Super 8 Wedding Film at 3 Peaks Ranch in Westcliffe

3 Peaks Ranch sits in a Westcliffe, Colorado valley with the Wet Mountains as the back wall. Seth and Cass used that land. Super 8 grain on a meadow. Digital close enough to see a tie. Barn doors standing open in the field.

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

Watch the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU_2-4h99Pc

Photographer: Abby Shepard Photography. DJ: Matt Rowles. Catering: Buffalo Gals. Makeup: Dry Brush Salon.

From high up the ceremony is a small arrangement in a huge valley. Wooden aisle, barn doors in the grass, chairs, mountains under cloud. That is the banner. That is 3 Peaks Ranch.

High-angle view of the outdoor ceremony at 3 Peaks Ranch in Westcliffe, Colorado, barn doors in the meadow under the mountains
High-angle at 3 Peaks Ranch. Aisle, barn doors, the valley doing the rest.

On the ground they are not small. He lifts her. Lace, a dark suit, a laugh in Westcliffe light. Tight enough to know they showed up.

Groom lifting the bride in a field at 3 Peaks Ranch in Westcliffe, Colorado
He lifts her. The meadow and the mountains stay in the frame.

Before anyone walks, the site is already a film. Wooden aisle, hexagonal arch, black chairs, the range in weather.

Empty ceremony aisle and hexagonal arch at 3 Peaks Ranch in Westcliffe, Colorado with mountains in cloud
Empty site. Hex arch, black chairs, Westcliffe weather.

Super 8 pulls all the way back. Two people walking a gold meadow. Grain. Sprocket flare. The mountains do the rest.

Super 8 frame of the couple walking a vast meadow at 3 Peaks Ranch in Westcliffe, Colorado
Super 8 on the meadow. Seth and Cass stay small on purpose.

Then get close on film. Profiles. A smile. Super 8 holds faces so the place does not swallow the people.

Super 8 tight profile of Seth and Cass face to face at 3 Peaks Ranch in Colorado
Super 8 tight. Profiles, grain, a ranch behind them.

Inside the ranch, tables wait in silhouette. Window grid. Westcliffe mountains through the glass. The land is in the room.

Interior tables looking through ranch windows at the mountains of Westcliffe, Colorado
Tables in the dark. Mountains through the grid.

Back on Super 8 in the meadow. A kiss, a veil, a train on dry grass, Colorado peaks behind them.

Super 8 frame of Seth and Cass kissing in a meadow at 3 Peaks Ranch with Colorado mountains
Super 8 kiss in the meadow. Train on the grass.

Vows under the hex arch. She reads. He listens. The officiant holds the page. Digital this time. Same ranch.

Seth and Cass exchanging vows under a wooden arch at 3 Peaks Ranch in Westcliffe, Colorado
Vows at 3 Peaks Ranch. She reads. He listens.

Super 8 again, this time for the dog. They crouch in the grass. A husky between them. Grain on a family that includes four legs.

Super 8 frame of Seth and Cass crouching in the grass with their dog at 3 Peaks Ranch in Colorado
Super 8 in the grass. Couple, dog, hillside.

From the air the deck fills with guests. The ceremony meadow sits to the side. Ranch roof, valley, Wet Mountains. Scale is the assignment.

Aerial of the ranch deck and ceremony meadow at 3 Peaks Ranch in Westcliffe, Colorado
From the air: deck, meadow, Westcliffe mountains.

Tight Super 8. Foreheads. A white bouquet. The meadow and the range stay in the corners.

Super 8 tight shot of Seth and Cass smiling forehead to forehead at 3 Peaks Ranch in Colorado
Foreheads on Super 8. Bouquet, grain, the ranch in the corners.

Ceremony through the grass. Super 8 wide. Hex arch, wedding party, barn door, Westcliffe hills. Destination work like this is why Austin is home base and 3 Peaks sits on the same list as Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio: go where the land is the point.

Super 8 wide ceremony through meadow grass at 3 Peaks Ranch in Westcliffe, Colorado
Super 8 through the grass. Ceremony, barn door, hills.

Dinner in the timber pavilion. String lights. A stone fireplace. Cass and Seth on the mantel. Speeches in ranch light.

Reception dinner in the timber pavilion at 3 Peaks Ranch in Westcliffe, Colorado
Pavilion dinner. Timber, fireplace, ranch light.

Digital close. Profiles. They look at each other and the meadow goes soft behind them.

Tight profile of Seth and Cass looking at each other at 3 Peaks Ranch in Westcliffe, Colorado
Close. Two faces, a Westcliffe meadow behind them.

The party piles in. Forest green, white blooms, a meadow laugh. Couple in the middle. 3 Peaks does not need a ballroom.

Seth and Cass laughing with their wedding party in a meadow at 3 Peaks Ranch in Colorado
The party in the meadow. Forest green, white blooms, a laugh.

Super 8 kiss, bouquet in the frame, sprocket on the edge. Film holds the burst.

Super 8 kiss of Seth and Cass with a white bouquet at 3 Peaks Ranch in Colorado
Super 8 kiss. Bouquet, sprocket, grain.

She stands in the windowed ranch room. Lace train on the rug. Colorado sky through the grid.

Bride in a lace gown in a windowed ranch room at 3 Peaks Ranch in Westcliffe, Colorado
Lace in the ranch room. Sky through the windows.

Super 8 family portrait in the field. Four people, mountains, grain. The day includes the people who walked them there.

Super 8 portrait of Seth and Cass with family in a meadow at 3 Peaks Ranch in Colorado
Super 8 family in the field. Mountains on the rim.

Ceremony tight. His face. Her veil. Vows in Westcliffe light.

Groom looking at the bride during vows at 3 Peaks Ranch in Westcliffe, Colorado
His face. Her veil. Vows at 3 Peaks Ranch.

Super 8, her walking the meadow toward the mountains. Grain, train, the ranch going on.

Super 8 frame of the bride walking toward the mountains at 3 Peaks Ranch in Westcliffe, Colorado
Super 8 walk. Meadow, train, Westcliffe mountains.

Last wide: aisle, hex arch, guests on their feet, the Wet Mountains taking the top of the frame. End on the place.

Wide ceremony site with hexagonal arch and mountains at 3 Peaks Ranch in Westcliffe, Colorado
Aisle, hex arch, the mountains taking the rest.

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 3 Peaks Ranch, in Westcliffe, or anywhere the land is the point, we will meet you there.

We welcome everyone. Straight couples, LGBTQ+ couples, interfaith families, a ranch day with Super 8 and a meadow: 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=xU_2-4h99Pc

adam@adamgrumboweddingfilms.com

719-964-6971

Adam Grumbo Wedding Films

Austin and destination wedding videographer

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

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