nashville wedding was held at Scarritt Bennett Center downtown on the first day of the event, and Bobby had to take a limited role. Well, he TOLD me was going to take a limited role with the team.

Little did I know, he ended up shooting Seth & Brianna’s gorgeous event which ended at 10:30[pm], then immediately running over to join the FWF team and taking over the reins as editor. Having only 48 hrs to conceptualize, shoot, edit and deliver the film on DVD, Bobby worked through the night and morning putting the film together into what you see here (totaling 40 hours straight without sleep!)

For their effort, The Department of Thoughts and Intentions was just honored as runner up BEST FILM, but took top billing for Directing, Cinematography, Graphics and Bobby’s portion—EDITING!

A gigantic part of what makes the modern cinematic wedding work that Feria Cinematic Imagery puts out is the amazing editing work that Bobby does after all the shooting is completed. So, I’m really blessed to work with him on the FERIA team.

King’s to you, Marko.

P.S. First person to know that last movie reference and comments on it wins….um, something.

A little late posting about this but two weeks ago we had the privilege of finally meeting Kara and Jake in person to shoot their pre-wedding story. Even though their from Jackson, Mississippi they made the trek to Nashville to take advantage of the scenery and variety of locations. A couple of the places we shot at were the Nashville Farmer’s Market and Cannery Row.

Can’t wait till we shoot their wedding day in May in Jackson. Kara and Jake are an amazing couple and fun to work with. Below are some screen shots from the footage we captured.

The Feria team dedicated some time to renovating our Nashville meeting room next to our studio. In the chaos of wedding shows, client meetings, shooting and editing, we were able to scrounge some time up to get some frames up, a flat panel LCD TV and some new lighting. We though we’d upload some images to share. We already broke it in with our now newest client, Brittnay and Trenton. We are excited for their engagement and look forward to getting to know them and tell their story.