Dream Space Weddings

As the person filming your love story, I thought you deserved to know a bit about mine. This is who I’m sure you all have seen me share on my stories all the time. She is my rock, my mentor, my partner, my best friend, and just so happens to be the greatest wedding photographer that I know.

When I first started wedding videography, I was in my sophomore year of film school at Syracuse University, and as a broke college student trying to figure out how to make a quick buck, I found a ton of YouTubers telling me to join a Facebook group and film weddings. So, I did, and I was TERRIBLE at it. Coming from a traditional film background, I didn’t know the first thing about weddings or being a vendor. Actually, the first wedding I filmed was the first wedding I attended 😂

Fast forward a couple of years, and I’ve now just graduated college, looking for what I wanted to spend my time doing. I had been hired from Facebook by some girl named Jenna to second shoot video at a wedding for her. When I showed up, Jenna and her two friends (Emily and Dani) popped out of her car, and I realized quickly that I was the odd man out. Being the only man in the group, they were weary of me of course, but by the end of the night, the four of us got along so well, that we ended up making a group chat called the Dream Team, and could barely say goodbye. But we ultimately did say goodbye, and that should have been the end of it.

By chance, two weeks later, Jenna had a seconding spot last minute need to be filled, so she reached out to me, and of course I said yes. This time, it was just us, and we could not stop smiling the whole day. Our synergy was off the charts, and we spent two hours after the wedding laughing, chatting and singing in the car after the wedding. We both had just made a new friend… but when we said goodbye, I sat in my car facing a two hour drive home and just had to call her. She picked up the phone and I said “I never got to tell you that podcast idea!”

I’m at my character limit but… needless to say Jenna and I met when we weren’t looking for love, and in each other, we found our best friend. ❤️

Hi everyone, I wanted to share some honest feelings with you all about love, life, wedding films… I hope this helps you feel seen and get to know me a little.

TLDR: Shifting focus towards a more intimate and intentional approach to filmmaking and business as a whole. Telling stories with meaning and depth, capturing more than just what happens at weddings, but also the meaning and emotion behind them.

The story:

I ultimately stumbled into wedding filmmaking, and growing up, it was never the goal. While I was pursuing a commercial production company and taking a full time course load as a film student, I found weddings as a fun way to make a little side income. For a while, that’s where things stayed for me. I always had fun with weddings but when I was asked why I made these films, I felt like it was just something fun, and wasn’t much deeper than that.

Over the past year, I’ve been wrestling with my understanding of who I am, and why I do what I do. As I’ve fallen deeper in love with wedding films, I’ve had to ask myself where my personal attachment is to it all. Then, a few months ago, I heard a song that struck a chord at the perfect time. The song was “Forever” by

In the midst of a teeny little mental breakdown about this whole thing, I sat down and listened to this song for the first time, and really listened to the lyrics. I felt everything from nostalgia to sadness to joy and goofiness and so many more complex emotions in between. After digesting it for a while, I jumped up and had my AHA! moment. That’s the feeling I need to create. That’s who I am as an artist. That’s why I make wedding films.

I believe that love is forever, and there’s a reason nobody has one definition of love. Love is everything. Every emotion, every kiss, every fight, your first apartment together, saying goodbye to loved ones side by side… all of it. Marriage is the sharing of two lives, which involves all of those emotions.

In my wedding films, I want to capture the feeling of this love in its entirety, so that when you look back at this time in your lives together, no matter how far in the future, you’re reminded of the genuine deep love you share. ❤️

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I’ve been absolutely loving life recently and I thought I’d share it here.

I’ve pretty much had a camera in my hand since I was a kid. Seriously, I made my first short film festival circuit at 9 years old. Over my teenage years, I flip flopped between a few different passions and interests, but I kept finding myself back filmmaking.

I’ve always dreamt of traveling, seeing the world, and making a living doing what I love. But boy let me tell you, it has not been easy. After Covid hit, I felt lost and hated film school, so I decided to start with no money, no experience, or really any idea what I was doing.

After finishing college with nothing in my bank account, two maxed out credit cards, and just being overall beat down, I had to make a choice: give up, or push on. A few months later, I was extraordinarily lucky to meet my now girlfriend and incredible photographer/filmmaker and she gave me hope that things just might work out.

A year later, with my fair share of existential dread and late nights… I feel like I’m entering a new phase in life. A new chapter. For the first time, I feel confidence, understanding the importance of self worth, and finally getting to see the world through my lens, the way I always dreamed. I mean come on, look at these pictures!! Mendocino?? BIG SUR?? Going to CO week??

All this is to say, nothing online is the whole story, I f**king love my job, and I’m so beyond grateful to all of you amazing people who have brought me this little slice of the life I’ve always dreamed of.

Dream Wild.

I had so much fun shooting with M and A in Tulum today!

📍Tulum, Mexico

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and .hale Enjoying the sunset on Laguna Beach together 🌅❤️

Traveling the world to capture these love stories has been SOO much fun, and I can’t wait to show you all what else I have in store this season ☺️☺️

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Weddings Season is HEREEE!!! I’m just poppin on the gram to let everyone know that I’m so excited to be capturing so many beautiful weddings this season ANDDD that I will be traveling a LOT.

Here’s my travel plan so far:
May: NY-UT-NY Van Trip
June: San Diego - NY Van Trip
July: Tulum, Mexico
August: San Francisco & Mendocino, CA
September: Grand Junction, CO

Anyways point is, I’m having so much fun and I’m so excited for all the incredible people I’m gonna meet and events I’m gonna film and if you wanna follow along, I post my travel stuff on my personal . And if you’re around those areas, hit me up! I would love to do an engagement shoot or couples session, whatever you want!

So excited to be flying the new DJI mavic 3 pro for my premium couples this season!! I hope everyone is enjoying the summer weather!

📍Schroon Lake, New York

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If you’re anywhere around the world from Utah to Italy to japan or anywhere else, and getting married, I’m 100% your guy 😉

Well boy did I have a fun day today!

I had the opportunity to shoot this BEAUTIFUL wedding at and it did NOT disappoint! This film was shot entirely on the Sony fx30 and with some new techniques, I was finally able to reach that cinematic feel I’ve been after. Let me know what ya think!

I was told I’m supposed to post more photos of myself so you know what I look like. Honestly I think it’s more of a testament to Jenna ~ Intimate Weddings & Elopements | Photo & Video] for being able to find the singular moment where I look good on camera 😂

Anyways, I’m getting really excited for the wedding season! I have met some AMAZING couples and I’m so excited to shoot y’all’s weddings! Especially pumped to be shooting some gorgeous weddings in San Francisco and Grand Junction CO this summer ☺️

In other news, I’m editing a documentary and it’s AMAZING but it’s also sucking my soul 😂 I’m also super excited for the snow to finally melt so I can start mountain biking again!! And… yeah, I’m not good at these caption things so… bye bye!

PC: Jenna ~ Intimate Weddings & Elopements | Photo & Video] my favorite photographer ☺️

My first time shooting in Buffalo! Thanks so much for having me second and special shout-out to the fantastic video team and

Ps. Swipe to the end for a surprise ☺️

I’ve been spending a lot of time in WNY recently so it was awesome to meet a bunch of local photographers and models!

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Couples skiing shoot with and Justin! Admittedly I went to shoot video but I couldn’t help sneak in a few photos ☺️

Thank you to for leading the photo shoot!

Engagement video stills: Natalie & Derrick.

Wedding Video Stills: Korinn and Chris!

Movie Style Highlight Film Stills. My favorite couple ever and Justin 💕