For Every Couple, A Story
HIGH-END PRODUCTION MEETS TRADITIONAL STORYTELLING AT
MOETIC WEDDING FILMS By William Kennedy
give them a wedding fi lm, fi ve to seven minutes, and a
90-minute documentary fi lm,” he continues. “What we
hear a lot is that we’re able to capture their story in a
way that makes it come to life.”
Welch says shooting weddings can be a grind — if
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“E
verywhere we travel we tell people
there’s no better place to get married
than Oregon,” says Ryan Welch, co-
founder of Moetic Wedding Films, a high-
end wedding fi lm production company with offi ces in
Eugene and McMinnville, Ore. “The problem is,” Welch
continues, to take advantage of Oregon’s natural
beauty “you’ve only got three months. We’re not going
to fi lm a wedding here in the Northwest until June.”
Welch and his business partner Ryan Rossman aren’t
interested in making just any wedding video. They want
to make wedding fi lms. And to do so, they have to reach
markets like Sonoma, Santa Barbara and Phoenix — places
where people not only get married year-round, but also
can aff ord an expensive memento of the special day.
Welch says he and Rossman decided early on, “If
we’re going to make this work, we’re going to have to
price ourselves out of the [Lane County] market and
travel. Our goal is to try and fi ll our Oregon summers
here,” Welch continues. “The challenge is to fi gure out
how to get down to California because they’re getting
married in November.”
Rossman worked for a time in Brooklyn. Contacts
in the New York area have led to Moetic shooting in
places like St. Lucia, the Bahamas and Cabo San Lucas.
The company also fi nds work online through Google
search engine optimization and posting to wedding
blogs like Style Me Pretty (stylemepretty.com).
“People who are hiring us don’t care where we’re
from,” Welch says. “They don’t care about the cost.
They’ve got good income coming in and they just
want to throw a sweet party for all their friends. We
you’ve seen one wedding you’ve seen them all — partic-
ularly in the age of social networking sites like Pinterest.
But Welch thinks focusing on the couple and their story
helps the process stay fresh for him.
“The couple’s unique,” Welch says. “When you
realize there’s a couple that loves each other, then
you have a story. And if we can fi gure out a way to
tell that couple’s story then every wedding we do will
be unique and diff erent. When people see our fi lms
they come away feeling like they know that person. It’s
the storytelling that most people fi nd attractive about
what we do.”
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