Wedding Videographer in New Orleans, LA

New Orleans couples' most common questions about wedding films.

The Elms Mansion on St. Charles Avenue is arguably the most cinematically rich indoor venue in New Orleans — the double parlors, the grand staircase, and the period architectural detail create a visual language that reads as immediately New Orleans in film without requiring any establishing shots. Southern Oaks provides the opposite setting: open outdoor scale, live oak canopy, and the kinetic energy of a large outdoor reception that rewards wide-angle coverage.

The Jaxson on the River gives us the Mississippi River as a living backdrop — the river traffic, the city skyline across the water, and the French Quarter context immediately above create establishing shots that are unmistakably New Orleans. Paradigm Gardens in the Warehouse District is a courtyard garden venue that films with consistent warmth and a human-scale intimacy that large venues sacrifice.

The second-line procession — wherever it happens — is invariably the most cinematic moment of a New Orleans wedding film. The brass band audio, the handkerchief movement, the crowd's spontaneous participation, and the couple at the center of it all produce footage that no amount of production planning can replicate.

New Orleans weddings present unique audio opportunities and challenges. Second-line band audio is captured by our cameras' ambient microphones — the brass band fills the frame acoustically and needs no supplemental capture. Ceremony audio at indoor venues like The Elms Mansion requires wireless lavalier microphones to cut through the reverberant interior and capture vows at close range.

French Quarter ambient sound — street musicians, horse-drawn carriages, the general sound of the city — is incorporated as a natural audio element in establishing footage. The goal is a film that sounds like New Orleans, not a generic wedding in a generic city.

Films are delivered within ten weeks. Formats range from four-to-six minute social cuts to full-length feature films. We do not outsource editing.