Erin + Herman - Texas Safari Ranch - Sept 25, 2010

Beautiful fall wedding with the Mayo/Stackhouse families.   Almost 4 years ago, we had the pleasure of filming Herman's sister's wedding.  We were delighted when Mr. Mayo called us to work with their family again for his son's wedding. This was a very sunny day that turned out perfect for this neat couple.

Congratulations, Erin and Herman!
Jack & Julie

A Day To Remember Celebration at Villa Rinata Reception Facility

Last week we celebrated 10 years of business with our friend Claudia De Velasco of A Day to Remember Event Planning.  The celebration was held at The new Villa Rinata in The Galleria Area.  Julie and I put together a cute little tribut to Claudia in this video below.



Jack

Lauren & Travis Furr - July 24, 2010 - Lakeside Country Club

Barely back from Hawaii!  Lauren and Travis Furr had a wonderful evening 7pm wedding at Holy Spirit Episcopal Church and Lakeside Country Club.  Amazing band for the reception, beautiful music for the ceremony, and delightful party people having a great time all day long!

Congratulations, Lauren and Travis!

Wedding Vendors

Photography
David Jones Photography

Band
Password

Reception
Lakeside Country Club

Church
Holy Spirit Episcopal Church 
Memorial Area - Houston, TX

Stephanie & Richard Stegemeier - Briscoe Manor - February 6, 2010

Congratulations, Stephanie and Richard!!

This HD Perry Wedding Film is our first HD Wedding Film.  Stephanie and Richard were courageous enough to let us try out the new HD Canon 7D, 5D technology with precision Canon L series lenses.

We shot this Wedding Film near Houston in Richmond, Texas at Briscoe Manor back in February.  We created 2 versions.  Which one do you like better?  v1 or v2?
(Click the "ENLARGE" Vimeo icon in bottom right corner of video ("X") to see the video in full screen--v2 is of higher image quality than v1. We are upgrading v1's quality to post online soon.)


Houston Wedding Vendors

Houston Wedding Venue
Briscoe Manor


Live Band
The Grooves


Flowers
Fresh Blooms of Houston

Cake
Cakes by Gina

Caterer
Behind The Bash
(yum!)


 HD Wedding Film Extended Trailer - v2





HD Wedding Film Extended Trailer - v1

Carla & Kason Knight Wedding - May 22, 2010 - Briscoe Manor

Congratulations on your new marriage, Carla and Kason!  Such a pretty spring day for a wedding!  The flowers at Briscoe Manor were in full bloom, the sun was shining bright, and God must have been smiling!

Trailer Song licensed by TripleScoopMusic.com
"God Is" (instrumental) by Faith Rivera

Houston Wedding Venue

Briscoe Manor

Photographer

Alison Carlino

Carlino's Photography, LLC

Celebrating 7 years...

www.carlinosphotography.com

http://carlinosphotography.blogspot.com/

Flowers

Your Choice Weddings

Invitations

Tanglewood Gifts and Stationery

Wedding Dress

Weddings by Debbie

Cake

Suzie's Cakes

Ceremony Music

Scott Graham

Harmony Strings

DJ

DJ's Unlimited

Caterer

Behind The Bash

(yum!)

Ice Cream

Marble Slab Ice Cream

Angela + Tommy Mattix - July 3, 2010 - Briscoe Manor

Welcome to our first extended film trailer release from our new product line of wedding documentary work--Perry Wedding Films!

Doing business since 2002, We are incorporated in Texas under Perry Video Productions Inc. To better serve our Houston brides and families, we just created a new product line for HD Films called "Perry Wedding Films". (www.perryweddingfilms.com) This product will be a wedding film that uses professional telephoto and wide angle lenses, DSLR Canon 7D, 5D, and Mark IV cameras, stabilizing equipment, and more live action (less slo mo!).

We are very excited to bring this product to our clients. We have trained for all of the first of 2010 to make sure that this was not only beautiful, but a secure way to produce video. We are always back up our files and shoot with back up cameras.

To this wedding film--The Mattix and Schultz families are very special to Julie and me. Angela is The Schultz Family's only daughter. We were very honored to be chosen to put this together. May it be a family treasure for years!

Songs licensed by TripleScoopMusic.com:
Pre-Ceremony, Ceremony - Baby Steps by Douglas Romayne
Reception - Heartbeats by Melinda Ortner

For this film and much of our work, we draw inspiration by 2 of the greats in our Documentary Film business that we had the pleasure of meeting through IN Focus Video Event:

Still Motion - Thank you for your dedication to innovative work of the highest quality. Training and consistent passion for great film work!

Joe Simon --Thank you Joe for those helpful e-mails, phone calls, and above all your dedication to exceptional documentary film work!

Also, last, but not least, thank you Sandy Bueller of Sweet Spirit Productions. Sandy provided us the DP slider that you see used here.

WEDDING VENDORS

Houston Reception Facility

Briscoe Manor

Richmond, TX

Shuttle

Marriott Hotel

Cake

Cakes by Gina

Photography

Hazel West Photography

Floral Decorations and Flowers

Flowers by Lisa

Fireworks

LGN Enterprises

Transportation

Excelsior Limo

DJ

DJ's Unlimited - Jeff Raines

Ceremony Music

Chris Cullins/Jody Smith 

Ceremony Officiant

Luis Palomo

Perry Wedding Films - Coming Soon (like this week!)

We have held out of the High Definition upgrade game for a while. We just did not see a big difference in our great Sony DSR 250 DVCam cameras. Well, the image has now arrived. In early 2010, we invested in new HD equipment. It is the Canon 7D, 5D, and Mark IV. Gorgeous image. Unlike anything anyone has seen to date. It was the time to make the move.

Stay tuned for our new product line release "Perry Wedding Films" for Cinematic High Definitions to better serve our beautiful Houston Weddings, Brides, and Families.

We are now shooting in 24p with Canon DSLR cameras (1080p HD!). We are really excited about this! This is the coolest, most beautiful thing to happen to video/film production in our 9 years of business.

Perry Wedding Films Logo, Perry Wedding Films Web site update, Newsletters, Facebook fan updates, and more to come.

Onward to even more beautiful wedding films!
Jack & Julie

Kalli and Richard - January 16, 2010

Julie and I enjoyed the wedding of Kalli and Richard Gonzalez last week. We've been away at IN FOCUS in Austin all week, so we are just getting around to editing her piece and sharing some of the great wedding memories.

The wedding was held at Trinity Lutheran Church in Spring.

The Reception was at Shirley Acres. They always do such a nice job of hosting.

DJ was Jeff Raines with DJ's Unlimited. The also provided the beautiful lighting and photo booth.

My favorite part of the wedding was to hear Kalli sing. She looked so beautiful at her wedding. To hear her sing was amazing. She is a very talented vocalist! She sang and Yodeled--a tough thing to do.

Very sweet girl. Richard is a lucky guy.

She even let me take some fun pics with her in the photo booth. I'll treasure these forever!!!

Jack & Julie

Julian St. Pierre - Genius Entreprenuer; Generous Mentor- Rest in Peace

This evening, my wife told me of very sad news. Our good friend from New Orleans, Julian St. Pierre (center picture) of Studio Vieux Carre passed away in his sleep. Julian was a special individual.

While I am unsure of the details of his passing, I am very sure of my admiration for this man. I met Julian 8 yrs ago when Julie and I were in our 2nd yr of business. We lacked aim and artistic direction for our work. We were holding a booth at The Houston Bridal Extravaganza. The show was a mild success by that point. We were about to call it quits when it occurred to me to pull back the curtain and meet the booth behind us. The booth behind us was "Custom Video by Terry", which now is known as Studio Vieux Carre. That one instant changed the direction of our business. That instant was meeting Terry and Julian. Terry's artistic talent and Juliannes marketing genius were what we modeled ourselves after. Julian was unusually generous with his ideas. I loved how confident, even "a little cocky" as he would say, that he was. He was such a great energy to be around. I will miss him.

In my life, I have a handful of mentors that I learn a great deal from. Julian is in my top 5 or 10 for sure. He taught me so much about marketing a small business, in particular wedding video business. He was talented. He was nimble. He was very smart.

The last conversation I had with Julian, was about 6 months ago. We talked for 55 minutes! We would try to keep in touch about 1-2x/yr. I always had tons of questions for him about how he marketed his business and many other aspects of wedding and event video. To me, he is the king of wedding and event video. His business model is the best around. And, amazingly, he always continued to improve it, evolve it. With the creation of Collaborative Organizations like "In Focus" . He was God's gift to small business, in particular documentary video. He helped all the artists make money and keep from starving.

http://www.infocusvideoevent.com/

Funny thing, in that last conversation, Terry had to pull him off of the phone. He just loved to talk about marketing, video, and business. What a passionate guy!


I would like to know when the memorial service is. I owe a lot to Julian. Much more than I ever got a chance to tell him. I'm sure there are many in the Wedding and Event Video Production business who could say the same.

Julie and I will be praying for God's peace on Terry, her son, Joe, and their family. Julian, thanks to your enduring generosity with your ideas, your spirit lives on. Thank you for being part of our lives. God bless.

Jack
www.perryvideoproductions.com
www.perry-photo.com

YES Prep YBlazers Studios Advisory & Mentor Board

It all began with one hard working student seeking to get more out of her YES Prep experience than the rest. This students name is Andrea Rodriguez. Based on the successful internship program Andrea held for 2 years with Perry Video & Photography, Yes! Prep Northeast has adopted her model of hard work to share with the other students. With the help of Craig Brandenburg, Mark DiBella, and Jack & Julie Perry, the YES Prep Advisory Board was created. The purpose of the board is to bring the best in local Houston video production business talent to the students of YES Prep.

The 2009-2010 year is the charter year of The YES Prep Y Blazers Studios Advisory Board of about 8 volunteer positions to work with the students at Yes! Prep. Yes! Prep has a video production and photography class and business that we will be working with to mentor and help them become knowledgeable video professionals. The structure of the Advisory Board is below.

The Advisory Board met with Mark Dibella and Craig Brandenburg from YES Prep on October 7th at Spanish Flowers Mexican Restaurant in The Heights from 5-7p. Each board member proudly wore their name tag with slogans like, "I love wedding video and kids!" or "I love motion graphics and kids!" or "I love legal video and kids!". The board has a lot of fun poking at each other. At the meeting, we introduced everyone on the Board, assign months for presentations to the students, and discuss future of board. The enthusiasm for this local business and student participation concept was outstanding! All of the Advisory Board is excited to begin this charter year to connect with the Yes! students. Currently, The Advisory Board has 2 programs:
1) Yes! Learning days
2) Yes! Internships during weekends and summer



The Advisory Board will base its involvement with YES Prep Northeast on these 2 programs. Additionally, The Board has discussed the potential for day long film festivals, during school internships, and other ideas to build on as the relationship with The Advisory Board and YES Prep matures. We are very excited to have such talented businesses share their expertise and experiences with YES Prep.

2009-2011 Advisory Board Members are:

Permanent Directors - Craig Brandenburg, Mark Dibella
Rotating Director - Jack Perry, Perry Video & Photography
Officers - Ken Kosub - XL Films
Trevor Brock - Legal Media
Pam Radford - Legal Media
Harrison Smith - Neko Neko Films
Mike Alderer - Title Safe
Scott Szabo - Szabo Sound and Music
Kevin Fitzpatrick - Brain Wavz Graphics

Just like Andrea Rodriguez trained and worked with Perry Video & Photography 2 years ago, more YES Prep students are eager to take advantage of these wonderful connections and learning opportunities with the Advisory Board Businesses.


Boiler Plate:
YES Prep Public Schools are Houston area Charter School nationally ranked for it's entrepreneurial approach to teaching high school students. At YES Prep Northeast Campus, they have a very unique video production program. In the past 2 yrs, they have even formed a business for the students within the school. All money earned goes back to the Video program. In 2009, The Advisory Board for YBlazers Studios was created to connect local Houston, Texas video production companies with the students for learning days and internships.

Winnie Couture Bridal Salon - Fall Fashion Show -Houston Wedding Dress

Julie and I got the opportunity to work with the very talented Winne Lee, owner of Winnie Couture Bridal Salon. She designs wedding dresses and bridesmaids dresses that retail in stores all over the nation and world. She held her fall fashion show this past Friday. Perry Video and Photo was the official photographer and videographer for the event. Great show! Check out the pics...

That's Winnie in the back

More Winnie with the models

Our new friend Laura Lehner, who we found out
actually works with Jack at Greenwood King!



Winnie celebrated at the end of a good show

Perry Studios - Now Offering Wedding and Portrait Photography Services!

Perry Family

Been a while since we last blogged for Perry Video and Photo. Our young babies (Jackson age 3.5 and Annie age 1.5) have a lot to do with that. Blogging regularly is not as easy as it has been before.



But we're back blogging regularly. We'll see how this goes...





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The best news we have for Perry Studios is that we now offer fine portrait and photojournalism photography in addition to video productions. Perry Video Productions is now doing business as Perry Video and Photo or Perry Studios. Admittedly, we have kinda a name identity crisis. We just like taking pictures and video. Tough to stick to just one name. Maybe we could just be like "Madonna", "Sting", or "Prince". Haha, Ya, I like that. Let's stick with that and just be "Perry" ;)

In 2008, we will launch a site dedicated specifically to fine portrait and photojournalism photography. It will be a nice flash site, likely. Check out our blog and www.perryvideophoto.com site for a link to the new one.




Here are some great Perry Photography pictures from 2007 Houston weddings:


































2007 Wedding Engagment Portraits.



















































March 2007 wedding at Chateau Polenez in North Houston.






































More 2007 Portraits...

































Thank you for taking a look at our work and beautiful brides/couples! Photography has been the most fascinating new part of our wedding and event business. We look forward to many more years of photography in Houston!

- Jack & Julie

Briscoe Manor Wedding Highlight - Houston, Texas

November 18, 2006
Wedding video highlight
Briscoe Manor
Richmond, Texas





Enjoy!
Julie
Houston Wedding Videographer

2003 Wedding Video - Chapelwood and Hobby Center

Here is a beautiful wedding that was held at Chapelwood United Methodist and The Hobby Center for The Performing Arts. We thought we would resurrect to update our blog.

The couple here is Sarah and Brian Austin. We still get to see them at weddings these days when they refer us to their friends. Thanks guys!

Enjoy!
Julie

Blanca and Andrew Silva-Solis Wedding - Fall 2005

Below is an e-mail from one of our sweet brides, Blanca Silva-Solis. Her wedding video turned out so nicely. Julie did such a great job with the editing. We got the fun opportunity to deliver it to her and her husband on Valentines day. Read below.

Hello Perry Family!

WOW! This is simply the only way I can start to describe how I feel about our video. It was unbelievable we were so happy to get it on Valentine's day THANK YOU so much for going the extra mile to meet us. It was great to watch it on our 1 year engagement anniversary right behind our 3 month wedding anniversary. It was phenomenal work. I was confident that the video was going to be nice, but I had no idea that it would look like a sample video! It was awesome. My parents and sisters have seen and we all laughed and cried. You truly captured the essence of how close I am with my parents and sisters. Thank you so much. My dad says he can't wait to get his copy so he can watch it everyday! I cannot thank you enough, it was truly amazing work. Julie and Jack you have a real talent for video filming and production. May God Bless you with above and beyond success in your business. Know that I will recommend you as the #1 for wedding videos to everyone that I talk to. As a last minute decision (remember I was lucky enough to book you like 30 days before the wedding) it was the BEST wedding decision after saying YES to Andrew. Thank you again. We feel very fortunate to have found ya'll. If I can help in talking to any future brides please let me know. Also feel free to use our footage for promotional purposes as well.

Again THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

Blanca E. Silva-Solis

Traci and Steve Theis wedding - January 28, 2006

On Saturday, January 28, 2006, the wedding ceremony of Traci and Steve Theis was celebrated by nearly 200 guests. The wedding ceremony was held at West University United Methodist Church. The reception following was at The Bella Terraza.

Many out of town guests celebrated this wonderful occasion with Steve and Traci. Steve's groomsmen and ushers--all 10 of them--traveled from different areas of Ohio to stand by Steve as he accepted Traci's hand in marriage.

That Saturday was filled with heavy rain. Thankfully, the rainy day ended at just the right time for Steve and Traci. Around 5:00, the Saturday rain eased up and the sun began to set just before the 5:30 wedding ceremony of Traci Payne and Steve Theis.

What impressed me the most, was the heartfelt devotion that Steve showed for Traci. It is very touching to see the heart of such a devoted spouse. Steve's reaction when Traci made her way down the center isle tells it all. Take a look at the below clip.



The reception was great fun! Evoke Photography was present. They always do a great job documenting the fun and dancing. James Levine with Dynamic Entertainment was the DJ. James is a smooth cat. He knows how to get the crowd dancing. Great to work with James again. Heather with The Bella Terraza as always gave top notch service to her clients and their guests. Traci and Steve had lots of fun! Steve really liked his rasberry amaretto cake. He forced me to try it, so I did. Yummmm!


Congratulations, Steve and Traci!


videojournalism by
Jack Perry
Julie Perry

Dan and Carrie Victor Wedding - January 14, 2006

Last night, Saturday, January 14, 2006, in front of a count of close to 300 wedding guests, we celebrated the marriage of Dan and Carrie Victor.

Dan and Carrie met each other about 2-4 years ago through mutual friends at a Cajun Crawfish Party. (sorry that my time reference is off, guys! My wife, Julie, likely knows the time exactly. She's the Math major and detail better half ;) )

Dan and Carrie are dear people. It was a pleasure to be around their families during their wedding day. It is no surprise how wonderful people find each other to make great couples.

The wedding ceremony was held at The Woodlands United Methodist Church. Shortly after 6:00pm, Carrie and her father walked the beautiful candle lit isle to give her hand in marriage to Dan Victor.

Following the ceremony, they proceded to the reception held at The Woodlands Resort and Conference Center. If you have never been to The Woodlands Resort and Conference Center, make sure to check it out! It is a beautiful wedding destination. The staff that work the events there have known Julie and me for years. They are very professional and take great care of their event clients.

Music for the reception was provided by Robin with Rock-N-Robin Entertainment. Photography by Magnolia. Both great to work with.

At close to midnight, Carrie let Robin know that it was about time to close the party down and head to the bar downstairs with their friends.

Dan and Carrie will be honeymooning in Hawaii. Dan says no surfing, although it would be cool to say that he was. He'll stick with body boarding.

Congratulations to Dan and Carrie!

Jack




(see video link near the end of the week for "next day highlight").

Dan and Carrie Victor Rehearsal Dinner - January 13, 2006

Friday, January 13, 2006 the Victor and Hansen family celebrated the rehearsal dinner of Dan and Carrie, soon to be Victor. I filmed the rehearsal dinner and worked as technician for LCD projector, DVD player, speakers, and screen of the photo montage of Dan and Carrie Victor. The Rehearsal Dinner was held at The Grotto in The Woodlands. Special toasts were made from Dan and Carrie to their friends as well as from their friends and family to Dan and Carrie.

One of the toasts that stuck out with me as an extra special one was the one from Carrie to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hansen. Follow this clip for a special moment of the rehearsal dinner.

Jack

Kelly and Lee Russell- January 7, 2006 wedding

(Thank you to Carolina with K&C Photography for helping us color correct these video stills!)

One word comes to mind to describe this wedding LOTS OF FUN! (oh, that's three words. So much fun, I just could not keep it to one :)

Last night, Julie and I filmed the wedding of Kelly and Lee Russell. Surrounded by nearly 400 guests, Kelly and Lee celebrated their wedding in style.

The evening wedding ceremony was held at St. Teresa Catholic Church near Memorial Park. During the ceremony, the pastor encouraged them with this message, "The two of you will become partners with God. Together you can make God's love shown around the world by the simple way that you love each other." Accompanying the message of the ceremony was the sound of the Fort Bend Boy's Choir.

Following the ceremony, the reception was held at The Forest Club. They had a great cover band from Austin. That played a good mix of old dance music. I can't remember the name?? Everyone danced quite a bit. Steve Schmidt Photography (I hope I spelled that right--Schmidt??) was great to work with. I look forward to seeing the pictures.

At about 12:15, Kelly and Lee made their way to the exit led by friends, family, and lots of rose petals.
At the bottom you'll find the "next day highlight" clip of the exit footage.)

Congratulations, Kelly and Lee!

Jack & Julie

Josh and Nicole - December 30, 2005 wedding

It has been 3 days since the wedding of Josh and Nicole. This was the 2nd time to work with this family. In spring of 2004, we filmed the wedding of Josh's sister. A true honor to be asked back to such a special occasion.

The wedding was held at River Oaks Baptist Church and The Houston Club on Rusk downtown. I have been tied up a bit with 2006 New Year fun and relaxation, so I'm just getting around to posting comments about their wedding.

After each wedding for 2006, Julie and I have committed to posting a short "next day" 1 minute video highlight and some memorable quotes from the wedding day. It's our new years resolution, so we'll see how it goes :)

Josh and Nicole have known each other since Junior High, so this wedding was indeed a special union of two people made for each other. From the sermon that was preached for these two lovebirds, 2 quotes most stand out in my memory.

"Keep a record of the past in pencil, not pen. Make sure that you can erase it easily and move forward with your relationship together".

"In all of my years, I have never met a more perfect couple for each other."

Below is the link to the short "next day" highlight we uploaded to Google Video. Cheers!

Jack


Next Day Highlight
(The compression on this video came out a bit pixelated. It is best viewed as a small video, so shrink your google video screen a bit.)