“Some things can only be seen by the results they cause”. 

So begins the spoken poem framing this unique and powerful wedding video by Gnarly Bay Productions. The line offers an abstract way of viewing the world — winter is the cold blanketing the earth, spring the running water of snowmelt, time is the general passage of seasons. Summer, the title of this video, is the culmination of a couple’s love as expressed through their wedding. 

Similarly, this film is not a wedding video, per se. It’s a form of a wedding video, expressed first through a deeper cinematic study of time, love, and nature. By focusing the video on themes and concepts — not plot — the producers at Gnarly Bay have subverted the tired norm of wedding videography and created something subtle and evocative. Something that leaves a sense of mystery about which shots will appear next. It’s not that the traditional elements of a wedding video are absent. In fact, they’re all there plain as day: the kiss, the vows, the dinner celebration. It’s simply that they’ve been cloaked in finer cloth. The wedding is not the subject — it is, rather, the “result” caused by “summer”, the subject. This film’s elegance originates from the fact that the wedding itself is not the center of the story.