We had the honor to do content creation at Essence Event Center for Sara & Avery’s wedding! With us doing the wedding content creation, all the photos you see here are screenshots of all the videos we took! You can see a full recap of their wedding day on our Instagram – linked here. Unsure what content creation is? Learn all about it here!
The Venue
The Essence Event Center in St Paul, Minnesota is by far one of our FAVORITE venues ever! We have done a few weddings here before and each experience has been so wonderful. The staff is communicative, kind and overall will do whatever they need to ensure you have the best day ever! The venue itself is stunning – it has two of the largest getting ready suites I have EVER seen. There are two separate spaces for ceremony and the reception which makes the transition from ceremony to reception seamless. There is an outside courtyard area (which you can see in some of these photos) which you can hold your ceremony in or just take photos!
Our Services
Sara & Avery wanted someone to capture more candid moments of their wedding day, as they decided not to go with a videographer due to it not being in their budget. It was still important to both of them to have some type of video for their wedding, and had planned to have their bridesmaids take videos throughout the day so they had something to look back on! Ultimately they decided it would be nice for their wedding party to be in the moment with them and have a professional to capture all the moments. And this is where we came into play! We were present on their wedding day, capturing all the candid and in between moments. We then uploaded all those videos into a dropbox folder and shared the link with them the NEXT morning after their wedding! We also did a highlight video, instagram stories recap, and more! Click here to learn more about our wedding content creation package!
Content Creation at Essence Event Center Vendors:
Photographer: Sarah Ascanio Photography
Content Creation: Hanna Marie Events
Wedding Coordinator & Florist: Revel & Flourish
Dessert: Nothing Bundt Cakes
Caterer: Butcher Salt
Hair & Makeup: Lady Vamp Artistry
“There aren’t enough words to describe how amazing Hanna is! My husband and I recently had our wedding and it was not in our budget to hire a videographer. That being said, I had a friend in the industry who tagged me in a giveaway Hanna was doing for content creation! I thought, hey, why not enter! Seemed like the perfect option for us to have some sort of video of our day and in a more candid way. Hanna was so kind to select us as one of the winners of her giveaway and we are so incredibly blessed she chose us!
On the day of our wedding, Hanna’s energy was so special to see. You can tell that she cares about her couples and is truly passionate about the work she does! Literally the day after the wedding, we were sent a dropbox link full of hundreds of videos and photos from throughout our day. She even last minute decided to record our ceremony!! I was speechless! I had no idea she was going to do this until I saw the video sitting in our dropbox link. My brother was unable to make it to the wedding, so having this video for him to see, just means more than I can describe. Hanna put together a little recap video(s) of the day and everything she shared on her Instagram, she also included in that dropbox link so that we could save them and share with our friends and family. The day truly flew by and having these videos to look back on means so much. Hanna did an incredible job. THANK YOU HANNA!”
-Sara + Avery
