John Bunn

18/08/2024

Back in the 🇺🇸 after an incredible week in Canada with a family vacation and helping shoot a wedding with . Was able to do a sunrise hike up to moraine lake, and also go to lake Louise. We rode a gondola to the top of a mountain in Banff, and so much more. Huge shout out to and for organizing the trip for me and helping be my travel agents. Our family is exhausted but our tank is refilled. Thankful for this life I get to live. Can not wait to share footage from the trip 🎥

17/08/2024

Not going to lie, Canada was a dream 🇨🇦
Back in the USA after 7 days in Canada, and the week before 10 days in Montana. Ready to get back home and get in a routine. But thankful for the time with my family.

13/08/2024

Canada 🇨🇦

There’s something about being surrounded by God’s incredible creation that fuels the deepest part of my soul. Standing in front of this unreal lake, surrounded by God’s beauty, I’m reminded of how small I am, and am assured that He is in control.

📸 My daughter Anna

22/02/2024

Do you ever get out of rhythm in your life? I feel like it is never intentional but sometimes we let little things slide here or there. After a while, you realize you’re not motivated, you feel burned out, and you’re completely out of rhythm.

Sometimes getting out of rhythm is out of your control. That was me in 2023. So many things happened to me that I wasn’t asking for. So many curve balls. I found myself out of a rhythm.

Physically, I wasn’t eating the right foods. I wasn’t sleeping as well. I stopped going on walks every day. I slowly gained 15lbs.
Creatively, I was working hard, but not smart. I had stopped planning out my days in my planner, I wasn’t intentional with my time, and I got behind on everything.
I was just exhausted so I wasn’t as present as I needed to be with my family.
I found myself glued to my phone, instead of being present.

I’m honestly not sure how it happened. I didn’t wake up and think… I want to get out of a rhythm. I want to get out of shape. I want to gain wait. But there I was..

Moving into 2024, I decided it was time to get back on track. Some of the things that were causing me to get out of a rhythm were solved, & I was teed up to get my stuff together.
It has been HARD, but worth the pain
Little by little I’ve gotten my life back. I started by setting my alarm a little earlier & getting to the gym earlier, I found a food service that delivers healthy meals to my house, I started reading every morning, walking every day, writing out my schedule each week, and the list continues to grow.

I’m back in my rhythm. But it just started with one simple change. Not a massive overhaul.

In the last month I’ve been so intentional. I’ve lost almost 8lbs, I’ve read 2.5 books, I’ve written and recoded 13 podcasts, I’ve ran 35 miles (a little over a mile a day at the gym), and most importantly I’ve been present with my family. It’s not perfect, but it’s more intentional every day.

We started our mastermind group this week and we are labeling it a “year of intention.”

Where are you out of rhythm in your life? What 1 small change do you need to make today?

I am now feeling momentum, and can’t wait to see the next 30 days!

09/02/2024

I feel as if I’ve moved into a new chapter of life. Maybe even new book. 2023 proved to be quite challenging for me. I started to uncover some things about me that I knew I needed to work on.

When Heather and I got married, I was 20, and I was making $2500/month and had $2200/month in student loan debt payments. I was painted into a corner, and honestly had no idea what I should do.

I wanted to quit, but little by little I made decisions that helped me grow as a business person. It was always pedal to the metal. It was always survival mode. And after 17 years of that, I knew no other mode.

We grow up in the home we grow up in. We are part of the family we were born into. We learn what we learn. The things we miss out on, sometimes get ingrained into us without realizing it.

This past year a lot of the things in me came to the surface. I’m a classic workaholic, a people pleaser, and a bulldozer when it comes to my ideas being the right ones. I’m passive, sarcastic, and until 2023 didn’t really know how to express my feelings, or even feel them for that matter.

I spent a lot of time resetting in 2023.

I don’t have my back against the wall anymore with my finances. Life is going to be fine if I rest.

In the fall, we decided that had grown to a place we didn’t like. We had too many things going on, trying to be all things to all people.

So we decided to make a shift. We started by recording our course again, and went all in. The content is MUCH better. Then, we went extra hard to finish out our mastermind year with as much added value.

Our retreat was the next thing to change. It was much more intentional. Room for people to grow. Room for people to breathe. Time for me to look people in the eyes and connect.

Fast forward to the launch of our 2024 mastermind class, and we did it completely different. It was full of peace. I didn’t push hard or twist arms. We developed what we think is a great product, then executed it with the entire team in a way that was enjoyable.

We now have over 50 more wedding filmmaking businesses joining us. I’m more than excited for 2024, and to continuing to work on me. 🫶🏻

31/10/2023

39. Walking into my last year of my 30s with confidence, knowing I’m following God. 38 was a very difficult year, both personally and professionally. So many curve balls thrown at me and Heather. But as I was talking to her the other day I said, “I wouldn’t go back and change it if I could.” So many unwanted hiccups in our plans, but to be honest, it feels like God was molding me and crafting me into the man He needs me to be. I’m a more patient person now, I have more reliance on Him, and I’m more confident in the leader He needs me to be. I’m so thankful for my family, my friends, and this life I get to live. Excited to see how the journey unfolds in my 39th year. 🫶🏻

20/10/2023

Spending the week in Kansas City recording an updated course for . Much needed course update, but more importantly much needed time to hang with .nickmiller and . Seriously excited about how far we’ve come since we recorded our first course 4 years ago. Thankful I didn’t listen to the doubters, telling us we couldn’t help people or that we weren’t educators. Thankful for the HTFW community, and for this life I get to live. Stay tuned for early November as we drop The How To Film Weddings Course. 🎥

24/09/2023

2 weeks ago I put my phone on “do not disturb.” It was so refreshing to just take some time and breathe. What I’m realizing, is that I spend way too much time worrying about things in my life that I can’t control.
I’ve been doing a lot of deep thinking as to what legacy I want to leave in life. I have realized that I’ve been pushing too hard, still.
Over the past 9 months, I’ve done some major restructuring in my life and my business, all focused on better quality, and less quantity.
I was praying the other day, and kept realizing that I haven’t left room to “be still” like I should have. The main culprit.. this stupid phone.
In the last two weeks I’ve been more present than ever, read almost 2 books, daily been in The Word, daily prayers; daily time with Heather.
My phone, and the idea that I always needed to be “working on the business” had become a god in my life. I’m disgusted with myself, but so happy that I’m continually growing and focusing on what is important in life.
My faith, and my family. If I’m going to be the best version of me, I need to be still, I need margin in my time. Things are looking different over here. Lots of time thinking about how I want to move forward in my business.
I’m leaning heavily into taking the education to a new level. I wrote the curriculum for a re-record of our course, I’ve organized and structured the entire 2024 curriculum for our mastermind group next year, and I have had a complete mindset shift as to the pace I need to be going in order to be successful.
To anyone out there reading this. If I’ve ever accidentally done something to upset or offend you, I apologize. I’m still working on me every day.
And I can tell you that I’m currently the best version of me I’ve ever been. Going to be leaving my phone on “do not disturb” for the foreseeable future. Going to prioritize life a bit differently. Stay tuned for better education, better wedding films, and a better version of the John Bunn you’ve known in the past.

Photo by at the retreat by

18/07/2023

🐠 Tried something new today (I Sucked)! Some much needed relaxation in Montana this week with family. I think this is my first “non-work” vacation in 5+ years. Working on taking more time for me, not feeling guilty about it, and enjoying myself. Enjoy this photo of me holding a fish someone else caught today, because I couldn’t catch one aaaallllll day 😅

11/06/2023

When .nickmiller and I started 5 years ago, I knew it could be something big. What I didn’t know, was the impact it would have on our industry. When I started my business in 2007, I had to figure everything out on my own. No online courses, no podcasts. Just showing up with a camera, making mistakes, learning, adapting, & getting better. As I look back on the 600+ weddings I’ve filmed, I realize just how lucky I am to be doing what I’m doing.
I get to see people on one of the best days of their lives. I get to peek into their world, and see their family dynamics, the real emotions, and I realize just how special that is.
When we started How To Film Weddings I thought it would be a fun YouTube channel that could make us some extra money on the side. But after we got going, I saw a path that I hadn’t seen anyone else do. I realized I needed to help others.
Nick and I got to work and realized that we could really help change the industry. We’ve put in so many hours, recorded 275 podcasts, hundreds of YouTube videos, and have now had hundreds of people join our courses and mastermind groups. It has changed so many lives…
But what I wasn’t anticipating was how it would change my life.
Last weekend I filmed an amazing wedding. But there was something significant about it. It is my last wedding until the fall. I might book 1 or 2 more before then, but this is the first year where I’ve been able to take the entire summer off to be with my family. That has always been the goal for me. I love filming weddings, and will continue to do it, but HTFW has allowed me to be so very selective, and only take a hand full each year. In 2018 I shot over 50 weddings. I was overworked, & my kids were spending the weekends without me. Fast forward to this summer, and I get to be fully present and oh my goodness does that feel good. HTFW is bigger & better than ever. I’m helping more people than I could have ever imagined, and am still able to be there for my family.
This isn’t a flex, but a reminder that nobody is going to put in the work for you. Don’t feel bad about wanting to be somewhere you aren’t currently at in life. One step at a time.

31/05/2023

Shout out to these two guys who just traveled with me to Mexico to film a wedding. I get to meet up with these two guys several times a year at ridiculously beautiful locations, and get to film weddings and teach others how to do it. I don’t take one day for granted of this life. I wish I could send a message to John Bunn from 2013 and tell him what he is up to 10 years later. I doubt he’d believe it.

17/05/2023

Where I have been lately… Since October, it has been nothing but hurdle after hurdle. I had 4 weddings to film in October, which were awesome. The week after my last wedding, I went straight to Oregon for . As soon as we got back from venture, we rented out and put on a real wedding over 2 days for our new section of our course. The entire team came here for a week, and we worked our butts off. Immediately following that, it was go time for me to get our sponsors lined up for 2023, as well as put the final touches on our mastermind retreat in Palm Springs. Throw in thanksgiving and Christmas, all the festivities for school programs and recitals, and the year quickly came to an end. The last few weeks of the year were spent signing new contracts for our sponsors, plus signing 26 guest speakers for our 2023 mastermind group. Plus a wedding in OKC. The second week of January was a week long retreat we put on for our 2022 mastermind group, IMMEDIATELY followed by the launch of our 2023 class. If you follow me, you know that the 2023 launch was brutal. It ended up great (best enrollment yet), but due to the economy / uncertainty it took me and the team SO MUCH extra work that week to get things locked in. It honestly broke me for a bit. February we launched our mastermind group, but as soon as the month was over, my 6 year old started experiencing neck and back pain, was running a 104 fever, and we took her to the Dr. They immediacy sent us to the ER, where we spent 5 days trying to figure out that she had pneumonia (we were told it could be a plethora of things way worse). That took a toll on Heather and me. We get out of that debacle, and found out there were some health issues with Heather’s dad that needed immediate attention. I won’t go into that here, but it took us weeks to help get him on his feet, and we are still doing what we can. All of that is going on, while we are launching a new course, teaching our mastermind group weekly, and most importantly, while I’m catching up on backlog with my clients for . I’m currently 7 months behind on edits, and it’s stressing me .. (continued in comments)

02/02/2023

Okay, I’m finally able to process this last week. I can’t remember the last time I’ve pushed so hard for something I believe in. We opened the doors for our mastermind group a week ago. I assumed we’d have the same turnout as we did in 2022. Wrong. Was it because the product wasn’t as good? Nope. Was it because I’m a fraud? I questioned myself.. but no. Life looks different on this planet in 2023 than it did in 2022. So I had to face the reality that if I wanted a successful launch, I was going to have to put in the work. I was going to go at it completely differently. Not sure if it’s just me, but doing something different is hard. It’s not comfortable. There’s pain involved. But here I am 10 days later, feeling like I just won the game at the buzzer in triple overtime. I feel like I scored at the last second, winning by just a fraction of a point. But on the other side of that victory, I have a renewed excitement. I have a renewed vision. I’m invigorated. We ended up having more people join our mastermind group than any previous year. Wow. If you would have told me after our first day, that we would have ended up with over 80 new mastermind members, I would have laughed in your face.
Tuesday of our launch week was ROUGH for me. I was making plans to sell my house, to close down our educational brand, and everything in between. I could see all of the haters posting their posts online, hiding behind their keyboards like they do saying “see, we told you they were a joke.” I saw it all. But then I remembered why I do what I do. I don’t do it for the haters that don’t know me. I don’t do it for Instagram fame. I do it because I love helping people. I love getting people off the sideline, and into their purpose. I can tell you this… I’m SO EXCITED to get going with this year’s Mastermind class. I’ve been able to talk to nearly all of the members already, and I know how DOPE of a class this is going to be.
If you were one of the people that sent me a message last week, encouraging me, thank you. It meant more than I could say.

Here’s to 2023 being uncomfortable, but somehow successful! ✌️

30/01/2023

This team works so hard behind the scenes to serve thousands of wedding filmmakers. This past week threw us a curve ball. But we adjusted and have come out on top. I love surrounding myself with people that make me better. Humbled to call these people my friends. Thankful for each and every one of them. Today is a massive day for us. Really excited to see how it turns out.

Todays podcast will be out here in a bit; but I encourage you to listen, even if you aren’t a wedding filmmaker. We go deep, and get a bit vulnerable.

Love you all ✌️

19/01/2023

90s vibez 🌴

17/01/2023

California has been tough so far… 🌴

29/10/2022

Dreaming of big things with .nickmiller 🔥

So many new things coming up for . Our course launches in a couple of weeks. Our mastermind group is thriving, and we open up the doors for a new class of students in January. Our podcast is hitting record numbers. Our YouTube channel passed 10k subscribers this week. The list continues to amaze me. And we are just getting started. We love helping people win. That’s what we are here for. Thank you to all of you that make our dreams a reality. Consistency over time equals success for us. We continue to be consistent no matter what. We aren’t always perfect, but we continue always.

18/10/2022

Just wrapped a beautiful wedding weekend in Baton Rouge LA. and thank you so much for having me out! Seriously the best time and I can’t wait to show off the footage!

18/08/2022

First studio shoot today with the FX3. Love setting up the lights and recording! people are you ready for some new content? ✅✅

06/08/2022

I can’t believe I’m starting my 16th year filming weddings. I still love every time I get to do it. I never get tired of the amazing families, stories, and moments I get to capture. That, plus getting to be creative and create something completely new every time.
Thank you to everyone who has made this possible for me!

19/06/2022

How I’m feeling about this weekend’s wedding in Lake Placid




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29/05/2022

Spent the week in Guatemala with my bud filming the most amazing wedding for and . Can not wait to share more! 🌋

13/05/2022