Hire Matt and NEC — you won't regret it.
We can not recommend NEC enough! Though we knew we wanted a photographer (as is traditional), we were undecided about a videographer until meeting Matt – at which point we knew we had to incorporate videography in our wedding day. We found NEC through the recommendation of our wedding planner, and after watching some sample footage from NEC’s Instagram and website, we were blown away. It wasn’t just the NEC portfolio that impressed us, though. Matt’s rigorous attention to detail and commitment to balancing our creative/artistic vision with his own sets him apart.
We met Matt early in the wedding planning process via a Zoom call. He took time to understand our personalities as individuals, first, and then our identity as a couple preparing to get married. He asked us questions about our artistic style – but also our favorite music, our favorite foods, and what we did for fun. (Mind you, we hadn’t actually booked Matt yet.) We appreciated his level of attentiveness, though, because it made us confident that whatever footage/final product he produced from our wedding day would center our experience and creative/romantic vision of the day). Fast-forward 18 months when Matt was beginning the editing process, and though we had chatted on several occasions about an artistic direction for our wedding video, he emailed us some notes he’d written down during our initial call with the early thoughts we had shared about things we wanted prioritized/not prioritized in the video. He asked us if this was still how we felt, now that the wedding was over. This was like a chef coming to your table to ask about your meal, and if he can get you anything – again, this sets Matt apart. In fact, there were some important things we wanted to change from those initial thoughts because our perspective had changed. That attention to detail is baller.
As for the wedding day itself: Matt (and his second shooter, Dan) were professional, energetic, and operated mostly behind-the-scenes, as we’d hoped. We didn’t want to hear the whirring of drones as we delivered our vows. We didn’t want the photographers/videographers tripping over each other. Matt assured us neither of those things would happen, and sure enough, they didn’t. One of the many things we love about Matt and NEC is the way they genuinely captured our day as it unfolded (not as tons of staging or doctoring could have made it seem.) We gave Matt a lot of artistic license and the video he delivered was very authentic to us. Of course, there were some moments where we stopped to get a certain shot, especially during the sunset hour, but the balance was terrific.
Thank you, Matt. We will watch our wedding video on our anniversary for years to come.