We hope you all had a wonderful year! Enjoy our annual Christmas video 🙂

Read below for backstory if you’re new here.

We don’t share many personal videos, but once a year we do! Enjoy our FIFTEENTH annual Christmas card video! And if you’re new here, check out our old ones too! (p.s. we are aware we’re super dorks ok)

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

And if you’re still reading, a little backstory: 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. 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 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…So enjoy our silly little tradition!

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Alex and Eric were such a fun couple to work with! We were lucky enough to work with them twice. The pandemic postponed their big ceremony but they wanted to honor their chosen wedding day with an elopement. We posted about that video here. But now we’re finally sharing their big wedding celebration with all their family and friends!

They got married at the beautiful Lake Oak Meadows in Temecula. They gave each other such thoughtful gifts and their personal vows were just so lovely. One really neat personal touch was at the reception. They gave out bottles of their brews since Eric has a brewery, such a great idea!

It was so wonderful seeing these two finally getting married after all this time with all their friends and family. We hope you enjoy!!

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Vendors:

Venue – Lake Oak Meadows

Planner – Tiana Melissa Designs

Photography – XO and Fetti

Film – SidebySide Cinema

Cake – Batter Up Bakery

We love a subtle wedding theme and this wedding was just the perfect example!! Sara and Hugo love books and so they included elements all throughout. Starting with the venue, the Darlington House, they had their first look in the library. Also the cutest first look ever, Hugo was just smitten!

The guest “book” was a library card catalogue where guests would write their well wishes on a card. Each of the tables were their favorite authors and guests could look at the “table of contents” to find their seats.

The day was absolutely beautiful starting with that first look, then enjoying the ceremony at a the beautiful Immaculata, and then the gorgeous decor at the Darlington House again. The flowers and cake were so pretty and they had an artist painting their reception live. They had wonderful speeches and so much fun dancing.

We hope you enjoy this lovely wedding, book end to book end!

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Vendors:

Venue – Darlington House and Immaculata

Planner – Always Flawless Productions

Film – SidebySide Cinema

Photography – My Sun and Stars

Flowers – Moonlight Floral

Dessert – Sweet Cheeks Baking Co

DJ – Alex Guillen Music

Catering – Coast Catering

Hair and Makeup – Beauty by Stacey

If you’ve followed us for a while, you know that we always LOVE getting to work weddings of siblings. We filmed Rosie’s brother and sister-in-law’s wedding a year before (right before the pandemic) and were supposed to do this wedding that same year. It was postponed but we finally got to celebrate a year later. My favorite thing about this is we were able to see Tom and Negin again and see their growing family!

Rosie has a son and Travis has a daughter so it was really special getting to see how they blended their family during the celebration. Their venue was really pretty and made for weddings. Their personal vows were beautiful and they are going to have a lovely life together with their kiddos. They had a super fun party and ended the night so fun by changing into Hawaiian outfits for their exit!

We hope you enjoy these two!

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Vendors:

Venue – Rancho De Las Palmas

Film – SidebySide Cinema

Photography – Shannon Prince

DJ – DJ Ray

Cameron and Mariah had a beautiful small wedding in their parents’ backyard overlooking a beautiful gorge. We absolutely loved their personalized vows, they were so sweet and check out her veil, so lovely and sweet! Everyone was so nice at their event and all the details were just so adorable. We hope you enjoy!

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Location – Private Home

Film – SidebySide Cinema

Photographer – Bryan Koci

DJ – Sound Prodigy

It was so awesome getting to work with Nicole and Luke! We actually filmed her sister’s wedding and her brother’s wedding so it was so great to see everyone’s growing families! We also love working at Villa de Amore, a venue just perfect for weddings. Nicole and Luke had to wait such a long time to finally have their big day and it was just so beautiful. Their outfits are so dapper and I loved that during the cake cutting they did rock paper scissors to decide who would feed the other first. It was so great, something we’ve never seen before. We hope you enjoy this beautiful wedding.

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Vendors:

Venue – Villa de Amore

Film – SidebySide Cinema

DJ – Ross Creations

Photography – Leah Marie Photography

Anna and Max had a beautiful micro wedding last year. Theirs is a perfect example of how having a first look doesn’t limit the emotions during the ceremony. It was so cool to see Max’s face during the ceremony even though he had already seen his bride earlier. This is also a great example of why video is so necessary for big and small weddings! We hope you enjoy this adorable couple.

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