Remember Layer Cake Films, the awesome Super 8 wedding video company from Los Angeles?

Well, good news for my East Coast brides! Michelle, the adorable cup-cake loving founder of Layer Cake, is moving back East in March. When I asked Michelle why she was moving, she simply said, “I can’t take LA anymore.” As someone who lasted only a year living in LA, I hear ya, girl.

Anyway, Michelle’s relocation means that — while she can travel where-ever you need her — she’s extra available to shoot weddings in:

• New York City
• Washington DC
• Philadelphia
• Baltimore
• Asheville & Charlotte, North Carolina

There’s still a team of amazing Layer Cake shooters staying in LA, so us Left Coasters can still get in on the action … but if you’re on the East Coast (especially New York!) you’ve got easy, local access to one bad-ass videographer.

Ooh, and remember that Layer Cake Films does a 5% discount for Offbeat Brides. Just mention you saw the ad here, and reap the sweet rewards.

There’s documentation, and then there’s art — and Layer Cake Super 8 wedding films clearly takes wedding videography to that second level.

Yes, Layer Cake is an offbeat advertiser. But this is one of those advertisers where I get all clappy and squealy because I’m so freaking excited about Layer Cake’s custom wedding films. See, rather than just doing the standard wedding videography thang, Layer Cake’s Michelle (who has seven years of film editing experience working on TV, docs, music videos, etc in Hollywood) uses one of those awesome old Super 8 cameras to make her wedding films — and the results are the most fabulous shade of awesome with their retro, vintage film feel.

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