1
The contract
Signed by the three of us, with every condition set out in it. No small print.
2
The booking
Payment 1: €500 + VAT (€605 VAT included). From that moment on, that day is yours alone.
3
The welcome kit
A second document to guide you: how to choose the date and location for the LoveStory session, dress code, how it unfolds, and the guide to the archive material you’ll send me.
4
The LoveStory session
Payment 2: depends on the experience. Interviews, first as a couple and then separately, plus the shoot with cinema camera and drone. In The Story this isn’t a separate day: the interviews are filmed in the calm of the wedding-morning preparations.
You can bring anyone who is part of your story to the session — young children, your parents, the dog. All I ask is that you tell me beforehand so I can plan the shoot with them in it, not as an afterthought.
5
The wedding day
Payment 3: the remaining balance. I arrive at the venue before the preparations begin — drone and cinema camera for the place and the details — and cover getting ready, the ceremony, the drinks reception, your entrance, the dinner and the party without putting a clock in front of it: I stay while the party keeps giving moments worth telling. Through the day I steal confessions from your guests, in the same confessional tone as the LoveStory session: grandmothers, childhood friends, siblings. Those voices are half the heart of the film, and you won’t see them coming.
6
The premiere
At most three months after the wedding, the private gallery arrives with all three pieces. And this is when the thing we’ve spent months building finally happens: it’s the first time each of you hears what the other one said, alone, in front of the camera. I ask only one thing — don’t watch it on your phone on the way somewhere. Find an evening, a big screen and some volume: it’s cut with the real audio, and on the sofa it sounds like it felt.
It can be brought forward to 30 days with VIP Delivery, in exchange for filming your reaction the first time you watch it plus a short video testimonial: they’re worth more to me than any advert.
This is the path shared by all three experiences. What changes between them is how many days we shoot and how far the production goes.