Charles Lauren Films: The Blog

Jill Velez of Copper Willow.

Backstage Bridal: Invitations…More Than Words // Presented by Jill Velez of Copper Willow from Charles Lauren Films on Vimeo.

It is amazing how many of our couples have had children in the last year or are expecting! The list just keeps on growing as their families are expanding! It’s great to take full advantage of your marriage Just yesterday we got an email from one of our favorite couples who got married March 3, 2007 – they had their first child and are working on the nursery.

One of our most exiting babies is Konstandinos, who was baptized just 1 year after his parents’ wedding! Check this out:

Here was the wedding video, May 11, 2008:

Here was their son’s baptism video, May 17, 2009:

Konstandino’s Baptism from Charles Lauren Films on Vimeo.

Amazing and keep up the good work!!

This site is full of useful tidbits for the bride-to-be! And, we love this site because every example references Boston, Massachusetts – kudos to them!

Little Wedding Guide

As we took off, LAX and the ocean were completely covered with clouds. The Santa Monica Mountains, however, kept the creeping cloud-cover from encroaching on the valley – as you can see.

We came up past the Encino Resevoir and got a great shot of the snowy mountains and smog!

This was a perfect bird’s eye view of Magic Mountain!

Check out Castaic Lake and the 5!

Sacramento sure looks different than LA

When we flew back from Sacramento, we even got to hang out with Lillian Kawasaki, who we used to work with when we made films at the Water Replenishment District, pretty serendipitous!

Just to give you a little more confidence in your purchasing decision with us – not only has the intro to Saturday Night Live now been shot with our Canon 5D motion picture camera, but the entire season finale episode of House has been shot with it. Same camera, same lenses, same support systems. This just adds one more aspect to our belief that our films are produced to the same quality specs that you would see on a Sundance film or network TV!

If you have 3 minutes, watch this very sad and emotional short film about the events of a person’s life. As you get older, it gets harder to remember where you have come from, everything gets more distant. But video, above all mediums, far more than pictures, can bring you right back into time. Video is the most powerful means on time travel we have – in 50 years, you will want to relive your wedding, and it will be profound. This film was shot with the same camera and lenses that we use on our wedding films!

“The Last 3 Minutes” From Shane Hurlbut, ASC from Shane Hurlbut, ASC on Vimeo.

In October, Kelsey had an amazing time making a film out of Jennifer and Jerome’s wedding! The photography was done by A. O’Brien Photography, here is a link to their pictures:

http://www.aobrienphotography.com/2009/jennifer-and-jerome-hyatt-long-beach-hotel-st-margaret-mary-alacoque-church/

These are some cool and amazing people! The shoes are all designed and made in Los Angeles – so nothing but lots of talent here! You can customize the shoes with all of their fabrics and textures, they really are the go-to girls for shoes.

http://jenandkimshoes.com

Thanks to The Dressing Room Diva and The Bridal Bar for hosting the event!

Jen + Kim Shoes Party at The Bridal Bar from Charles Lauren Films on Vimeo.

Hey Everyone!!! Mark your calendars, this Sunday February 28, 2010 I will be speaking at Backstage Bridal! An event held at High Profile Productions which we showcased earlier this week. Amazing wedding planner Tami Brown of Celebrate! With Tami Brown will be taking the helm in a Q &A with our company. She told me to think Oprah, so I’m ready for my close up Mr. DeMille! Speaking of close ups, Jessica deBen extraordinaire makeup artist will be doing my hair and makeup so I look simply fab! We will be recording the event, so don’t worry if you can’t attend, we will have a highlight of the day and a full recording of my presentation- unless I get cold feet and look like a moron, then we will have a full recording of Milo our pet monkey doing the hokey pokee.  By the way many of you may have seen the knew Kia commercial for the the Kia Sorrento with the sock monkey and his friends. I am a genius apparently because I already made a sock monkey film with Milo our sock monkey pet. You can preview the film True West, a documentary about our vacation to Santa Fe with my family, soon. Be prepared for 20 minutes of snow, fun, food and travel- watch out Samantha Brown I maybe be coming to a Travel Channel near you! Anyway… I digress. Come see what wedding Films are all about- and the good news brides to be I have 10 free tickets  to the event!! So if you want to come, email us and we can hook you up VIP style, and who said your local wedding filmmaker can’t hook you up! Be there or be a wet noodle! Ciao!

On a short trip passing through San Luis Obispo Bay, we came across this very real, working fishing pier. There were pelicans watching the oysters in tanks, sea gulls guarding the trash, pelicans wandering around the pier, sea lions catching fish, birds trying to steal the fish back, little dinghies, kelp and lots of happy sea lions basking in the sun, itching and rubbing their backs on the pylons.

The Animal Life of Port San Luis Pier from Charles Lauren Films on Vimeo.