The person behind the camera
I’m Jeremiah, and I film elopements in Colorado.
One person, no crew, nothing that turns your day into a production.
Jeremiah Dubas
Hiring a videographer is a strange thing to do. You’re picking a stranger to stand next to you during the most personal hour of your life, and you’re doing it off a website.
So here’s what it’s actually like. I show up early, I stay quiet, and I film what happens. I’m not going to line you up for portraits every ten minutes or ask you to walk back down the aisle so I can get it from the other side.
If you want direction I’ll give you some, and if you’d rather I disappear, I’m good at that too.
Mostly I want you to forget I’m there, and then get a film later that shows you things you didn’t even notice were happening.
Why elopements
The parts I loved were always the small ones.
I started out filming full weddings. Two hundred guests, a DJ, a sparkler exit at the end of the night. Those days are a good time and I still film them.
But somewhere in there I noticed the moments I actually cared about were always the quiet ones. The look right before the doors open, the vows nobody else can hear, the twenty minutes afterward when it’s just the two of you and nobody needs anything from you yet.
At an elopement, that’s the entire day. No timeline dragging you toward a cake cutting, no group photo list, no aunt who needs to be found. Just you two, somewhere high up, doing the actual thing you came to do.
That’s the work I want to be doing, so that’s what I’ve built this around.
How I work
One person. That’s the whole crew.
No second shooter, no lighting kit, no assistant hauling cases up a trail behind us. I carry what fits on my back and I move at your pace. If we need to hike a few miles to be somewhere good for the light, we hike a few miles.
I don’t ask for re-takes. I’m not going to stop your first kiss and ask if we can run it again. What happened is what goes in the film.
And I only book one day at a time. If I’m filming your elopement, I’m not ducking out early for somebody else’s reception.
The short version
Pennsylvania, then Colorado, then this.
I grew up in Pennsylvania and moved out here in 2015. Colorado Springs has been home ever since.
I went to Pikes Peak State College for Radio and Television Production, and I’ve been filming weddings since late 2020.
Being local matters more than it sounds like it should. I know which trailheads need a permit, which ones are still a sheet of ice in May, and what the weather usually does to a 6am ceremony plan up here. That’s not something you can figure out from a search the week before.
The other half of the week
I’m in an edit bay every single day.
When I’m not filming, I edit for a YouTuber named Matthew Beem. I’ve been cutting his videos since October 2023.
It’s a slightly odd thing to put on a wedding website, I know. But it’s the reason your film comes back the way it does. I’m not editing a few weeks a year, I’m editing every day, and I’ve cut more footage than I could tell you.
Your film gets that same set of hands.
What couples say
He captured the love my husband and I share.
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He sits down with you and takes note of what you’re looking for.
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Heartfelt, thoughtful, personal.
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5.0 average on The Knot and WeddingWire / Filming in Colorado since 2020
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If that sounds like your kind of day, tell me about it.
I only take one booking per day, so dates go early. Send me yours and I’ll tell you straight away if it’s open.