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We are beyond grateful for our incredible videography team! From the very first calls and communication leading up to the wedding, the process was smooth and professional. On the d...
ay of, the filmmakers were so kind and made us feel completely comfortable in front of the camera. After the wedding, the team even reached out to incorporate some pretty special photos into our video—such a meaningful detail that just went above and beyond. Just two months later, they delivered the most breathtaking videos—we are absolutely blown away. We’ve watched them every single day, crying, smiling, and reliving our favorite moments all over again. Truly one of the best decision we made for our wedding was hiring LEAP!
We didn’t think we wanted or needed a wedding video. We’re awkward on camera; we didn’t think we’d actually want to see ourselves moving in action. We didn’t value videos like we v...
alue photos of us together over the years. That changed when I came across LEAP. I watched one video from LEAP and I still remember the feeling I had…I was shocked. I felt like I was watching an episode of a new wedding TV series. Only the good parts, no drama of course ;). I knew they were different from anything we had seen before. I was particularly drawn to their videos labeled “The Principal Experience” on YouTube. They had such a unique style and you could see the complete dedication to telling the couples love story in the most authentic way; through the words of the couple and their loved ones. Even their “trailer” interpretation was unique in that it was a nice summary of the evening and not your typical “wedding day trailer.” You know what I mean if you’ve looked around. No cheesy 2 minute video with slow music and even slower walking. Just authentic storytelling with natural sound bites mixed in with the background music. We knew we had to go with them and after looking things over, we decided on the “Principal Package.” This included elements from all the lower level packages but included a narrative filming of the couple, family, and friends. Not only did we get an amazing video including those interviews, but we got beautifully edited videos of the ceremony and reception. The quality was unreal. They made sure to get multiple angles of things like the speeches so that our reaction to the speeches were included at the perfect time. All three works of film were so carefully edited and cut and we can tell they took their time making sure that we were given a cohesive and unforgettable complete package. The music selection, the transitions, and just everything about the complete work was amazing. Everyone who worked on it (editor Roxanne and creative director Becky) made sure to deliver something special. We have a newfound appreciation for videography and the work that goes into creating. We can confidently say, no other company would have provided us with what they did. They made us feel comfortable around them, and were patient with us in every way. Joshua made sure to call us before the wedding and took his time getting to know us. He really enjoys what he does and we ended up being on the phone for an hour just laughing about our relationship over the years. The flow of the day was awesome thanks to Joshua, Luis, and Cesar working so well together. They are so much more than your typical wedding day videographers. They are family heirloom creators; they give you something that you’ll watch over and over again for generations to come. It feels like we have the most touching love letter written simultaneously by the most important people in our lives, but it’s captured on film. It is a serotonin booster that we, our families, and friends cherish so much already. They were worth every penny and more. Bailey communicated thoroughly and was always prompt with responses to emails. They were so flexible to work with, considering we had to change our wedding date due to the pandemic. We spent 2+ years emailing back and forth and they made the process as easy as possible. I would absolutely work with them again and again and recommend them to anyone who will listen! Thank you so much, LEAP! We are forever grateful for your part in our special day.
I wish I could give a 10-star rating!! LEAP was truly amazing and exceeded all of our expectations with their video coverage and compilation of our big day this past April 2022! Th...
ey are willing to customize their video coverage experience to fit your specific and personalized needs and vision of the big day. We didn't want anything too cheesy, and they knew exactly how to customize to create a wedding video that was so perfectly fit to us as a couple and all the excitement, love and fun of the big day. The sound and video quality is the best of the best and I cannot thank them enough for all they captured and for making the best wedding video ever!
What an absolute delight it was to have Grayson work with us throughout our big day. He was so fun and worked flawlessly with the photographer. His shots were innovative and it w...
as fun to see him see a shot and get us into position without skipping a beat. We can't recommend Leap and Grayson enough!
LEAP was very responsive and accomodating when we had to change our wedding date dur to COVID. Bailey usually answered emails within hours! Both videographers with us all day did a...
great job of capturing important moments and the candid ones. And they had fun ideas for posed photos and action shots! I was on the fence about spending money on a videographer, but I'm very glad we did. We barely even noticed them during all the festivities, and now we can go back and relive the most amazing day!
We have no words...our video is EVERYTHING!!! Our wedding video is more amazing than I could have ever imagined! I keep watching it over and over and every time I am overwhelmed wi...
th all the excitement and emotions of the day! This video is perfect and will let us relive this day forever! I do not think we could thank the whole Leap Team enough for being apart of our day, for capturing all these moments, and for creating the most special video. Josh and Kyle were so easy and fun to work with on the wedding day and they captured every moment so perfectly. I am in awe of the work the whole Leap team has done!
OMG Leap weddings made a movie of our love story. It was so much more than a wedding video. This is the most amazing wedding gift we could have for ourselves. I can't recommend the...
m strongly enough. My husband and I have watched it at least 100 times and with anyone and everyone who will watch it with us. I still can't make it through the video without crying. Even my father said "what ever you paid for that video, it was worth every penny". One of my Hollywood friends said " I have seen a lot of wedding videos in my lifetime as a stylist, and this film is Oscar worthy".
Thank you Ben, Josh, Jordan and Becky for this amazing capture of our wedding day and our love story. We will enjoy this for the rest of our lives and are so grateful to you.
We hired Braxton Black to photograph our wedding on 11/17/18 and couldn’t be happier with our decision. At our first initial meeting, we were impressed with Braxton’s experience an...
d attention to detail. For example, he mentioned what time the sun sets at the time of year we were getting married and how we can keep that in mind while planning the day. We had Braxton do our engagement photos about 9 months before our wedding day and after seeing our photos, we couldn’t wait to see the final product from our actual wedding day.
The day of our wedding, Braxton was extremely punctual, flexible and genuinely excited to be there. We were very comfortable around him which is something that is key with a photographer especially when you aren’t accustomed to have a professional photographer photograph you. My bridesmaids, day of coordinator, and family all gave us numerous compliments about Braxton. We were very thankful he was able to capture these important moments in our life. Thanks Braxton!
I cannot recommend Leap Weddings enough. As the groom, I questioned just how important it was to have video of our big day, but it was THE most important vendor we hired. I was blo...
wn away by the way highlight video they put together for us. It's truly something we will cherish forever!
Leap Weddings is the best wedding videography company in Chicago!! We were so thrilled to have them capture our big day. The crew was so great to work with and added to the excitem...
ent of getting ready at the hotel. Ben and Joshua are absolutely the best! We cannot recommend them enough!
Mike and I chose LEAP Weddings through a recommendation of our wedding planner and they did NOT disappoint! This team is incredibly responsive, professional and made us feel at eas...
e throughout the entire wedding process. They completely picked up on the vibes that we were going for, and have now given us a video we will cherish forever.
On the wedding day, the team team was AMAZING! They had us laughing and brought such a positive happy vibe with them. They were never in the way or pushy, yet managed to seamlessly capture incredible content. They worked with our planner to make the day run very smoothly, and were incredibly nice to everyone throughout the whole process. The video they have provided us is extremely authentic, fun, emotional, and engaging. You can tell that this team makes every video to be tailored to the couple in a very unique way. We HIGHLY recommend LEAP Weddings Videography team!
I've known Ben and the good people at Leap weddings since I started in the beauty side of weddings 10 years ago. Both myself and my husband have grown to love and adore Ben Mahoney...
, not just for his vivacious personality but for his outstanding level of skill and talent in videography. We initially started looking at videographers in the Pacific Northwest and we quickly found that none lived up to our expectations. (My husband is in the film industry) We then knew it was time to shoot Ben an email and see what their schedule was like for our wedding. Luckily we booked him and his wonderful assistant Simeon (who flew directly from out of the country to Oregon and still KILLED it) to come out and shoot.
The difference between Leap Weddings and every other video team you will find is that they make your wedding into a movie while providing an amazing set of personalities. The family interviews, drone shots, and detail coverage. They organize it all to make the event just as special (if not more) than you actually remember it. It is one of our favorite (if not THE favorite) things about the wedding, next to actually getting married. :P
Hands down, best people to have documenting your day and you will end up with some new, wonderful friends out of the deal as well.
LEAP Weddings has a way of capturing your love story and the day of your wedding and weaving it into a cohesive, beautiful cinematic video that you will cherish for the rest of you...
r life. They go above and beyond just capturing your wedding. They are the best in the business and are worth every penny. Our videographers Josh and Nick were so easy to work and got amazing video. Stephanie, edited our video to really show our love story and what our wedding day felt and looked like. Amazing since we never met her! Becky was so easy to work with in this process! We could not be more happy or thankful we went with LEAP!
5 stars is not enough. Can we give them 10???
We had Jack and Eric as our videographers. They were patient - meeting with us, talking through everything, hearing what we liked or ...
didn't like from other Leap videos we saw online. They were unobtrusive the day of the wedding - catching all the right moments without taking over the scene or stumbling into the shots our photographer was taking. And the end result was FABULOUS!!!! Exactly what we were looking for. Captured the essence of the day and key moments from getting ready activities and speeches. We just loved working with them and loved their final product. They were GREAT.
Cannot recommend them enough!!!!
LEAP Weddings is the wedding videographer to hire! We have nothing but great things to say about them. Our wedding was filmed by Jack, Eric, and Christian and all of them were simp...
ly the best. Everyone on the team was a pleasure to work with and the finished product is absolutely incredible! We just received our video which was edited by Steph (who is also amazing!) and definitely had happy tears because it really is just the best wedding video we have ever seen. They have a unique and creative style which we love. We are obviously biased but the feedback we are receiving from our friends and family shows that LEAP Weddings is a company with very talented people and is in a class of their own! They did a great job capturing all the special moments on our wedding day. They were all very professional and worked very well with all of our other vendors. Also, they are just cool people! They made us smile and laugh quite a few times. Thank you LEAP for allowing us to relive our special day through our gorgeous video all over again. We highly recommend choosing them for your wedding videographer!
Josh, Cesar, Christian and the entire LEAP Weddings team are creative geniuses and brilliant to work with. My wife and I met Josh, Ben, and the entire LEAP Weddings crew at Ovation...
’s Grand Opening way back in December of 2014. Although we weren’t initially sure if we had room in the wedding budget for videography, after only a few minutes, we were effortlessly chatting it up with the incredibly engaging team and began to realize that LEAP Weddings is just awesome. When we got home from the Grand Opening event we must have watched over a dozen cinematic summaries of happy couples getting hitched courtesy of LEAP Weddings’ Vimeo page. After each video, we felt like we now knew this random couple and were both emotionally moved by the sentiment captured and energized by the excitement of their wedding day. We made sure to do some competitive research, but in short order we decided that we had to lock it down with LEAP for our big day.
We just received our short artistic film yesterday and have already watched it 5 or 6 times in succession; each time noticing something new that we hadn’t seen or had forgotten about in the chaos of the day. They incorporate these documentary-type interviews of your family and friends that bring so much depth, emotion and character to the video. On top of that, they piece the day together in a way that flows so effortlessly. Josh, Cesar, and Christian absolutely busted their butts to get gorgeous shots of all the milestones and minutia of the day and the editor, Becky, somehow managed to take hours of raw film and craft it into an epic cinematic adventure. She made our awkward nervousness seem charming, our inside jokes have context, our bad side look good and most importantly of all, she uniquely highlighted the love and happiness we felt on our wedding day.
The LEAP Weddings team is charismatic, professional and so easy to work with. Their product is unparalleled in style and quality. If you're looking for a creative film that will truly capture your special day, we highly recommend LEAP Weddings!
Leap Weddings exceeded my obscenely high expectations in every way.
If you are reading these reviews because you can’t decide if you need a videographer, you do. You need a v...
ideographer and it needs to be Leap Weddings. Anyone else would be a waste of money. The last thing you want is regret and a “wish we would’ve” situation, so cut costs where you can, but not when it comes to the video.
Having majored in film in college, our wedding video was a top priority. I have known Leap Weddings is the best in the business for years, so upon getting engaged my first step was to ensure Leap would be available.
I live in Colorado so there was a little more coordination and cost and people suggested I should consider a local company. NOT. AN. OPTION. No matter where you get married, you need Leap there.
I have literally watched every video that Leap Weddings has done. I am a huge fan. So there was no doubt the video would be great but I will say there was a little fear that it wouldn’t be the same when it was me or that I would be embarrassed or something. Not the case. To see myself as a bride, to see my husband the morning of our wedding day, to relive the emotion on that day is immeasurable.
Every time we watch the video with people everyone cries and hugs when it is over because you feel the love and emotion of the day all over again. People who were unable to make it are able to experience the event. Our children and grandchildren will be able to watch and share in our wedding day for years to come.
Besides the superior quality of the video is the experience of working with the Leap crew. Each and every one of them is fun, sincere, and amazingly talented. I wrote individual thank you letters to the Leap team far before seeing the video just to thank them for being such a special part of our day. Think about this: these people are with you and your friends and family on a very important day, in some extremely intimate moments. That could get weird. I have seen wedding videographers makes things uncomfortable or take control of the moment in order to “get the right shot”. That dampers the mood and is not what you want. Ben and Josh will forever hold a special place in my heart because they were by our side on such an important day and then they gave us the most priceless gift of being able to relive it over and over in the most extraordinary way.
We initially weren't considering having a videographer at our wedding due to the cost and preconceived notion that the final product would just be a cheesy, unoriginal video. Fortu...
nately, around the same time that we received some advice to splurge and go for it, we also found Leap's website and watched some of the films from previous weddings. Leap Weddings totally changed our perception of what a modern wedding videographer could do, and we're really happy with everything they did for us!
From beginning to end, the team was a pleasure to work with. They displayed consistent professionalism while immediately feeling like old friends or family thanks to their laid back and easygoing nature. They blended into the day seamlessly and made everyone feel at ease behind the camera. Most importantly, they took all of the special moments from the day and created an incredible film that we will always treasure. To anyone considering videography, we'd strongly recommend talking to Leap!
I haven't even seen our final product yet but they are amazing! Ben and Josh were awesome to work with and really added to our special day. I had a hard time at first with the co...
st but I have been obsessed with them for a while and the product they put out is unparalleled. Just bite the bullet and hire them!
After we settled with the Photographer, we reviewed how over budget we were at this point, and my wife wanted to cut the videographer. I kept insisting we need it to record the ce...
remony. Thank God, I won this battle! Through the whole affair, my wife and daughter (the bride) had the time of their lives with Ben. They both talk about him all the time. He immediately fit right in to complete our awesome wedding ensemble. We shared a multitude of laughs and at the end of the evening, a few drinks. Ben is professional, enthusiastic and very creative. He sent samples throughout the day that we’re awesome, sparked our interest and quickly became my daughter’s new FB cover photo. We can’t wait to see the final product! You were awesome Ben, thank you!
There is a reason why Leap Weddings is rated as highly as it is. And you should sit up and take notice. Throughout our wedding planning my husband didn't want a video camera anyw...
here near the event. And I have to say I agreed 100% at first..... Then as we got closer and closer to the big day, I realized it was going to be really important to me to document and memorialize our wedding ceremony. I want to be able to pop in the DVD 50 years from now and take a walk down memory lane including hearing my husbands voice and seeing my friends and family in the audience. It is a special day and since you can't go back in time and relive those moments, this was going to be the next best thing. So after much conversation we agreed that documenting the ceremony would only be a possibility if (of course last minute) we could find someone a) cost competitive, b) who knew what they were doing and c) could produce something wonderful without shoving cameras in our faces and blinding us with lighting all over the place inevitably junking up our venue and getting in the way of our photographer. Ben and Steph did all of that with a calm professional confidence that let us know that like Allstate we were in good hands. Actually the best hands ever! From our first meeting with them over a beer (thank you) till the final viewing we have been nothing but blown away with them and their work. Steph is on top of her game. She's will document everything including your day of schedule and make sure Ben has everything he needs to work his magic. And we don't know what sort of wand Ben's got in his back pocket but he really made something that we love and will cherish forever. Our only regret was not having Ben and team video the entire evening. I'm confident if you just pick up the phone and call Leap, you'll be better for it.
We were planning a wedding in Chicago while living in Dublin, Ireland and Leap Weddings couldn't have been more helpful and accommodating with our long distance emails and phone ca...
lls! Jack and Josh LOVE what they do and it shows! From our very first meeting, we knew Leap Weddings were perfect. We were all hugs by the end of the meeting and all hugs at the end of our wedding reception! Even our family and friends took the time to comment several times during the wedding that Jack and Josh and his group were so awesome to have around. THEY made the wedding more fun, relaxed and we can not wait to see the memories they captured!
Epoch salon was the best place to get ready the day of my wedding. My photographer walked in and said, "Where did you find this place? I will be recommending this to everyone I com...
e across". It was definitely unique, a lot of space to accomodate breakfast, and very talented stylists. They were great to work with. Even after having to change my stylist due to a family emergency, they told me right away and set me up with someone of equal if not better quality. I felt very taken care of and would recommend this salon to others. I think I found my new salon in the city when all is said and done!
Leap weddings was by far the best thing I could have done for our wedding. The staff, Ben and Stephanie, were so in tuned with each other. They really sat and listened to you and...
what you envisioned for your wedding day. They wanted to get to know you. It was so great to feel so special and important.
Not only did their personalities make you feel at ease, but their work is impeccable. Their staff was on top of everything. Taking shots of things I would never even think of. I took a step back at one point just to see what one guy was doing...
This is the best investment you can make in your wedding. You need to remember as much as you can and with a video, there is your ticket. However, with a video done by Leap weddings, well, you will have your wedding day recreated and so very much more.
Leap Weddings is the best wedding videography company. We had the pleasure of working with Ben Mahoney and his assistant Eli on our wedding day. Their creativity, open mindedness a...
nd unique perspective truly make your video different from all other wedding videos. They capture all of the significant moments and candid moments of your day without being intrusive. Our wedding party and guests enjoyed their humor and enthusiasm and we cannot wait to share our video with family and friends.
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400 N. Racine Ave #107, Chicago, IL
