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Kristina & Devin Thorpe wedding

Reel 047

DevinandKristina

05.08.2026

Emerald Isle, NC

The trip

Tallahassee to Emerald Isle.

From our home in Tallahassee to Kristina and Devin’s wedding in Emerald Isle, North Carolina.

Garrett, Matt, Anna and Jameson on the day.

Midsummer QuarterlyNo. 047The Field Essay

The drive to North Carolina.

Kristina & Devin Thorpe — Emerald Isle

e rented a van for North Carolina, and Jameson, Anna Lee, Matt and I ended up leaving later than we should have. We went through Enterprise to pick up Matt and made another stop in Auburn. By midnight I was looking at Jameson, asking when we were actually going to get to the Airbnb. The answer was six in the morning. I normally look forward to a long drive; my parents used to live in West Virginia, so those trips were nothing new. This one was testing that reputation.

By about two-thirty or three, everyone else had been asleep and I was fighting to stay awake.
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By about two-thirty or three, everyone else had been asleep and I was fighting to stay awake. We pulled into a gas station and I told Jameson he was going to have to take the rest of the drive. I went straight to sleep in the back of the van. We finally got there at six, took a very long nap and then headed out to meet Kristina, Devin and their family at the rehearsal dinner. North Carolina was gorgeous, even after that drive.

After rehearsal we asked if we could come back to the house and film some interviews. We got to hang out with them a little more while we recorded, which was a great way to start getting to know everyone before the wedding. Their venue was this enormous house right on the coast. Once we saw it, we started figuring out all the different places we could film from. We had the wedding ahead of us, a full crew together and a location that was going to be a lot of fun to work in.

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Behind the Lens

Getting ready on both sides.

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Garrett Faulkner

Creative Director

We split into two teams for this wedding, with one staying with Kristina and the other with Devin and the groomsmen for most of the day. That let us spend time with both sides while they were getting ready. There were beautiful portraits in the morning, but also plenty of room for everyone to just hang out. We could follow what was happening in each room without asking one side to wait for the other.

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Behind the scenes

Behind the Lens

We handed them the VHS camera.

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Garrett Faulkner

Creative Director

This was the first wedding where we brought the VHS camera. I handed it to the maid of honor and basically told her to have fun. While our two teams followed Kristina and Devin, she documented the day from their friends' point of view. That gave them another version of the wedding, made by someone who was already right in the middle of it.

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Threading the reel

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Kristina & Devin Thorpe

Kristina & Devin Thorpe

Kristina & Devin — Midsummer behind the scenes.

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Kristina & Devin — Midsummer behind the scenes.

Behind the scenes with the Midsummer crew in North Carolina. Wedding film and Super 8 coming soon.

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Filmed & Directed by Midsummer

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Behind the Lens

On the dance floor.

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Garrett Faulkner

Creative Director

We got to hang out, eat and get on the dance floor with everyone at the reception. At one point Jameson got onto one of the groomsmen's shoulders and they carried him around the venue. It is one of those moments I want to show in their video because it was so much fun to be there for. Between the dancing and the photographs we were making, we were right in the middle of the party.

Behind the Lens

The Polaroids.

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Jameson Smith

Film Photographer

We took Polaroids for Kristina and Devin alongside their film and digital photographs. I wanted to show those here as well, so these are the digital photographs we made of the actual prints. You can see the people, the dancing and the VHS camera in them. They are another part of how we photographed the day, and a fun way to look back at the reception.

Behind the scenes
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Into the pool.

We ended the night with Kristina and Devin jumping into the pool. After the reception and all the dancing, that was a pretty fantastic way to finish the wedding. We loaded the equipment back into the van afterward, and I drove us all the way home the next day. It was a long trip, but this wedding was a ton of fun.

The Film

The wedding film is on its way.

For now, a selection of photographs from Devin and Kristina’s wedding. We’ll add their film when it’s finished.

Kristina & Devin Thorpe, photographed by Midsummer Productions

Kristina & Devin Thorpe

In the edit

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What they booked

The reel & the prints

Film package

The Wedding Crashers

Photo package

The Film Strip

Midsummer Productions presents

Kristina & Devin Thorpe

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Groom

Devin

KT

Bride

Kristina

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Editor · Creative Director · Film Photographer · Second Videographer · Second Shooter · Super 8 Technician

Garrett Faulkner

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Second Videographer

Matt Davis

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Lead Photographer

Anna Lee Vaught

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Cinematographer · Second Shooter · Film Photographer

Jameson Smith

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