Make your wedding video something worth watching again and again, on par with your favorite comedies, only starring your favorite people. Step 1: As preparations and celebrations occur, we get lots of interviews from your guests, asking them to explain events that have just occurred, give us their take on them and impart you with well wishes. Step 2: Their voices narrate the action you see on scre
en and their honest reactions are edited with great comedic timing. Step 3: You get an extremely entertaining video to watch later! Narration and honest reactions serve to transition between big events, natural comedy follows, and you're not stuck fast forwarding... or worse... putting the video away, never to be seen again. I'm Wedding Your Pants co-founder Dan Milano. For the last 9 years, comedy has been my life. Along with my co-founding partner and wife Amanda Jean Milano, we have been making funny videos that have been featured on CNN, College Humor, The Daily What, Mashable, Techcrunch, Buzzfeed, Funny or Die and many more. Here is our story...
In 2009, I filmed my cousin's wedding. The idea bored me to death, but I did it for family. 5 hours of dancing and emotional speeches? Beautiful and all, but who watches that more than once? Why not just watch the Lifetime channel? Instead of treading this well-worn ground, I turned the concept around into something completely unprecedented. Pulling family members and friends aside as major events occurred at the wedding and asking them to explain what just occurred and give commentary, I stumbled onto a mockumentary style of filmmaking akin to the likes of "The Office", "Parks & Rec" and "This is Spinal Tap". The video was an instant hit, with a unique mix of directorial creativity and comedic timing in editing gained from my work as a YouTube comedy partner, studying at The Improv Space in Westwood California, classes at the Upright Citizens Brigade in NY and LA and working at JibJab.com. I was inundated with further requests to film even more weddings... but wedding shooting and editing is an intense and time consuming process, and as a full time employee at JibJab in Venice California, I passed on the offers. A year later, we were searching for a videographer for our own wedding. In our search, we found an endless supply of wedding videos that were unintentionally hilarious. The editing was bad, the shots were awkward. The effect was cheesy, and not in a good way. Pained I couldn't film our own wedding, I posed to Amanda that with just the equipment we already had, we could instantly provide a sharper, more entertaining video than 80% of existing wedding videographers. Mostly doing so because she finds the word "vehemently" hilarious. We had no idea that the market was so wide open for the style we had created. It just so happened to be at a transitional time in our lives, we were moving to New York from Los Angeles and losing our jobs. The time to start a small business was now. Enter Wedding Your Pants.
