Arianne Kelley - Wedding Videography

Film Archive 2025.03

Camera Sony Handycam / Hi-8 / NTSC

Location Lake Tahoe / California

Shot At Lake Tahoe / Afternoon / Direct Sun

Layne & Brett, Lake Tahoe — 2025

captured on Hi-8

ceremony / reception / golden hour

Cake cutting celebration on vintage film

Filed under: Wedding Season 2025

Shot list:
— boat entrance
— cake cutting
— reception details
— dock at golden hour
— scenery wide

The Mission

Where art becomes artifact.

I document weddings as they're actually lived. These are not posed, not performed, not managed for a camera.

I move quietly and let the day unfold.
I observe. I listen. I ask questions.
I follow the energy of the room.

Throughout the day, I interview your friends and family while everything is still fresh. Their real voices. Their real words. The things you'd otherwise forget.

Everything is captured on vintage Hi-8 camcorders which is a softer, physical format that helps people relax. The result feels less like a production and more like memory.

No staging. No directing. No pretending.

Just what was there.

What you receive isn't a highlight reel.

It's a time capsule.
It's a record of who you were, exactly as you were,
something you'll come back to years from now and say,
that's exactly how it felt.

How It Works

Observe

I document the day as it unfolds. No staging. No posing. No interruption.

Conversations

I spend time with the people you love and give them space to speak in their own words.

Preserve

Everything is filmed on Hi-8 and edited into a time capsule you'll come back to for the rest of your life.

Who This Is For

If you want your wedding to look like a Pinterest board — perfectly posed, tightly scheduled, highly produced — there are plenty of people who do that beautifully.

That's just not how I work.

This is for the couples who want the day to actually feel like their day.

Who care about the integrity of memory.
Who want to hear their friends' real voices in five, ten, twenty years.
Who understand that nothing needs to be performed to be meaningful.

You just want to live it.

I'll witness it.

And then I'll give it back to you honestly, vulnerably, and exactly as it was.

What Couples Say

"It is so special! So many happy and emotional memories we will cherish this forever. Thank you thank you... It's very special and personal in a beautiful way."

— Layne

"Arianne was truly the videographer we needed, she captured the day and just rolled with the punches."

— Riley