Mara + Curtis / Trash The Dress (TTD) / Niagara Falls

Last fall the phone rang. I answered it to hear a girl's voice with a distinct New York accent on the other end of the line. It was Mara from Queens. Mara had found us online in her search to plan her destination wedding - the destination being Niagara Falls, Canada. Curtis, her fiance, has some family here in the Niagara area and her own family is from Buffalo so it made sense for them to bring their wedding plans to the Honeymoon Capital of the world. Mara and Curtis drove up to meet with us last November (on my birthday in fact) and we had a lovely dinner together and talked all about their plans for their August 15th wedding. There was talk of a live band, a jazz trio, a string ensemble and even a dunk tank. Mara had some pretty crazy and interesting ideas for her wedding day and the word she used was "memorable". She wanted her day to be memorable and fun for her and Curtis and all their guests. As the months passed we had many discussions over the phone and email about the upcoming wedding. They decided to scrap the dunk tank but really wanted "taking the plunge" to somehow be incorporated. It just so happens the the Crowne Plaza, their reception venue, has a huge indoor waterpark. Mara began making the necessary connections and eventually plans were in place for her and Curtis to hit the waterpark at 8:45 pm, 15 minutes before it officially closes for the day, in order to go down some slides and stand under the huge bucket to be dumped on IN THEIR WEDDING ATTIRE! Then Mara coincidentally won a contest, the prize was a wedding dress. Naturally, she had her dream dress already ordered but thought how cool it would be to wear the winning dress and do something fun, creative and "dirty" in it. We suggested a pre-wedding trash the dress shoot. Mara fell in love. So we thought why not go all out? Let's hit a few locations where we can get some great footage of her having fun in the dress and then end the day by hitting the waterpark. We didn't feel the waterpark footage fit very well with our grungy, trashy shoot for the actual TTD, and Mara actually wants a few clips from the waterpark added to her SDE tomorrow so it's perfect. This is the TTD short film we created for her and the SDE will be posted on Sunday. We are super excited for their amazing wedding tomorrow. Mara and Curtis, our first destination wedding, and we only have to drive 40 minutes to get to the wedding... NYC comes to NF.
Thanks to Joseph Vetrone, photographer and Matthew Craggs, cinematographer, for joining us on this crazy-fun shoot.
Enjoy!

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