Welcome to our second annual weddings issue. Working on this edition always makes me nostalgic for my own wedding, which was 20 years ago. I like to see how weddings evolve. Every new trend makes me wonder how different my celebration might have looked. Truth be told, I’m always a little envious of those beautifully edited wedding recap videos people post on social media. They are the ones that look sleek, complete with music and perfect lighting. When I got married, wedding videography wasn’t quite that cinematic. My video was an afterthought that was filmed by a friend of the photographer as a favor. When my film school graduate cousin watched it she commented,
“Um, I could have done better than that.” She wasn’t wrong. Years later, while scrolling through Facebook, I stumbled upon my high school friend Shafeena Premji’s wedding video. Reader, she really raised the bar. Her recap played like
a Hollywood movie trailer. (It helps when the bride and groom look like film stars.)
I forgot about it until our Edit