We just made our wedding postcards!

Awhile back my good friends Laura and Dan offered to come up to Carmel and be the videographers for our wedding! So, with August 1st slowly approaching I figured it would probably be smart to start thinking about all of this. With a little research I decided the amazing Super 8 had to be our format of choice- basically this is old school 60’s film that your parents as kids was shot on.

Shooting on Super 8 is kind of a pain in the butt though, or so I’m learning. For instance, you have to get a camera. This seems simple enough, but when you realize all the cameras you’re getting are from the 60’s and 70’s, the amount of potential issues you can have with them is pretty daunting. Also many of them use these little 1.35 volt mercury batteries for their light-meters. Mercury batteries no longer exist as they’re bad for the environment, so you have to get like these similar hearing-aid batteries, but the voltage is a touch off. Then comes the film itself. The film is a little pricey at around $15 a pop, and each ‘roll’ only holds about 2.5 minutes. Then once you’re done, you have to get it developed at around $13 a roll, and from there you have to have it telecined, which essentially means having it color-corrected and placed on a mini-dv tape. That costs like .30 a foot [there is 50 feet in a roll]. Phew, it’s going to be insane. With that said, today I bought my Super 8 Camera! Its a beautiful Nizo S56, a really nice quality camera made in Germany.

It looks like things are slowly coming together for Tanya and my wedding! This past weekend we drove up to the Monterey area in search of a nice B+B for our small little wedding. We lucked out and really fell in love with the first place we saw, called the Centrella Bed and Breakfast which is in Pacific Grove. Their website really doesnt do it justice, but it is an old Victorian mansion of sorts with these little mini cottages surrounding it with gorgeous garden courtyard in the middle. Its also 2 or so blocks from the ocean, so we can go for a nice dip in the water this August! Everything we need is also right in the general walking area as the resterant I think we’re using, Fandango is right around the corner. I’m pretty psyched! More fun to come!

Well if I forgot to mention it, I’m magically getting married this year [August to be precise]. So with that, we’re heading up to the Monterey area this weekend to find a place where the family can stay. It’s going to be a super low-key wedding compared to ones that I’ve shot, but nevertheless we’re going to go see about 5 B+B’s in Pacific Grove and Carmel-by-the-Sea. Since Tanya’s mom is out here to visit and help out we’re going to show her Point Lobos where we’re going to have a our quickie ceremony. We’ve done more traveling these past two months than in awhile, it’s been great! I also finished editing my Ireland photos! Now I can go get caught up with more important things!