Sneak Peek

Here's a couple who fully embraced the benefits of professional video and their WeddingStory looks fantastic.

It was an absolute pleasure for me to be present at this couples amazing wedding day and, I have to say, the footage looks equally amazing!

This WeddingStory will be completed in about seven days time and the couple are hosting a special DVD Night in their fab home with all their families and friends and I've been invited along. So, I thought let's crank up the anticipation levels and give everyone a sneak peek with a WeddingStory trailer!

I'm really looking forward to meeting up with everyone again and that's one of the best things about my job; I get to meet so many new friends. Anyhow, enough already... click on the screen below and check out Deirdre and Francis' WeddingStory.





Would you like a copy of this WeddingStory? Simply contact us at info@velvetineproductions.com or call 066 711 9980 and get your free, no obligation copy. Enjoy!

More Picture

Velvetine Productions are already offering our clients fantastic wedding films that have woken up the entire industry and yet we are still raising standards so that your video is the best it can possibly be. And, as of today, all of our future weddings will be filmed in cinematic widescreen to enhance your viewing pleasure. That means more picture on your widescreen TV with no distortion or loss of quality!

Even though Velvetine Productions cite our creative flair as our competitive advantage over all our competitors, we are also setting the bar with our technological advances and nobody in the Irish wedding industry can even come close to our high production values. Fact!

Check out our work here and here and see for yourself.

Fake Tan, Anyone?

Not for the Carribean wedding party that I'm covering this Christmas, that's for sure.

When Laura Scanlon told me that she and hubby-to-be, Tim, are living in the Cayman Islands my interest was immediately piqued - yeah, I admit it, I thought she was flying me over there to cover her destination wedding - but I was just as glad when she told me that her event was taking place down in Kenmare, which is one of the most beautiful locations you could ever hope to visit!

I know that our lot have practically planted ourselves in every nook and cranny of the world but I was still somewhat surprised to learn that the Cayman's has a thriving Irish community; we were built for wind and rain, weren't we? I was even more surprised to learn that they have a GAA club. Laura assures me that they are going to update their website www.caymangaa.com.ky but it's well worth checking out, IMO... I even noted some Na Piarsaigh ladies in there... Back in the day (when I was eleven :)), I used to play for the Stacks and we'd travel up to Na Piarsaigh for weekend tournaments.

So there you have it... next time you head off for a sun-drenched week or two in the Cayman Islands bring your boots and togs with you!

yourStory

Exciting times ahead with this new service of ours!!!

I'm still putting the finishing touches to it but it's quite unlike anything that's ever been seen before on Irish shores. Without giving too much away it's called yourStory - an amazing video presentation that will be screened at wedding receptions with stunning montages of the ceremony that only happened a few hours earlier. In total, the video will be 20-30 mins in length with stunning photo-montages, concept video, and "how we met" type interviews.

yourStory will impact entire wedding venues and show the true value of professional video! I can't wait to start offering this service to my clients!

Last Minute

Got a call on Skype last night and it was one of my best mates, James Pierce, calling from Dublin. True to character, he rambles on about Canons, Olympus', and prices for lens' and then willy-nilly slips in a date announcement for his wedding to his fiance, Liezel. James masqerades as some kind of successful office manager by day but in real life he's a talented photographer - go pro, James!!! And Liezel is a bit on the arty-farty side so she and I always have loads to yacker on about; she's a brilliant graphic designer and artist.

They're off to South Africa in December for 6 weeks and then they're tying the knot here in Dublin in Feb. There'll be a gang of us heading up from Tralee and I might even bring the video camera with me... and I'll definitely be hogging James' Olympus E500 to see if I can cut it as a wedding photographer. Only joking... photography is cool but video ROCKS!

Best of luck, James & Liezel.

Velvetine Girls Rock Best!

This is a sneak peek for Helen and the craic at her wedding. I'd such a great day shooting this video and editing it is bringing back fond memories... so I decided to make this internet clip as a little bonus for all the gang in Dublin.

Check out www.velvetineproductions.com for more information about our range of services.

Kerry School of Music

Good artistry will bring goosebumps to your skin and The Kerry School of Music always succeed in doing just that whenever they are performing at any wedding ceremonies that I am covering.

The Kerry School of Music provides music, drama, and ballet training in my hometown of Tralee. For wedding ceremonies, and with their diverse selection of talented musicians, KSM really can cater to all tastes. I've heard them perform with just an organist and flutist, I've had the pleasure of covering them with a boys choir, soloists, duets... you name it , they can do it... and well!





This particular video may take several minutes to download.

Contact Kerry School of Music (Aidan O'Carroll) - (066) 712 5690 and tell them that Maurice from Velvetine Productions referred you.

Best Wishes

My Uncle Maurice in Birmingham, UK, has just come out of heart surgery and he's already on the road toward a speedy recovery. Maurice is my late father's brother and I'm sure my Dad and his parents were with him in some form or another during this tough period.

All my family here in Ireland have had Maurice, his wife Kathy, and their two daughters, Kerry and Angela, in our thoughts this week and we're looking forward to seeing them all in the very near future.

Muay Thai

Here's a prime example of a nutcase. This lad hanging off the side of a Spanish mountain is my trusty 2nd camera op, Shane. He's never happy unless his life is in danger - which is probably why he loves filming the Siege of Ennis!! - and I suppose the lack of oxygen during his rock climbing adventures convinced

him to go to Thailand for a couple of fights...

Muay Thai is like a form of kick-boxing and it's hugely popular in Thailand. Shane left Ireland on Tues and he should be arriving in Chang Mai at some stage today where he will join a training camp and immerse himself in all kinds of physical torture for the next 6 weeks. After that he's hoping to get into a ring and have a right jolly up with one of the locals who will hopefully knock plenty sense into him. Just wish I had my camera there to capture it all for prosperity!

All jokes aside, I wish him the very best and can't wait to hear all about it when he gets back.

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New Website!

We go LIVE with our new website today!!! Things have been so hectic over the summer with all the weddings that I just kept putting it off. But, with no end to the work that was rolling in, I decided that I'd have to set a few hours aside in the

evenings to get our site online.

That was two weeks ago and after some long, long nights I've finally got the website up and running so that we are accessible Nationwide. It was scary how many emails I was getting from brides - and I've since learned that people were talking about us on some of the bridal forums - and they were asking for our web address so that they could look at samples.

Now brides outside of Kerry can finally see what all the fuss is about and enjoy WeddingStory examples in the video gallery of our website.