Chanberry Films · Wedding Films Since 2012
Story-driven wedding films built around your real voices — the vows, the laughter, the toast that broke the room. Not a song laid over pretty clips.
The Approach
A wedding film shouldn't just replay your day. It should let you feel it again.
Most wedding videos are a song laid over pretty clips. I build films the other way around — starting with sound. Your vows. The speeches. The quiet things said between just the two of you. Then I cut the images to match the feeling, so years from now you can close your eyes and still be there.
Your real voices carry the film — vows and toasts recorded properly, not muffled under music. It's the difference between watching your day and reliving it.
A decade of documentary and brand work taught me to find the real moment and stay out of its way. Unstaged, unhurried, honest to who you are.
Every film is shaped like a short documentary about two people — a beginning, a middle and an ending you'll want to return to for the rest of your life.
Featured Film
My most recent wedding film — and the clearest picture of where Chanberry Films is headed: intimate, sound-led, and unhurried.
Press play and turn the sound on. The film is carried by their own voices — that's the whole idea.
The Work
A few more films across the years. My earliest weddings taught me the craft; the story-first approach above is where it's all been heading.
Kind Words
The video made us both cry — thank you so much. We love it.
— The CoupleThe wedding film is magnificent. Thank you.
— Mother of the BrideOMG — I'm crying at work. So, so beautiful.
— A Wedding GuestSo sorry we missed the wedding — but now we feel like we were there.
— A Wedding GuestThe Filmmaker
I've been a filmmaker for fifteen years. I started shooting weddings in 2012, and spent the years since making documentary and brand films — work that quietly changed how I see a wedding day.
I stopped seeing it as a highlight reel to set to music, and started seeing it as a short documentary about two people. So I'm taking on a small, careful number of weddings again — with better gear, a sharper eye, and a story-first approach I simply couldn't have offered a decade ago.
If that's the kind of film you want — one built from your real voices, that still moves you years from now — I'd love to hear about your day.
Jonathan
Based in Rockville, Maryland · filming across DC, Maryland, Virginia & wherever your story leads.
Inquire
Tell me a little about your day and I'll be in touch personally. No pressure, no hard sell — just a conversation.