There are destination weddings, and then there is Hvar, Croatia.When Lauren and Russell asked me to capture their wedding day on this breathtaking Adriatic island, I knew we were in for something spectacular. But nothing could have prepared me for the sheer amount of love, side-splitting laughter, and pure, unadulterated energy this couple and their...
Dubrovnik has a way of making even an ordinary afternoon feel scripted. Its city walls hold the light differently than anywhere else on the Adriatic, and by late afternoon the whole Old Town turns the color of the stone itself, warm, worn, centuries patient. I’ve built a career filming weddings against that backdrop, but Lena...
Cicadas going full volume in the pines, gravel crunching under someone’s heels, a cork popping somewhere behind the villa. That’s what I remember first from filming at Villa Polesini, right on the old town waterfront in Poreč, before I remember anything I actually saw through the viewfinder. Gabi and Andres arrived here from three different...
St. Mark’s hasn’t had a roof since the nineteenth century, when the town pulled it down after the church stopped holding services. What’s left is an open courtyard ringed by stone, the old bell tower still standing watch over it. Ryan and Sophia said their vows there, under open sky in the middle of Hvar...
Zagreb in high summer, gold and unhurried, and it seemed to know exactly what afternoon it was catching when Andrea and Peter said their vows on the lawn at Riverside Golf Zagreb. I’ve filmed enough weddings to know the best stories rarely start where you’d guess. Theirs began years earlier and thousands of miles away:...
There is a version of wedding filmmaking that treats the couple as scenery. Beautiful, cooperative scenery, arranged and re-arranged until the light is right. I have never wanted to make films that way. The ones I am proudest of only exist because two people trusted me with something unfinished: a day they hadn’t lived yet,...