Travel
Destination wedding films.
Some couples get married twenty minutes from my studio. Some get married on a beach, on a mountain, or across an ocean. The film comes out the same either way, because it's the same person shooting it and the same person editing it at midnight.
home is the Shoals. the work goes anywhere.
How travel works
One line on your quote.
You see it before you book anything. No mileage math, no per-diem padding, nothing that turns up after you've signed.
- Included
- Everything within 60 miles of Muscle Shoals.
- Farther out
- Past that, travel is quoted up front as one simple line on your collection: the real cost of the drive or flight, plus a room the night before when the day starts early. No mileage math, no surprises after you sign. For anything more than about three hours out, I come in the day before. A wedding morning that starts with me walking in rested makes a better film than one that starts with me having driven since four, and a room costs less than what it protects.
Where I travel
The Southeast is a morning drive. Past that is a flight, and I like flights. If you're somewhere that isn't on this list, ask anyway. I have yet to turn down a wedding because of a map.
Alabama
Home. The Shoals is my base, and I film all over the state — Huntsville, Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and down toward the coast.
Tennessee
Nashville and Franklin are two hours up I-65. Chattanooga, the Smokies, and Knoxville are all a comfortable day's drive.
Mississippi
Iuka and the Pickwick area are practically home turf. Oxford, Jackson, and the Gulf Coast are all on the table.
Georgia
Atlanta, the north Georgia mountains, and Savannah's historic district — three completely different films depending on where you land.
Florida
The 30A stretch, Rosemary Beach, Seaside, and the Gulf Coast. Beach ceremonies need an early call time and a plan for wind on the mics, and I bring both.
South Carolina
Charleston and the Lowcountry. Spanish moss, water light, and old brick make that part of the country hard to beat on camera.
What distance doesn't change
One person, start to finish.
I film your day and I edit your film, whether that day happens in Florence or on a cliff in Big Sur. Nobody gets handed your footage.
Audio that survives the room.
Wireless mics on the vows and the toasts. Beaches are windy and chapels echo, and the mics handle both, so you hear every word years from now.
The same delivery.
A teaser within 72 hours and the full film within five weeks, in a private gallery you can send to anybody who couldn't make the trip.
Drone where it's allowed.
Some beaches, most national parks, and every country has its own rules. I check early and tell you what's possible then, instead of the morning of.
Planning a wedding far from home
Send me the venue as soon as you book it. Some places have rules about where a camera can stand during the ceremony, and that is much better to know in March than on the morning of.
Beach and mountain ceremonies live or die by their call time. If you have any say in the hour, take the later one. Light does more for a film than any piece of gear I own.
Leave a buffer on your travel day. Weather delays are the one thing neither of us can shoot around, and an extra half day of margin has saved more than one wedding weekend.
If there's a welcome party or a brunch the next morning, tell me. Those hours are usually the loosest footage of the whole weekend, and they are often where the film finds its personality.
Getting married somewhere else?
Tell me where and when.
I'll come back with availability and exactly what travel adds, before you commit to anything.
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