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Morgan and an adorable film subject. Photo by Ned Jackson.

Real Wedding Films is also featured in our Offbeat Vendors guide!

Inspired by his distaste for cheesy wedding videos (you know the kind: video over public domain wedding music and, if you're lucky, some crappy audio of a toast) Morgan Kirkham started Real Wedding Films. Real Wedding Films is a highly-skilled, Full HD DSLR, cinematography team based in Maine shooting all over New England.

Real Wedding Films are comprised of fly-on-the-wall, documentary-style footage, combined with an incredibly delicate touch while editing. What you end up with is a wedding film that feels like it could be entered into film festivals.

In fact, take my Real Wedding Film challenge:

Do you remember that time I freaked out about the couple who made a Save the Date video parody of an iPad commercial? Since that time our darling offbeat brides have produced so many more freak out-worthy Save the Date videos. We're talking Family Matters parodies, animated Legos, and Steampunk and stop-motion videos galore.

Hold the freaking phone — here's an awesome way to ad a little spice to your wedding shoes by DIYing your own LED shoe clips. WTFOMGYESWATCHTHIS…

Automatronic fortune tellers, multi-headed chickens, and Darrell the Doggigator abound! As if that wasn't enough, just wait until you see the bride's rainbow dress and wedding cake! Doggigator approves.

Tribe member Adriana Boza finally succumbed to the will of her fellow OBBs and created a tutorial for how to make her origami favor boxes.

Nicole and her fiance made a remix of the "iPad is…" commercials to create video Save the Date. They're adorable and filled with lots of nerd references too!

To end our elopement week we give you Bridget & Jonathan. Instead of having a huge wedding and inviting all their friends and family, Bridget & Jonathan decided to elope privately and turn it into a film. Afterwards they sent DVD's to their friends and family so that they could share their wedding day with them. How cool?! -Coco