Guest post from a Wedfuly bride Joanne Ladolcetta. Joanne walks you through everything from online shopping to flowers to working with Wedfuly. View Joanne's original post via her blog. When I imagined my wedding day, I never pictured myself in a puffy dress riding across a meadow on a white pony. A Zoom wedding is a combination of live theater, video production and an actual wedding.
And someone completely dedicated to sound! Santa Cruz, a surf town with a great bookstore , is 75 minutes away from us. Pete and I masked up and drove down. The hour plus drive felt like a cross country trek, even though that was my normal commute back in the day. The courthouse building was mostly empty. There were signs about masks and social distancing. Once we had the license, the countdown began. We had 90 days to seal the deal and get married. Keep in mind that after you get married, both the celebrant and your witness have to sign the paperwork and that you have a limited amount of time to file the completed license for us it was 10 days.
However, I did like that Wedfuly was partnering with Zoom and that they had a lot of experience doing weddings and graduations. I figured at the very least, we should meet with them to hear their pitch. I so impressed with the initial meeting that we booked our wedding. She also did tech support for our guests. She is a patient person and after spending time with her, I could understand how she successfully taught a 94 year old man how to use Zoom.
I fully admit I got wrapped up in the graphic design and production aspects, because it was more fun than online shoe shopping. A Zoom wedding is a lot like old school live television where someone sits in front of a mixer and manually switches between three cameras.
There was one camera on me, the bride, one camera on Pete, the groom, and the main camera was a shot of the both of us together. For weddings, manual spotlighting is the way to go. I splurged and bought an iPadPro to use as our main camera. If you end up using your personal phone for your Zoom wedding, remember to turn off orientation lock, if you have it on, and silence the ringer with no vibrate. Make sure your device is fully charged, too.
