Wedding Date on May 29, 2021

I was recently listening to a podcast that was talking about choosing a theme when editing a wedding video. I realized that without thinking about it, this was something I was already doing. I often look at my couples and their day, their story, the things that brought them to that point, and there’s something about them that drives the story of their video. For Nichol and Jonathan, as I was thinking about the theme of their wedding day, it came to mind so quickly and easily that their theme was “redemption”. It took so many events in both Jonathan and Nichol’s lives in order for them to find each other, and God used a painful past and brought it about for good in both of their lives. With that in mind, I wanted their video to display not only their story, but the majesty and goodness of God. That nothing, from the highest heights of the mountains to the deepest depths of the ocean, could separate them from the love of God. Nichol and Jonathan are from all over - Nichol from Florida, Jonathan from Texas. They met and fell in love in the Bay Area, were engaged in Oregon, got married in the foothills of Colorado, and now live together in Phoenix. While thinking about this idea of God’s love, I remembered some ocean footage I had once shot while in Napa/San Francisco years ago. This felt so fitting to incorporate some footage from the place where they met and fell in love and held such significance for them. And even though it was from an entirely different state, it perfectly matched the footage from their engagement at Cannon Beach in Oregon (another place I’ve been to but sadly didn’t have any footage from). On top of all of this, I also had a bunch of gorgeous golden hour footage and a mountain timelapse from traveling all across Colorado over the years. Footage I had shot for fun with no purpose in mind, but somehow in the most perfect God ordained way, it fit this video for this moment. I’m sure there are a ton of details I would do differently in being able to shoot and edit this video, but getting to use this collection of moments from my own travels that I had filmed with no intention behind them, and then seeing how God was able to use them years later to represent something else entirely made creating this video such an incredible experience for me. I hope this video serves as a reminder to them of God’s goodness for years and years to come. Congrats to the Gerbers! From the bride: "Jonathan & I met at church. I’ve had a crush on him since October 2019. He didn’t really take notice to me until January 2020 when we were both in Oregon at the same time for different reasons & I asked him to meet up for dinner one of the nights. He says it was that night is when his interest in me happened. A few weeks go by & he asks me on two dates Valentine’s Day weekend. We got Ethiopian Food + drinks on Valentine’s Day then went on a six mile hike the following day. In March, the pandemic hit & both our work schedules changed which lead us to becoming inseparable & hanging out every single day. We got to know each other really quickly & knew rather quickly that we would want to get married. On July 4th, he proposed at Cannon Beach with both of our families there."