"You are not actors. I'm not a director. This is not Hollywood."

I say that to every couple before the wedding day, and I mean it as a promise. The ceremony, the toasts, your dad's face during the first dance. All of that is happening whether we're there or not. We'll pull you aside for portraits, because portraits need direction. The rest of it we leave alone.

There are two of us, so you can have both records of the same day. Photographs hold what happened. Film holds what it sounded like: your vows in your own voice, the toast that made the room go quiet. Years out, the film is usually the one people put on.

"You are not actors. I'm not a director. This is not Hollywood."

I say that to every couple before the wedding day, and I mean it as a promise. The ceremony, the toasts, your dad's face during the first dance. All of that is happening whether we're there or not. We'll pull you aside for portraits, because portraits need direction. The rest of it we leave alone.

There are two of us, so you can have both records of the same day. Photographs hold what happened. Film holds what it sounded like: your vows in your own voice, the toast that made the room go quiet. Years out, the film is usually the one people put on.