ELOPEMENT

COLLECTIONS

Some days are meant to stay small. An elopement is not a shorter wedding, it is its own thing entirely: two people, the few who matter most, and a day built around presence rather than scale. These collections are built for that kind of day, with David personally behind the camera for every one of them.

On your day, you will not be directed through a shot list or pulled away from the two of you for long stretches. David is behind the camera the entire time, present without making his presence felt. His attention stays on what is actually happening between you, not on manufacturing moments for footage. A single perspective, present from the first hour to the last, gives the finished film a coherence that is difficult to manufacture. It feels specific to your day because it was made that way.

Afterward, the work of building your film begins. David works through everything captured that day, searching for the thread of what actually happened rather than forcing a story onto the footage. The film is shaped around your day, not a formula.

EXPLORE THE COLLECTIONS

Collection One - Investment $3,500

  • Four hours is enough to hold the heart of the day: the ceremony itself, the portraits after, and the quiet in between. For an elopement, that is often the whole of it. Nothing rushed, nothing missing.

  • This is a personal collection. David will be there, one artistic vision guiding the entire day, every frame a deliberate choice made in the moment. There is a coherence that comes from that, a film that feels like it was truly seen rather than simply covered. A single perspective, present from the first hour to the last, gives the finished film something that is difficult to manufacture. It feels specific to your day because it was made that way.

  • Where the location and conditions allow, aerial footage is incorporated to give your film a genuine sense of place. The landscape, the setting, the scale of where your day unfolded. It is never used as spectacle. It is used as context, a way of grounding the film in the world your day actually existed inside. When it works, it works quietly.

  • At two to three minutes, the highlight film holds only what belongs. A distilled, feeling-first cut of your day, built around the moments that mattered rather than a chronological record of everything that happened.

  • Your film is delivered through a private, beautifully presented online gallery. It is easy to revisit on any device and simple to share with the people who were there and the ones who wish they had been. Everything lives in one place, organized and ready whenever you want to return to it. The gallery is yours to keep.

Collection Two - Investment $4,500

  • Six hours gives the day more room to unfold: time before the ceremony to settle in, the ceremony itself, portraits, and space afterward for whatever the two of you have planned, a hike, a dinner, a second location. There is less pressure to move quickly from one moment to the next.

  • This is a personal collection. David will be there, one artistic vision guiding the entire day, every frame a deliberate choice made in the moment. There is a coherence that comes from that, a film that feels like it was truly seen rather than simply covered. A single perspective, present from the first hour to the last, gives the finished film something that is difficult to manufacture. It feels specific to your day because it was made that way.

  • Where the location and conditions allow, aerial footage is incorporated to give your film a genuine sense of place. The landscape, the setting, the scale of where your day unfolded. It is never used as spectacle. It is used as context, a way of grounding the film in the world your day actually existed inside. When it works, it works quietly.

  • At three to four minutes, the highlight film has a little more room to breathe. Enough space to let a vow, a toast, or a quiet exchange between the two of you play out rather than being cut short, while still holding the pace of a highlight film rather than a full length one.

  • Your film is delivered through a private, beautifully presented online gallery. It is easy to revisit on any device and simple to share with the people who were there and the ones who wish they had been. Everything lives in one place, organized and ready whenever you want to return to it. The gallery is yours to keep.

Collection Three - Investment $6,500

  • Eight hours holds the full shape of the day, from the quiet of getting ready through the ceremony and into however you choose to celebrate afterward. On a smaller day like this, that kind of time changes what gets captured. There is room for the unscripted moments no one planned for, and for the day to actually breathe.

  • This is a personal collection. David will be there, one artistic vision guiding the entire day, every frame a deliberate choice made in the moment. There is a coherence that comes from that, a film that feels like it was truly seen rather than simply covered. A single perspective, present from the first hour to the last, gives the finished film something that is difficult to manufacture. It feels specific to your day because it was made that way.

  • Where the location and conditions allow, aerial footage is incorporated to give your film a genuine sense of place. The landscape, the setting, the scale of where your day unfolded. It is never used as spectacle. It is used as context, a way of grounding the film in the world your day actually existed inside. When it works, it works quietly.

  • At five to seven minutes, the highlight film has enough room to actually tell your story rather than gesture at it. There is space for more of what was said rather than only what it looked like, more of the day's actual pacing, and more of the people who were there with you. It plays less like a highlight and more like the day itself, remembered.

  • The complete, unedited film of your ceremony from start to finish. Every word said, exactly as it was said. For a day built around so few words spoken to so few people, having all of them preserved matters.

  • Your film is delivered through a private, beautifully presented online gallery. It is easy to revisit on any device and simple to share with the people who were there and the ones who wish they had been. Everything lives in one place, organized and ready whenever you want to return to it. The gallery is yours to keep.

THE ENHANCEMENTS

These additions are available alongside any collection, for couples who want a little more of their day preserved.

  • The complete, unedited film of your ceremony from start to finish. Every word said, exactly as it was said. For a day built around so few words spoken to so few people, having all of them preserved matters. Included automatically in Collection Three, and available as an addition to Collection One or Two.

  • The complete film of your toasts and speeches, captured in full. If anyone stands to say a few words on your day, this is where those words live on in full, rather than a fleeting moment from them.

  • A sixty second film, complete in itself, delivered within ten days of your day. Not a preview of what's coming, but a single feeling distilled from the day, ready to share almost immediately.

  • Extra time when a longer day calls for it: more time to get ready, more time to celebrate, more time for whatever this specific day happens to need. Added directly onto whichever collection you choose.

Thank you for taking the time to look through the collections. If something here feels right, David would love to hear about your day. Reply to his last email, or reach out directly at david@davidorlandofilms.com, and you can go from there together.

A $1,500 retainer secures your date. The remaining balance is due thirty days before your elopement. All travel is included within Northern California.