Glad Films

10/08/2023

https://canvasrebel.com/meet-dereje-deres/

We're excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Dereje Deres. We hope you'll enjoy our conversation with Dereje below. Dereje, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today How did you learn to do what you do? Knowing what you know now, what could you have do...

26/07/2023

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11/06/2023

Lisa and Ben's wedding was a classic little girl's dream. Stunning gown, dreamy getaway car, and a bubble exit outside a big white chapel. most importantly it was full of love! Their wedding was classy and so much fun to capture!

it's always a pleasure to work with the team at Sweetgrass Social and Kiawah Island Club

13/02/2023

Making memories that will last a life time, one frame at a time 🎥🫶🎦

20/01/2023

Kate and Hudson

It didn’t take long after meeting Kate and Hudson and their families to see what an extraordinary match they are.

Their wedding day was thoughtfully classy, heartfelt, and a big party!

It was a celebration of the love story they’d been writing since their teenage years. Love that grows up with you is undoubtedly something to treasure!

We also enjoyed working with the people they chose to work with for their big day.

Photographer
Picking Daisies Photography

We wish Hudson and Kate and their families all the best!

22/11/2022

As Hurricane Ian made its way up the east coast, we closely watched the forecast. We had two weddings booked for the upcoming weekend and were crossing our fingers and feeling for the couples we knew were also anxiously watching and waiting.

Katie and Mark had to make the difficult call to move their wedding from Friday to Thursday with only a day's notice!

Anyone who has planned a wedding or been a part of one can probably vividly imagine the insanity of getting all the vendors and caterers, and guests for a big wedding a day earlier.

But they all navigated this crazy situation with such ease you would have thought they’d done it a thousand times before. If it were not for the somehow appropriately timed emergency alerts that chimed throughout the night, you wouldn’t know anything was out of place!

We’ve been lucky enough to do two weddings this year with the Bugas family. Pat and Kelly and Marc and Katie. One thing that stood out was how poignant, and well-thought-out the Bugas brother's speeches were. They are all in our unofficial wedding speech hall of fame. Our 3-year-old daughter Keneni also says that this is her wedding video, and she is now continuously quoting lines from the speeches. Particularly “a head-but that turns into a gentle nuzzle.”

We love these people and wish them all the best!

It was a pleasure to work with the talented and creative photographer.

Kiawah Island Golf Resort staff should get some wedding vendor of the year awards for their ability to make this wedding happen seamlessly!

The band Travis Allison Band lit up the night with their amazing vibes and killer vocals.

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12/10/2022

We got published!

Today we’d like to introduce you to Glad (Dereje) Deres. Hi Dereje, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today? I was born and raised in and lived most of my life in the capital city of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. I was always […]

28/09/2022

Sarah and Greg marked their wedding day with a classy black tie optional celebration set to the backdrop of one of Charleston’s most picturesque venues, Lowndes Grove. Their wedding day was elegant, classy, heartfelt, and so much fun.

It was great to be a part of their lovely day.

Sarah and Greg chose some amazing vendors to help make their day happen!

PaperDolls - Wedding Hair & Makeup - Stunning hair and makeup.

We really enjoyed working with Dana Cubbage Weddings who did the photos.

Sweetgrass Social - Kept us all on time and organized. It's always a pleasure to work with Samantha and her team!

We're blown away every time we get to hear - Motown Throwdown

Lowndes Grove is such a beautiful venue and Branch Design Studio topped it off with some gorgeous florals!

15/07/2022

Something we love about weddings is the traditions and rituals that families choose to celebrate and honor. There’s something about performing a ritual that has been celebrated for generations and experiencing the feelings of connection and belonging that come up.

Oftentimes people use the word blending to describe culture-combo weddings. To me Kanika and Ethan’s wedding felt like a harmonizing as opposed to a blending of cultures. They each had their unique representations, rituals and elements that were wholly and completely honored.

It’s not surprising though after spending just a bit of time with Kanika and Ethan. They are such beautiful bright people individually and their personalities just harmonize, in that they are simultaneously remarkable together.

We loved doing this wedding for so many reasons! It was a wonderful surprise for us to finally have the chance to work alongside the insanely talented Kim (A Cottage Gardener) who did florals (and so much more) for our own wedding almost 7 years ago!

And as always wonderful working with Donielle and her team from Elegant Events! Elegant Events Planning + Design

Kanika Ramchandani and Ethan

Venues-

Bartram's Garden
Swan Club On The Harbor

08/01/2022

Elliot and Matthew’s wedding was a heartfelt celebration of their love for each other and their love of the arts, community and culture!

Their shared love of the city of Philadelphia, which brought them together, was elegantly infused throughout their celebration.

Friends and family came together in meaningful ways, offering up their art, music, and poetry.

We are so thankful for the opportunity that it was to capture all the beautiful moments from their day!

Elliot Griffin & Matt Stitt

Elegant Events Planning & Design
The Notary Hotel, Autograph Collection
PAFA The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Ryan Abney
Fine Living Studios

10/12/2021

We had so much fun working with Christiana and Joe to capture their intimate family wedding.

The Wentworth Mansion was such a charming backdrop as Joe and Christiana exchanged their vows in front of their loved ones.

Christiana and Joe have such pure and enchanting love for one another. It brought us so much joy to witness and document it!

25/03/2021

When Krutika and Brad approached us a few months ago for their Indian-American wedding. We had never done an Indian wedding before and we were so excited for the opportunity.

After meeting on a dating app called Coffee Meets Bagel Krutika and Brad were how things easily fell into place. As their lives wove together over time, they traveled to India together and sometime later decided they wanted to have coffee and bagels with each other forever.

It’s difficult to overstate the labors and love by so many that were put into every detail of this wedding! Down to every Bindi, piece of jewelry and decor!

It was so special to watch as each of Krutika’s bridesmaids were dressed in lehengas that had been custom made by family/friends in India. Krutika’s mom (a real-life superwoman who we are completely obsessed with) and her Aunt meticulously helped each bridesmaid wrap their stoles just right, put on all their jewelry, and made sure everything looked perfect!

Also, I don’t think we’ve ever seen Guests as FABULOUSLY dressed as we saw at this wedding! Dressed in all the colors of the rainbow, everyone showed up in their best and ready to party!

All the guests were welcomed into the celebration. Krutika’s brother Dhir and Mom patiently ;-) took on the responsibility to acquaint everyone with the traditional Dandiya or stick dance.

“OK everyone we’re going to demonstrate this ONCE!” -Dhir

After some trial and error with lots of practice and help from the pros on the dance floor, everyone did just fine and seemed to have lots of fun in the process!

There are so many things we could say about this wedding. But I’ll just say sometimes we do weddings and we don’t want to leave because we fall in love with the couple and their family! This was one of those times! x

Krutika and Brad, We hope you love these highlights from your beautiful day(s)!

(yep we know it's 8 minutes long haha! but there was just too much good stuff!)

Also, check out the couple’s youtube channel. Because they’re super cute and really really smart!

Life with Tika & Brad

18/02/2021

It's hard to believe this day was 1 year ago!

This film was an opportunity for me to check something off my bucket list. Capturing this beautiful couple with this otherworldly scenery was such a dream.

Finding these opportunities to add another layer and dimension to the telling of a love story is what we are all about. Because, when a couple's story blends so well with the scenery and location, that's where magic happens.

Logistically there's not always time to do these kinds of shots on the day of the wedding. We actually filmed the canyon footage the day after their wedding.

We are always up for adventures!

Happy Aniversay Benji Wolde & Bethany Steele