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Liv and Tenny

Sandy, UT

The trip

Tallahassee to Sandy Utah!

1,694 miles away from home!

Garrett and Jameson on the day.

Liv & Tenny.

Tenny says he has always been goofy and has always kept that side of himself away from people. With Liv it was different: just be you, dude. The more time he spent with her, the more he felt like himself, and he says he fell in love with loving who he was when he was with her. Her family met him the same way. He was caught off guard by how warm they were: come as you are, they told him, and we'll always have your back. The kids took to her family on the first day too, and Liv says they could not have asked for a better, easier blending.

Liv says Tenny reads her mind. She is always forgetting something, and when she says so, he already has it: I got it for you, I'm here for you. They balance each other the same way. When one of them is stressed, the other can say chill out, and it works both ways. Tenny calls it yin and yang, and says they have been clicking like that since day one.

At the dinner before the ceremony, her dad said everyone there was family, by blood or in the other really binding way. Her mom told about the time Liv, at four, asked her little sister in the back of the car whether she didn't want to grow up and be a mom and rule over her children. Then she told Tenny he had won big bonus points for bringing kids into the family. In their interview the day after, they were asked what they would tell themselves in ten or twenty years. Liv said to be proud of how far they have come together. Tenny said to keep growing and keep loving deeper.

Behind the Lens

Landing in Salt Lake.

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Jameson Smith

Cinematographer

We had filmed a wedding in California two days before. Garrett and I got on a plane, landed in Salt Lake, and drove to the Airbnb in Sandy jet lagged, with Garrett coming down with something. We got settled and asked where the rehearsal dinner was. I put it in my phone. It was down the street.

On the Board

We walked to the rehearsal dinner.

A rough contact board of out-takes — tap any frame to open it full-screen and page through them all.

So we walked. Liv, Tenny, and her whole family were the sweetest people. They got us Chick-fil-A, made us feel at home, and treated two tired strangers like they had always been there. We had heard how her family took Tenny in. After that night it made sense.

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Jameson Smith

Cinematographer

Behind the Lens

Two of us and a camera.

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Jameson Smith

Cinematographer

This was not a big production. It was Faulk and me with a camera, the way we started out. That kept it candid. I think that is why the film feels the way it does.

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Liv's Wedding Film

Liv and Tenny Palepoi on their wedding day.

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Liv & Tenny Palepoi

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The Intro!!

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Chapter 01 · The Intro!!

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Behind the Lens · Liv's Dads Speech

Liv's dad, before the ceremony.

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Liv's Dads Speech

Liv & Tenny Palepoi

Liv's Dads Speech

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HERE COMES THE BRIDE!

The vows.

I have never seen Matt Davis cry at a wedding film. Matt cried at these vows. I cried, Smith cried, everybody who has watched them cried. They were so genuine, and you can tell how much they love each other and what they got through to stand there.

Behind the Lens

Auburn was playing Oklahoma.

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Garrett Faulkner

Editor

On the morning of the wedding we were in the family room waiting for Liv to send us somewhere, watching the Auburn game. Smith was barely awake. Her dad walked in and told him he could take a nap if he wanted. Smith got up, lay down on the couch, put his hat over his face, and was out!

Behind the scenes

Behind the Lens

A note from Garrett.

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Garrett Faulkner

Editor

The photography team was from Ohio and they were great to be around. Everyone at this wedding was. This is up there with my favorite films I have edited, and it is a memory I will keep for the rest of my life.

The people who helped.

Liv & Tenny Palepoi

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Jameson Smith Cinematographer

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