Philly Wedding Films

Video and photography were top priorities for my husband and I. Shawn and team were absolutely amazing throughout our entire experience. They truly captured our personalities as well as the vibe of the event from start to finish for our wedding video. 10/10 would recommend and I hope to work with them on future projects!

Our wedding was six months ago, and we just kept getting delayed with life, but we just knew that we had to come back and write this review because working with Shawn and his team was one of the best decisions we made for our wedding! Shawn was super communicative from the beginning, and it was clear from our meetings and correspondence that Shawn was learning our events inside and out so he could capture the exact moments in the best ways, and that really came through during our three-day-wedding event. As for our actual wedding video, I can’t tell you how many times we’ve watched it in the last six months since our wedding, and every time we show it to someone new, we tear up and laugh all over again. Every second of the video was the perfect shot for the story of our weekend, and the music (Shawn picked the music for us) set the right tone for every segment. When we got the video back, we had to ask for an edit because one of my bridesmaid accidentally got the beginning of our love story mixed up with another one of our best friends friend’s (lol), which, obviously, there was no way for Shawn to know that. But, Shawn was so nice about taking that part out, and he threw in some extra footage so we wouldn’t have less than the number of minutes the video was supposed to be, and got it back to us in record time! And, lastly, but maybe most importantly, when we were trying to decide on a videographer, we were looking through different wedding videos and chose Shawn because we really wanted the genre he was shooting in and loved his style and aesthetic. We were only thinking about the finished product, we never really thought about what a videographer could add to the events themselves. Well, Shawn and his team were the perfect balance of being super respectful of our time as the wedding couple, of not being intrusive at all to the events or with the guests, and yet, somehow, also managed to bring such fun vibes at the same time! Every time they were filming, they blended in, but when we saw the video, they somehow managed to capture everything front and center. I don’t know how they did it, being the funnest flies on the wall, but our experience of going through our actual wedding events was better because they were there with us. We would book them again in a heartbeat!

Is it possible to give 6 stars? Finding a videographer was easily one of the most stressful parts of the wedding planning process. While we had been given solid recommendations by our wedding planner, the style of so many videographers felt cut and paste and not very interesting after a while. As an interracial couple with both light and dark skin tones, we wanted a time capsule that felt true to us and that didn't use lighting to fit a uniform aesthetic. We knew how special we wanted our vows in particular to feel and finding the right person to capture that on film was a more daunting task than we had anticipated. And then we found Shawn and Philly Wedding Films. From his warm and friendly demeanor to the unforgettable documentary style filmmaking he uses, all of their displayed wedding videos really stood out to us as unique. With Philly Wedding Films, there's no one size fits all approach to making a wedding video, just as there's no one size fits all to planning a wedding or to love! Shawn really takes the time to get to know you as a couple and outline what your goals are. From there, he uses his incredible creativity to suggest romantic ideas that another videographer might not i.e. our video opened up with voicemail messages we left to one another the morning of our wedding! We can't emphasize it enough - Shawn and his team will go above and beyond on your video and make you feel so special. We purchased a 5-7 minute video in our initial package but Shawn ended up creating a nearly 10 minute video for us because of the amount of footage we had and to make it as meaningful as possible. **Side note from the Bride - I have watched our video at least once every day since we got it and honestly it's taking time away from work I need to get done lol.** In what is an increasingly crowded market for wedding videography, make the easiest decision possible and hire Shawn and Philly Wedding Films!! Thank you thank you thank you!

Shawn and his crew did an amazing job! Being in front of the camera was one of the things I was most anxious about. My mother and bridesmaid felt the same. From the very beginning until the end of the night, Shawn and his crew made it almost impossible for us to feel uncomfortable or awkward. They were so good at getting us to relax, smile, laugh, and have a fun time! Shawn is kind, professional, and most of all, a wonderful videographer. Our wedding film looked so beautiful and featured all the highlights of the night. My 92 grandfather was able to make it for the ceremony and Shawn’s team