Hi, I’m Sergio, the one who doesn’t seem to know that they’re taking a photo of him.
I’m a wedding videographer because they make me cry.
Yes, I cry at some weddings.
Look, don’t get me wrong.
I don’t cry all day.
But as you know, a wedding is a collection of emotions.
Since I don’t have grandparents and since I’m a father, I get emotional more easily.
For example, when they give a bouquet of flowers to the grandmothers at a wedding, I cry, hiding behind the camera.
I can’t control it.
The tears flood the camera’s viewfinder without permission and I can’t see well, but I pretend and continue recording.
I realize how much I miss them, and how lucky the bride and groom are to have them.
When important people are missing from our lives, it is most noticeable at a wedding.
Often in the midst of celebration, I get emotional thinking about what my children’s wedding would be like. They’re teenagers now, but maybe one day they’ll get married.
When a couple is given an album of their childhood memories, I think about my children, when they were little, of those wonderful years, and how intense it is to feel life passing by.
And at weddings, you feel life, and a lot of it.
It’s something curious, but during the wedding day, you see the couples in their essence, their relationship with their family, with their friends, the love they have for each other,
You can see everything. (If you pay attention, of course)
I work surrounded by happy people, dammit!
I don’t want you to think that I’m a sensitive person who goes through life caressing little flowers.
Nothing like that.
But all this that I’m telling you is what hooks me and what has made me make wedding videos for 20 years and continue enjoying them.
Also when editing. When I select and put in order all the moments lived, and I mix them with music and words, I get emotional again.
(Yes, again…)
And that’s when I know I’m doing it right, and I know how lucky I am to be able to contribute my grain of sand, creating a document of high value for those couples, for those families.
Forever.