ABOUT US
Behind the scenes infor on the Smithfield, North Carolina wedding videographers.

      Thanks for taking the time to visit our website about our high quality North Carolina wedding video documentations. We hope that you have found all of the information that you were looking for as you search for the perfect videographer for your Smithfield wedding.

      We'd like to take a minute and introduce ourselves on a more personal level. We really enjoy giving each wedding video our personal attention to detail and meeting our unique brides and grooms, so we hope you will enjoy "meeting" us through this page today.

YOUR STATE WEDDING VIDEOGRAPHERS

      My name is James, and my wife's name is Marianna (pretty, isn't it?). We are the two "behind the curtain", overseeing and having a hand in every step of your wedding video from consultations to filming to editing to delivery. We make a great team, and you can count on us to give you the best wedding video in Smithfield, North Carolina.

      We have been married for quite a while now, no longer newlyweds. Looking back, it's funny on one hand, but sad on the other - a disaster at our own wedding sparked our interest in wedding videography. We, like most couples, were trying to cut as many corners financially as we could, so we hired a cheap, amateur videographer. We had chosen an expensive photographer, and figured we didn't need much for a video, just a set up a camera and let it roll - how hard could it be? We soon found out. Well, I shouldn't say soon, since it took us several YEARS to get the videographer to give us our video. And we understand why he didn't want to give it to us, as it was NOT something to be proud of - the visuals were shaky, blurry, dim, bad lighting, and the audio, what audio? You mean you actually want to hear your vows? Sorry.

      Disappointment led to conversations with other couples - we wanted to know if their wedding video was actually decent. Unfortunately, many of them had similar stories and experiences. Marianna and I felt the calling to wedding videography, and set about to get the skills to start a unique wedding video company offering videos couples would be thrilled with. We have grown a lot since we started filming in 2006. Our wedding movies, as they have come to be referred to, are like Blockbuster hits, starring the bride and groom, and were so wildly popular we had to create a second company to handle the business - Player Wedding Films. Absolute Productions and Media has continued offering the highest quality documentary, "as it happened", wedding videos available, so that couples of every budget can have a quality wedding video.

      Our wedding video business takes up the majority of our time, and we find it very rewarding, but we value our family time as the most important. We have two wonderful sons, Matthew and Daniel, who are a blast and a joy. We're so lucky to have them, and love watching them grow (although it happens way too fast!). They are so different in personality, are two years apart, but thankfully get along well (for boys). Marianna and I have a variety of interests, but not much time for extracurriculars after weddings, family and friends.

     

All our best,
James & Marianna Player
Smithfield, NC wedding videographers