Planning In Loving Memory

The stars aligned in my favor when my husband and I were looking for a wedding planner and found Eyal Tessler and Leslie Price of In Any Event. We knew right away that Eyal and Leslie were the perfect duo to hatch the wedding of our dreams. They are experts in creating flawless events that reflect your personal style. Working together, they are the ying to your yang when helping you dream up your event along with making all of those wedding planning decisions.

In addition to just gushing about their brilliance, I am thrilled to share a wonderful article in today's Mitzvah Market written by Leslie Price. She has some creative tips for paying tribute to someone special who is deceased at your special event. Enjoy!

Mitzvah Market Madness

We are thrilled to be featured on Mitzvah Market again today as the trailblazers for a new bar/bat mitzvah trend-the candle lighting film! Get on the train, the candle lighting film concept is taking off!

Click here to see the article here.

It's personal.

I'm taking a short break from unveiling all of our new exciting films to talk about something personal....your wedding.

Although it seems like ages ago that I was planning my own wedding (almost 2 years!), there is one lesson that continues to resonate looking back at my own and when advising new brides today-make it personal!

We all know that wedding planning can be quite overwhelming, especially when moms, future mom-in-laws, bridesmaids, etc... chime in. Everyone wants the best for you on your wedding day, but remember only you know what that is. While brides won't not win every battle against mom, it is imperative to sit down with your fiance and pick one, two or three elements about your wedding that are MOST important to you and make them your own. Maybe it's something that illustrates you and your fiance's journey like the sunflowers he gives you every year for your birthday or maybe it's postcards on each table of all of the places you have been together. For us, a book of recipes including our mom's signature dishes to share with our guests topped our list along with a couple of others including dinner menu items and, of course, our Love Story film.

There are so many decisions to make and so many opinions to keep in mind, but as long as you have those few things that are completely yours, all of the other decisions will be much easier compromised. So go for it, make it personal.

Will you light my candle?

Rewind Pictures is always creating fresh, new film concepts aimed at blowing the socks off of the guests at your event. We have been brewing up a new film concept for the Bar/Bat Mitzvah and recently had the opportunity to execute our new idea. And so, Rewind Pictures is proud to present a new option in Bar/Bat Mitzvah planning---THE CANDLE LIGHTING FILM.

Whether you are attending a Bar or Bat Mitzvah, in the country or the city, big or small, there are two elements that usually appear at every Bar/Bat Mitzvah celebration- the photo montage and the candle lighting ceremony. While both add personality and emotion to the celebration, having both can sometimes take up a lot of precious event time and let's face it, can lean on the boring side for guests. So, why not combine the two together? By melding the two concepts, you have the ability to combine two very important ideas-paying tribute to the little boy or girl that just became an adult as well as honoring those around him/her that influenced and loved them along the way!

So how does it work? Take a look at our premiere film and call us for more information. This CANDLE LIGHTING FILM is coming to a Bar or Bat Mitzvah near you! !

The perfect birthday gift

This week marks the return of my annual birthday bonanza season. My mother, sister and husband all happen to celebrate their birthdays within a week of each other and every year I find myself brainstorming to find the perfect presents for all of them. All of this hair pulling has reminded me of a great birthday present we were able to provide for one special lady. It is one of our favorite films that we made last year in honor of this lovely woman's milestone 75th birthday commissioned by her children. And in honor of this birthday bonanza,I thought this to be the perfect moment to share it with all of you!

This film was actually one of three films we created for our client's birthday celebration in January 2009 at Del Posto restaurant (yum!) in New York City. In addition to the tribute film, we also created a photo montage that ran silently through cocktail hour and a video medley of musical numbers performed by her grandchildren to top of the night. By debuting the films at different points in the evening, they provided a distinct way to involve the guests in paying tribute to the honoree throughout the celebration.

We were thrilled to attend the event as we also filmed the beautiful speeches that were given throughout the night. It was a true gift for us to see our work in action!

Now we all know that a tribute film isn't attainable as an annual and frequent present, but when a special milestone birthday for a loved one comes up, there is nothing that beats a tribute film honoring him/her!

We're on the list!

Rewind Pictures is honored to be listed again in the ever illustrious New York Magazine Weddings and Online Directory Vendor Listings for Summer 2010. For those that live here and elsewhere, you can always count on this resource to give you the best of the best advice and vendor recommendations when planning your wedding or special event. We are honored to be in the company of so many other talented event professionals!

See our listing here

Mapping out a great wedding montage

We have been busy little bees over here at Rewind Pictures recently...and we couldn't be happier! Do you hear the bells ringing? It's wedding season!

Recently, we had the chance to work with the sister of a groom who scoped us out searching for a clean, creative montage to be shown at a rehearsal dinner before a grand destination wedding in Mexico for her brother and his adorable soon to be wife!

Our client put a lot of thought and work into her vision for the montage before even contacting us (we love that!). She gathered and sorted 100 of the best photos that represented several stages of the bride and groom's journey separately and together. She also consulted with the bride and groom on music selections that might be appropriate for the film. By the time we met with our client for the first time, she was completely ready to go, giving us a clear direction and a feeling for the style she wished to have in the montage. What was missing was that personalize touch that would separate the montage from the rest... that Rewind Pictures touch!

We asked our client to share the bride and groom's love story knowing that this would be key to finding the missing element for the montage. Turns out that the bride and groom have known each other since they were children, were friends throughout high school, even went to each other's prom, but never dated until several cities later when both ended up in Los Angeles. We detected a theme and created a graphic element to represent it and the results are below...

We think it's super cute and results are in from the married couple...apparently we hit a home run! What do you think?