Welcome to Blush!

Today we are formally relaunching our website and blog as Blush Wedding Films Canada. You may have known us as Durham Wedding Video but we rebranded for two very important reasons.

Amazing Growth

The most obvious reason you know if you’re a past client; our market has grown far beyond our humble beginnings in Durham Region east of Toronto. Our clients have booked from as far away as Japan (hello Nick and Amy!), Seattle (holla Simon and Liko!), 519, 905, 705, 647 and of course 416!

Quality

The other reason we needed a facelift is because of what our clients tell us again and again: we are NOT a regular wedding ‘video’ company. Our ‘films’ feature beautiful brides and handsome grooms. We capture the romance, drama and excitement of a wedding day in a way that can only be described as cinematic.

A name change was imminent, we just needed to brainstorm a bit.

Thanks of course as always goes out to my wife Susan for pitching a few awesome names, Blush being one of them. Thanks too for Susan wisely vetoing Popcorn Wedding – hey a guy can dream!

My appreciation goes out to my female focus group consisting of Cindy and Justine at the Toronto Star. Thanks, ladies for the suggestions.

Thanks to Ruth Alves, a hip designer who’s apparently too hip for a web site (nudge, nudge). When she’s not acting as Art Director for major Canadian lifestyle magazines, she’s busy designing awesome logos like the one we all settled on.

The 2009 season is in full swing so updates will be a bit slow as we are swamped with weddings and of course this long overdue rebrand. Keep checking in!

2009 Price Update

Brides and grooms have spoken to us, and we listened.

You’re concerned about the economy, and the costs involved with your wedding, and you also need to know that your vendors will be there for you a year or more from now. This is very important!

We took a hard look at our cost, and revised our price list. Overall, we saw a reduction of 10-15% off the top, so we’re passing on that to you.

We also created a few levels of service, so you can choose the level of coverage you’re comfortable with.

No matter what, your first step is to email or call today to check your date!

Thanks for checking us out, and Happy New Year!!!

- Rick

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BRONZE
Just the basics
$2495

• Ceremony with two standard-definition professional widescreen video cameras
• Two wireless lavaliere microphones with multiple backups (Groom & Officiant)
• Photoshoot with your photographer
• First Dance with our exclusive Glidecam camera
• Four hours of coverage
• Three fully authored edited DVDs with menu and chapters, printed to glass

SILVER
A full day of coverage
$3495

Features of the Bronze package, plus the following:

• Visit the bride doing hair and makeup
• Visit the groom getting ready
• Interviews with your guests
• Four more hours of coverage (total of eight)

GOLD
The HD Standard
$4250

• Visit the bride doing hair and makeup
• Visit the groom getting ready
• Two HD CineAlta HD cameras including exclusive Glidecam coverage, plus multiple backup cameras
• Interviews with your guests
• First dance, and dances with Mother and Father
• Garter and Bouquet toss
• Coverage from 10AM to 10PM
• Cinematic montage of your day delivered via email within two weeks (often much quicker)
  
• Ten fully authored BluRay or DVD discs with menu and chapters, printed to glass

OPTIONS

• Same Day Edit $995
• Take-Home DVDs at end of reception for your guests $20/DVD, minimum 20 DVDs, only available with the Same Day Edit option
• Love Story Montage $495 Stylized photo montage set to music of the couple as children, growing up, and meeting each other.
• Engagement Video $750 includes half day of shooting well in advance of your wedding day. Exclusive Glidecam coverage.
• Live Feed of Dances $350 provides a video feed to the DJ’s video screen (not included).
• Travel beyond our business area/Destination Wedding $0.65/km for all mileage west of Yonge St. or east of Peterborough, Ontario.
• Destination weddings at listed prices plus airfare and two nights accommodation for two.
• Extended Time Coverage $125/hour

Edit: removed reference to expired promotion

Glidecam Certification

Hey, the back fourty behind the Massacheusetts office of Glidecam had an awesome forest, and so ended my Smooth Shooter formal certification.

VP of Sales & Marketing and talented operator Tom Howie applied over a decade of experience taking me though the stuff best seen first hand, including precision balancing, shooting technique, and the one thing I really wanted to do, take apart and re-assemble someone else’s rig!

I’ve done a few Glidecam weddings now and I’m feeling pretty confident, and it’s important to build on that experience and learn the correct way of working with this precision piece of equipment. I got that perspective, plus total confidence, and I think a free hat (if I can steal it back from one of my kids).

I had an opportunity to show Tom some of my work and he was impressed. Thanks Karen & Mark, and Sari & Shawn for the awesome wedding footage!

A little hand-held time lapse photography.

The rest of the trip was a dream. Whale watching off the shore of Boston, GPS-guided journeys down two lane roads through the back-country of Vermont and New Hampshire, and a beautiful stay at the Orendaga cabins in Northville, NY. If you’re looking for total privacy in a lovely town on a lake, look no further.

Now, back to the edit suite.