My favorite quotes from Amy:

• “There’s perfection in imperfection”
• “Paper is sexy”
• TOAST (listen till you get it)
• “I didn’t care if I got married”
• “I wasn’t the Bridey Kind of bride”

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For more inspiration about Making Your Love real in art, view our themed posts about ‘Where Art Lives’.

I’d like to credit the tunes to John Martyn’s Head and Heart from the album “Sweet Little Mysteries: The Island Anthology” and Jem’s Stay Now from the album “Finally Woken” The story is an instant classic by Jeremy and Sarah, look for their upcoming wedding in September and recommend me to all your friends who are getting married and need their love story told.

And Sara would like to thank her stylist Ellen at Scot Miller Salon, along with her colorist Jarrod and the sweetie Cory for doing her makeup and giving the dogs something to lick off.

If you would like a multimedia presentation for your engagement, wedding, anniversary, or just as a family journal – you can read more about these two packages:

3 Media package – Custom Slideshow – Documentary Audio

]]> http://makelovereal.net/extended-love-story/feed/ 11 http://makelovereal.net/multimedia-engagement-video-presentation/ http://makelovereal.net/multimedia-engagement-video-presentation/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:59:37 +0000 Neil http://makelovereal.net/?p=1323 Presented below is a video montage of Courtney and Charlie’s relationship story that they played at their rehearsal dinner

Courtney & Charlie engagement project from Neil Cowley on Vimeo.

This one was a team production where I did the audio and Courtney hired a video director to put together the extended slideshow with historical family photos.

Click play to listen to their engagement story, and enjoy the music by Helios from the Eingya album, titled Coast off

This will be the last post on these images, so here’s a summary of the saga!

• The first glimpse
  
• Intoxicated engagement shooting – tounge in cheek
  
• Neil show’s off his biking ‘skills’ for the camera
  
• Deanna’s wardrobe alterations for the engagement shoot
  
• Neil’s attempt to reach Deanna’s level of hilarity, in the shoot and in the post
  
• WPJA awards sunrise photo 11th place in 2007 engagement category
  
• Double sided, full color save the date cards.
• Engagement photos custom designed wedding signature journal.
• Read Deanna’s posts from her wedding planning experience.

That completes their 3 media engagement session.   This project has to be a highlight of my career this far and I look forward to getting to know so many more of you as I meet you for your engagement sessions.

So do you know where the best art comes from now?

I didn’t include the story of Courtney and Charlie’s first date, but if you’d like to listen to it here:

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…you can see how their engagement shoot reflected their first date and how tucker got included.

In case it’s not totally clear, the framed photos are the shadowbox that I made with Charlie’s input. The frame is antiqued barn wood, and it has a two inch deep sealed wooden shadow frame. The glass is painted from the inside to harmonize with the weathered edges of the photos and handmade paper in the backing. The photos are mounted on raw nails to avoid adhesives which lower the archival stability of the piece.

I look forward to blessing more and more of your lives with joy, strength, memories and moments

One of the challenges I face is how to know what to photograph, so to make myself better by understanding your perspective I’ll give you a free enlargement (whatever size you request) if you call up 1(641)985-7878 ex*4210197 and leave a message describing to me what was your favorite picture, and why. No, easy answers like ‘Neil you’re a genius’ don’t count – you really have to tell me what’s important to you and how it made you feel to have it captured….I know you can do it….just look at the picture while you call and it’ll be easy. If you’re having trouble getting started then just think about what happened leading up to the image, and tell that story starting there and then your thoughts will flow out.

If the groom has a separate favorite image, then he can call in on his own and leave his story for a second print.When I hear it, I’ll know the picture – or you can e-mail me the number and I’ll get an enlargement made in the size you request in the e-mail.

You can purchase your candid children’s portrait session through our shopping cart in order to schedule a play date with Neil’s camera!

If you would like the audio enhanced slideshow as a capsule of slice of life from your child’s stage of development purchase the slideshow option as well!

If you cannot view this flash audio multimedia presentation, then you can also try this page as an alternate viewable source.

Purchase a multimedia engagement session to tell your story to your friends and family all across the world.

Holly and John kick off my 2007 wedding season from the Inn on Broadway. And for the loyal blog readers there is a little extra content here – I hope you have fun listening to it!

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View their wedding summary slideshow. You may now purchase a Multimedia Add-on to accompany Neil or My wife’s photography so that you have an audio record of your wedding day, as well as a DVD slideshow blending the best of images with captured audio and a musical soundtrack. Anyone interested for thier 2007 wedding please contact us and let us know as we’re looking to complete some pilot projects and so you’ll probably get a sweet deal!