When I moved from the recording booth to cinematography, I brought that philosophy with me. It's why a Willow Tree film feels different from the first frame. Not because of the gear, or the editing, or the technical craft, but because of the sensibility behind the lens.

Music taught me that the most powerful moments aren't made. They're recognized. You just have to be paying attention when they happen.

My path to filmmaking wasn't a straight line. It ran through recording studios and remote landscapes, through Antarctica and California preserves, through years of learning that the most powerful moments in music, in nature, in life are never the ones you force. They're the ones you're present enough to catch. That's the foundation every Willow Tree film is built on.

there was the music.

Before the camera,

the beginning

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That patience travels with me to every wedding I film. The real moments, the ones couples will want to watch twenty years from now are never forced. They're already there. You just have to be still enough to see them.

The discipline of waiting. Of being present without agenda. Of learning to read what's about to happen before it does. Of trusting that if you're in the right place with the right attention, the moment will find you.

Wedding filmmaking took me places I never expected to go. Between seasons, Nicole and I have chased light across many continents. The Serengeti at dawn, the silence of Patagonia, underwater in the Galápagos, Sri Lanka, the streets of Paris, to the ruins of Peru. I've pointed my lens at things far beyond a ceremony, and each of those experiences sharpened something in me that no wedding could teach on its own.

A lesson in patience

Chasing light across continents.

the world

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I grew up in Pennsylvania, but I found my home in Boston. More specifically, in the life I built there with my wife Nicole. New England suited me. The light, the seasons, the way the landscape holds its history without making a fuss about it. I started to feel it in my work as well as with the connections with local vendors.

Nicole joined the studio as Sales and Operations Director, and it became something different. A true partnership, built on the same values we bring to everything else. She's the first voice most couples hear when they inquire. She's also the reason the experience of working with Willow Tree feels as considered as the films themselves.

As our children continued to grow, I made a decision that quietly shaped everything that followed. I was tired of missing things. First words. First steps. The ordinary moments that turn out to be the ones you remember. I understood, better than most, that those are exactly the moments you can't get back.

From there, the studio took shape. Not quickly, and not carelessly. I brought in a small group of filmmakers one at a time. People who already had the eye, the instinct, and the presence the work demands. What I gave them wasn't a rulebook. It was an approach. How to move through a wedding without disturbing it, how to earn the trust of a couple in the first hour of a day, how to find the story underneath the celebration.

Today that team covers the East Coast from Philadelphia to Maine. The standard is the same at every wedding, in every market, because the foundation was built the same way. Carefully, and without compromise.

The life that changed everything.

Boston. Nicole.

home

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Nicole and I share a deep love of travel. It's woven into how we live and how the studio thinks about its work. The world is full of extraordinary places to get married, and Willow Tree Films has been fortunate enough to film in many of them.

Destination weddings receive special consideration. If you're planning a wedding somewhere that requires a passport or simply somewhere far from the East Coast, reach out. I personally handle every destination inquiry, and there are certain places on my list that receive very particular attention.

Wherever you're getting married, the approach is the same: arrive early, understand the light, learn the landscape, and be ready for the moments that only that place, on that day, will produce.

Bring us somewhere beautiful.

Travel is a love language.

destinations

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