Your Alternative Wedding's work speaks for itself, you only have to check out their Instagram page to see that Sam is a pretty talented guy across multiple formats in both the film and digital realms.
In fact, we first contacted Your Alternative Wedding after seeing their Instagram page - we were after someone that could capture and deliver cool, fun wedding video content that wasn't cliche or cheesy (you know the ones!). We took a punt and jumped on a video call with Sam, who explained his super8 video options - he was so easy to get along with and said all the right things that we were after, so we booked him in there and then!
Little did we know at the time, but our main photographer who we'd had booked in for months (long before we found Your Alternative Wedding) would cancel on us just two days before our wedding day! And how Sam would come to our rescue... We quickly called Sam after getting the news that our photographer could no longer shoot our big day, Sam was on holiday at the time, but without fail he took our call and gladly offered to capture ALL of our wedding photos and videos - including, film photography in multiple formats, digital photography, super8 video and some 90's camcorder footage!
In the build up to the wedding, Sam was ace, he was clear in his plans, ran through everything with us in great detail and took onboard loads of our ideas for the day. On the day itself he was an absolute legend, he arrived early and left late, he was clear, fun and vocal enough to ensure we got the shots we wanted, but was discrete and invisible at all the right times (during the ceremony etc.), we literally couldn't have asked for more. He went above and beyond to ensure us and all of our guests were happy - everyone who attended the day had nothing but positive words to say about Sam - our friends still mention him now, a couple of months later.
We received the final products only a few weeks after the wedding, and it was everything (and more) that we could have ever hoped for. Sam's use of both colour and black and white across film and digital are astounding, along with his ability to capture dynamic, fun photos that are full of movement and joy, and his film video that is playful, stylish and beautiful to watch. His work is bold, powerful, screams fashion and cinema and above all else, it's super fun.
Sam didn't just meet the brief, he far surpassed it, and did so with only two days notice ahead of our wedding day. We'd recommend him to anyone! Thank you, Sam!!!
The Silvers
