Miami, Florida

We couldn't get to the wedding, so we mailed a camera.

Hi,

People ask how a company that mails cameras to parties gets started, and the honest answer is that it wasn't a plan. It was one wedding we couldn't get to, and I remember it like yesterday — Rebecca and Arnold's wedding in Sonoma, California.

Before any of this we were a small crew in Miami, filming weddings, quinceañeras and birthday parties around the city. We carried the gear ourselves and edited late. One family would send us their cousins, and their cousins would send us their neighbours. A couple of months in we brought on more videographers than we had meant to, and because my background is in digital marketing, a website went up slowly, in the evenings — mostly so people could find us without a phone number being passed around.

Then my wife couldn't make it to a friend's wedding. Sending nothing felt wrong, so we sent a camera instead. Their guests filmed the whole day, mailed it back, and we cut it together.

What came back wasn't a videographer's wedding film. It was the day from the inside — shot from the tables, in the hallway, right up close on the dance floor, by the people who were actually in it. We watched it twice and understood we'd been doing this the hard way the whole time.

Since then we've added more cameras and more editors, and we've been careful about what growing does to the work. Every film is still cut by a person. There is no template and no automatic edit. We would rather turn an event down than send back something weaker than what we'd want for our own family.

I've watched people cry at their own wedding film — at a laptop, in a kitchen, months after the day. Knowing that what we send back is something a family holds on to for years is humbling, and it isn't something we take lightly.

Thank you for even considering trusting us with a day you only get once. If you do, you'll get everything we have.

XOXO, Olivia

Olivia · Recorderly · Miami, Florida