Becca and Colton at Crested Butte Wedding Garden in Colorado

Becca and Colton were married at Crested Butte Wedding Garden, a mountain ceremony in mist with a clear umbrella, an aisle of white chairs, and peaks sitting on the horizon like a second guest list.

Adam Grumbo Wedding Films is an Austin studio. Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio stay on the calendar. Crested Butte is the destination version of the same brief. Arrive early. Learn the weather. Let the land take half the frame.

Watch the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ5VCXj2ZLY

The garden does not need anyone in it to read as a venue. Gravel aisle. White chairs. Hydrangea and roses on the ground. Colorado mountains at the far end. That is the banner.

Empty aisle. White chairs. Crested Butte mountains at the end of the garden.

Then put two people in the weather. Clear umbrella. White bouquet. He leans in. The hills go soft behind them.

Becca and Colton under a clear umbrella. Mist on the hills.

Pull back until the couple is gone. Snow on the rock. Clouds in the valley. Crested Butte does this on a weekday. The film has to love it on a Saturday.

Crested Butte peaks in mist. Snow on the rock.

The day starts on a table. Invitation with a mountain line. Rings on a silver tray. Perfume. A white heel. Crested Butte Wedding Garden is printed on the card, so the still does not have to guess.

Invitation, rings, perfume. Crested Butte Wedding Garden on the card.

Inside, she stands at an arched window. Gown as a silhouette. Colorado through the glass. Destination work from Austin looks like this when the weekend is in the Elk Mountains: the view is not a backdrop. It is a wall.

Silhouette at the arched window. Colorado outside the glass.

The party makes a lane. Bouquets up. Tuxedos cheering. Becca and Colton walk through their people with the range still in the frame.

The party opens a lane. Becca and Colton walk through it.

At the altar the florals become a wall of white. Officiant. Hands. Her veil. This is the ceremony the title promised, garden included.

Altar florals. Vows at Crested Butte Wedding Garden.

Get closer to the set. A reserved sign on a white chair. Hydrangea on the aisle. The empty chairs from the banner earn a tight cut once people have sat.

Reserved chair. Hydrangea on the aisle.

Then give the land the couple again, small. Clear umbrella. Meadow grass. Crested Butte peaks holding the fog. Wide enough that you remember why anyone booked a plane from Texas.

Clear umbrella. Meadow. The peaks take the rest of the frame.

A mountain film still has to land on the ring. Emerald cut. Satin. A hand on the gown. Close work Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio weekends get too. Crested Butte does not get a pass because the sky is bigger.

Emerald cut ring against the gown. Close work the mountains do not replace.

Tight on her. Strapless gown. A look down. Faces so the wide shots do not win every cut.

Tight on her. Strapless gown, a quiet smile.

Another peak, this time with autumn in the trees. Snow on top. Cloud around the middle. The garden sits under weather like this. The film prints it as a still, not a postcard.

Snow on the peak. Aspen turning at the base.

Profile in a field. Long veil. Hands. A blue break in the cloud over the range. Couple and place in one frame, which is the assignment.

Veil in the wind. Two people in a Crested Butte field.

Then him alone. Tuxedo. Bow tie. Boutonniere. The hill behind. Tight so the landscape does not swallow the person who hired the camera.

Tight on him. Tuxedo, bow tie, the range behind.

From above the lawn, the processional is the whole garden: white chairs, standing guests, the bride on the gravel, Colorado hills as the back wall. Empty ceremony lived in the banner. This cut is the same set with a pulse.

Processional on the lawn. Guests standing. Colorado hills behind.

They walk a dirt road as if the mountain is the reception. Train of the gown. Bouquet in his hand. Crested Butte does not hide. You point a lens at it and it fills the frame.

Dirt road, train of the gown, a mountain at the end of the walk.

Close again for the dance. Her smile. His shoulder. Pearl earring. This is the marriage, not the vista.

Tight dance. Faces in the same frame.

Inside the reception, the table is a still life. Hydrangea, roses, tapers, black chair backs. Garden work continues after the aisle is put away.

Hydrangea, roses, tapers. The table as a still life.

Night puts string lights over the floor. Guests dance. The couple is in the room. A mountain wedding that never leaves the lawn still has to throw a party.

String lights. Guests on the floor. Night in the garden.

They sit. Hands on the cloth. A toast somewhere off frame. Tight enough to see they showed up for the words, not only the view.

Hands on the table. They listen together.

Last still: Secret Stash boxes in a tuxedo. Crested Butte pizza at night. The garden can be solemn at noon and ridiculous after dark. The film should hold both.

Secret Stash boxes. A Crested Butte night snack in a tuxedo.

If you are planning a wedding in Austin, we are based here. Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio are regular work. If the day is at Crested Butte Wedding Garden, or anywhere the land is the point, we will meet you there.

We welcome everyone. Straight couples, LGBTQ+ couples, interfaith families, a garden day in the mist: if you want a film that feels like the place you chose, we would be honored to make it.

The film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ5VCXj2ZLY

adam@adamgrumboweddingfilms.com

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Adam Grumbo Wedding Films

Austin and destination wedding videographer

Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, and wherever you say I do