Melissa and Jim Lakey from the Quail & the Dove are seriously the best cinematic wedding videographers out there!

11/10 would recommend!

Our wedding video perfectly depicted us as a couple and the mood/vibe of our wedding day. Everything from the music choice, to the transitions/editing, to the drone footage, to the quick detailed shots made our film extra special. We’ve watched our video countless times now and are all smiles each time. Overall, we are left with this overwhelming amount of gratitude; we feel so honored to have Melissa and Jim film our special day and would definitely hire them again.

Click the link to watch the magic: https://vimeo.com/489261669

Detailed breakdown of our time with them below:

Planning: After filling out their intake form, we met in a zoom meeting where Jim and Melissa asked a bunch of questions about us and our love story. They were able to truly get a grasp for who my husband and I are and what style/vibe we were aiming for.

Adventure session: Working with them was a blast; they made the adventure session truly feel like an adventure and everything felt super natural. We were kind of worried initially as we both have never done anything like this before. We were not entirely sure on how to act while being filmed, but they were great at giving us direction and guidance on how to show our love for one another in a way that felt the most natural for us. It truly felt like my husband and I were on a date and just had friendly paparazzi do coverage!

Day of Wedding: Melissa and Jim were prompt and easy to contact. They filmed everything from us getting ready to even a mini adventure session post wedding! They captured special moments during our ceremony, during our reception and everything in between. They had asked us specifically what we wanted; we mentioned we’d love to have drone footage of us driving away as newlyweds and what came from that was far beyond our expectations!

Communication: Super easy and quick to communicate with them! They are very responsive in their emails and usually reply back within 24 hours.

After: They made sure to stay just as active in their communication with us after the wedding and sent us a fun 1-min sneak peek pretty quickly. We received our full length film along with the Super 8 Film Raw footage soon after and again, it was more than we could’ve ever imagined.

Quail and Dove do such amazing work. We were confident from looking at the films on their website and talking to them that they would do great work, but even so it exceeded all our expectations. Jim and Melissa are thoughtful, creative, professional, and great to be around, which made for a really great experience throughout the process - from planning to filming, and production of our wedding film.

We couldn’t recommend The Quail and the Dove more highly and were blown away by the Oscar- award winning quality of our wedding video. Jim and Melissa are incredibly talented and not only captured our day, but put the video together in such an intentional way that bought out the feelings of joy, excitement, nervousness and love that made our special day so special.

Jim and Melissa had great energy and were kind, calm, funny, fun and professional! They gave us helpful tips and recommendations before and during the wedding that helped enhance film quality and made our video and wedding more personal! Their presence throughout the day was positive and reassuring :)

There’s so much going on on the day of the wedding, it can be difficult to take it all in. One of the things I loved the most was how Melissa and Jim captured the micro moments - friends dancing, photo-booth silliness, family embracing, and different aspects of our venue. Every time I watch the videos I pick up something new that I hadn’t seen before.

We loved our teaser and full wedding video so much, that we also purchased recordings of the ceremony, speeches and dances. Our February 2020 wedding was right before the pandemic hit, and these videos have allowed us to relive the best day of our life time and time again.

The Quail and The Dove exceeded our expectations, and we will treasure these videos for the rest of our lives. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Jim and Melissa, and would work with them again in a heartbeat!