Colin started Merryweather Films in 2013, and hired Megan later that year! After 10 years in business, we still love to craft beautiful videos for our clients. You can learn more on our About page. We’ve filmed over 200 weddings, mitzvahs, and events!

The majority of our shoots are weddings and Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, but we film events and parties of all shapes and sizes. Our sister company, arsenal mediaworks, produces marketing and brand videos for organizations like Penn Medicine, SAP and Movado, along with in-person and virtual events of all shapes and sizes. If you have an event you want filmed, we can do it!

The majority of our shoots take place within the Greater Philadelphia area, but we are always open to travel and happy to discuss both local and destination events. Events requiring travel outside of a 50 mile radius of our studio will be subject to IRS standard mileage reimbursement rates and all tolls and fees accrued while traveling to the destination. There will be the same number of vehicles as crew members. For some events, Merryweather Films may require hotel rooms or additional travel fees.

Of course! Merryweather Films is an LGBTQ friendly video company!

Of course! We love when our clients add the drone to their special day, and book our licensed and accredited drone operator whose sole responsibility will be to get great drone coverage of your day. You can read more about adding drones on our blog post.

We would be happy to! Over the years we’ve had the pleasure of working with some incredible wedding and event vendors, and we would love to help connect you with some of them. Just let us know what you need!

Unfortunately, as a video company we try to refrain from giving relationship advice. We can, however, guarantee that you receive a beautiful document of your special day. Our videos have been statistically proven to increase feelings of affection between partners by an average of 250% [citation missing].

We ask for a 50% deposit when you sign your contract to hold the date. The remaining balance is due one week before your event.

If you would like to set up a different payment plan, let us know and we can try to work with you. We have offered options with 3 or 4 payments in the past.

We accept checks, cash, and credit cards (with a 3% fee). If you would like to pay by credit card, let us know and we will set up a form for you pay online.

When you sign your contract, you’ll send in a non-refundable 50% deposit to hold your date. If your event gets rescheduled, we will try to accommodate a new date. We recommend reaching out to us before booking a new date if possible. If your event gets canceled, we will refund your deposit if we are able to book another event on the same date.

This depends on your type of event and timeline for the day. Our wedding packages all include up to 10 hours of coverage, and for most weddings, this is enough to capture everything from getting ready to cake cutting. However, if you have a lot of events, or a particularly long break between the ceremony and reception, you may need another hour or two. We’re happy to help develop or review the timeline with you. In the meantime, you can always book the base package to ensure you have us for the day, and then we can work out the start and end times as the dates get closer.

For Mitzvahs, if we are only capturing the party, 4-5 hours is usually enough time. If we are capturing the entire service, it depends on where the service is and how long the break is between the service and the party. We’re happy to talk to you about the timeline and help determine how many hours you need!

Of course! You can add hours to your contract up to 72 hours before your event! If you want to add hours in the 3 days leading up to your event, we are happy to add them, but there is an additional fee. We understand that it’s sometimes difficult to know exactly how many hours you may need when you are booking us before you have an official timeline.

All packages are based on continuous hours of coverage starting when we arrive. If there are multiple locations, travel time between venues is included as part of those hours. We take advantage of any “down time” in the schedule to capture artistic shots, like beautiful establishing shots of your venue or a cinematic reveal of the aisle at your ceremony location.

Yes! We have a lot of reviews on WeddingWire, the Knot, Google, and Facebook and we’d be happy for you to check them out! We are very proud that the majority of our work comes from vendor and previous client referrals.

We'd be happy to meet with you to discuss the details of your event and answer any further questions that you may have. We can set up a video meeting or phone call, or meet in person if you prefer!

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Generally speaking, we seek to maintain a very low profile and capture things as they happen. There are a few occasions when we stage shots though. We work with your photographer during your portraits time and and capture clips while they pose you for pictures. We also ask for 15 minutes of our own time to set up shots with you without the photographer’s flash going off. The only other shots we may set up will be when you are getting ready. We may ask you to turn a certain way, or fix a bow tie, or adjust an earring, but for the most part you will barely notice we are there.

The most underrated part of a good wedding video is good sound. For ceremonies and services, we try to connect directly to the house sound system or DJ sound board when given permission. We also bring small lavalier microphones that clip onto clothing and can be hidden on podiums or speakers. It does not amplify your voice in the room, but only records it for our editing process. Once they are in a pocket or clipped to a waistband, most people forget they are wearing them until we come to take them back

During the reception/party, we work with your band or DJ to connect to their board. If you are having a first look or reading letters while you get ready, we can provide a lav mic if you want to wear one.

No, once we have a signed contract with a client, we won’t accept another booking on the same day. We want to focus only on your event, and plus- our small team isn’t big enough to go to multiple events in a day!

If something happens at your event that you don’t want included in the video, just let us know. We’ll do our best to make sure it’s not in your final video.

For most of the day, we act like a fly on the wall, and just film things as they happen. We pride ourselves on how often our clients tell us they “barely noticed we were there.”

There are a few times when you will notice our crew, though. During your getting ready time, we will sometimes ask you to position yourself in a certain place, or ask you to do small movements while you put on cufflinks or bracelets or zip up your dress. This helps us ensure we get beautiful shots of those special moments. You may also notice us (along with your photographers) right before your first look. But once you or your partner turns around, you’ll forget all about us as we quietly stand to the side!

If you are nervous about having the cameras around, we are happy to do a phone or video chat ahead of time, or better yet, you can book an engagement shoot to get acquainted with your shooter and more comfortable with the camera before your wedding day.

Your Day-Of Production Coordinator will either be Colin, the owner of the company, or Patrick, our longest running crew member. They will oversee and direct a team of two shooters and help capture sound at the ceremony and reception to make sure everything goes according to plan.

Yes, we do ask that you provide a meal for the crew, and whenever possible, we ask that these meals coincide with the dining time of your guests. Our standard practice is to allow you and your guests to dine without being filmed, and allowing our shooters to eat at the same time maximizes our ability to provide coverage after dinner when the party picks back up!

During the week we may shoot corporate events, brand videos, and emotional interviews, but surprisingly, nothing we do is as demanding as shooting a wedding or mitzvah. So yes, tips are always appreciated! Bonus points are awarded for making cash tips easily divisible by 3 when tipping a 3 person crew.

Our number one priority is to make a video that you will love, so whether you love classical string concertos or third-wave-post-emo indie rock we are happy to oblige. We send out a questionnaire before your wedding that asks about general music preferences and then we choose music based on your answers and the footage from the day. If you would like to choose specific songs, you can look at Musicbed and Music Vine, the sites we license our music from, and send us a playlist or names of songs you liked on there.

All packages come with a downloadable weblink and private website. Our Premiere Package includes a USB drive, which you can also add on to other packages. We also have video albums available as an add-on! These video albums are like photo albums, but when you open them, they play your videos. You can add one to your package, or simply order one right from our website.

We upload your videos to a page on our website created just for you. These pages are designed to make it easy for you to share all of the videos with friends and family from one convenient link. The site address will look something like "merryweatherfilms.com/jordan-alex" or “merryweatherfilms.com/sam-mitzvah”

While these pages are not listed anywhere on our site, if a friend searched the internet for your name (or your child’s name for Mitzvahs), your spouse’s name, and Merryweather Films, they would probably find it in the results. For extra privacy, we can happily password protect your entire page upon request.

Teasers are delivered within 3 weeks of your event, and Highlight Reels and full-lengths are delivered within 6 months.

Some of our packages include full ceremony or reception formality edits (which include intros, first and parent dances, and all the toasts), which are similar to watching raw footage of those events. We also offer edits of additional events if there are extra things you’d like to capture. If you like to edit, or think you might in the future, we offer raw footage on a hard drive.

We back up all our footage on at least two hard drives, and while we are working on the edits, we keep them in two different locations. Once the edit is complete, we move the hard drives into storage. The final videos remain uploaded on the internet.