Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from SidebySide Cinema’s family!!! We’ve had a whirlwind 2025, life just keeps getting busier somehow and we were honestly so surprised with how quickly this year flew by. I can’t even sum up this year, it was a little bit of everything, definitely full! We are still filming weddings (I will catch up on sharing those someday), and we’re doing a lot with our sister company Scattered Light Media. We’re mostly busy with all the kids activities and we wouldn’t have it any other way. We took a big trip last month and this video ended up being VERY last minute…wait I say that every year? Yeah, that sounds about right. But hey, at least we got it done, it’s tradition after all! Enjoy our Hallmark Christmas Card this year!

Check out our previous years!! 

2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2012 bloopers, 2011, 2011 bloopers, 2010, 2009, 2008 & 2007

Wow, we’ve been so busy with life lately that we’ve gotten a little behind on sharing beautiful wedding films!! Don’t worry, we’re still here, and we’re still telling stories! And we hope to tell yours one day 🙂

Jacqueline and Kyle had a beautiful summer wedding at Faulker Winery with beautiful purples and colors that just popped! I loved her first look with her bridesmaides, so cute! I also loved Kyle’s pin, such a clever way to memorialize a loved one.

Winery weddings allow for really fun photo time among the vines and the green and purples just looked lovely together.

The evening culminated in fun dancing, s’more roasting and the guests enjoyed a fun cake with donuts on it!

We hope you enjoy!

Vendors:

Venue – Faulkner Winery

Video – SidebySide Cinema

Photography – Jamie Davis Photo

We had the pleasure of working with Nicole’s cousins filming their weddings in years past. So we were thrilled when they reached out to work with us as well! They had their wedding in such a cool spot, in the mountains at Serendipity Gardens.

It’s a perfect little venue for weddings with the getting ready suites, beautiful views for the ceremony and an awesome area for eating and dancing. We really enjoyed getting to see some of our past couples throughout the day and everyone was just so nice!

As you’ll see, the wedding was so fun and I loved all the flowers and details. Hope you enjoy!!

Vendors:

Venue – Serendipity Garden Weddings

Film – SidebySide Cinema

Photography – Gee Sennett Photography

Oh man, we’ve been busy both working and having intentional family time during the holidays. We hope that you and your families did the same! Congratulations to all you out there who got engaged during this time, yay! Happy planning and we hope that our blog will give you some fun videos to watch for inspiration. We’ve filmed some very creative weddings and moments over the years and it’s so fun to share them.

For now, here’s a snippet of some of the celebrations we got to be a part of last year, enjoy! Many more blog posts to come, stay tuned 🙂

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from your friendly neighborhood videographers! Enjoy our silly tradition and once a year personal video that we share. All 18 years we’ve been together 🙂 This year was Olympic inspired and we even let the kids try their hand at some improv for the interview bits. Hope you enjoy!

Check out our previous years!! 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2012 bloopers, 2011, 2011 bloopers, 2010, 2009, 2008 & 2007

And here’s the story behind the tradition: We got married November 2007 so by the time we got back from our honeymoon and moving and all the wedding/marriage things, we just didn’t even think about Christmas cards that first year. So in the 11th hour, literally on Christmas Eve, we thought of making that very first video as our Christmas card. It took no time at all and it was just silly. Then we said to ourselves, “we should do this every year!” And then we did! They have clearly gotten more involved over the years and we’ve included our kids and animals but they are no more well planned. We always have a whole year to figure out an idea and every single time we wait until the last minute (maybe next year we’ll plan better…maybe)…So enjoy our silly little tradition (last minute as usual)…

We hope that you all have a wonderful year in 2025, and we hope to see you soon!

Wow, the details at this wedding were just amazing!!! Abby and Robby had a wonderful celebration at her parents’ home. She wore two different dresses through the day, they had flowers floating in the pool, adorable homemade gifts of two different kinds of salsa for each and every guest, and the cutest little fox cake toppers! All the personal touches were just so thought out and meaningful.

They had a sweet first look and the ceremony vows were just so great and their officiant quoted Mr. Rogers in the sweetest way. The party at the end was so fun ending in everyone taking fireball shots.

We hope you enjoy!

Vendors:

Planner and Florist – I Do…Weddings

Videographer – SidebySide Cinema

Photography – Vacay Photo

DJ – DJ Rob

Cake – Jenny Wenny and VG Donut

Ailanna had the most fun 18th birthday party with her friends and family! They had the event at the US Grant in downtown San Diego. She had a breathtaking dress and looked like a princess. She’s a dancer, so all the dances seemed professionally done. Hope you enjoy this awesome celebration!