Elevated Elopement Vendor Introduction | Seattle Elopement Planner | Micro Wedding Seattle

Wedding vendors… we are a special breed. It takes a pretty special person to be able to handle the emotional roller coaster that is a wedding while being fun and upbeat. Don’t be surprised to catch all of us on wedding day in your photo booth together or dancing like goofballs in the corner, all while being completely sober!

Best Made Videos

As vendors, we get to spend a lot of time together on wedding days, through out planning and have become friends in the process. Over the next couple of weeks we will introduce you to each of our Elevated Elopement vendor partners and ask them a few questions to give you opportunity to get to know them a little better beyond what is on their website and help show why we think they are pretty awesome people.

Let’s get to know Reid Johnson of Best Made Videos !

1) What got you started in Videography?

My entire backstory can be found here - https://youtu.be/2q-HHTXlIE4 in the premiere episode of our wedding vendor focused podcast, Get to Know Your Wedding Pro®. 

I started as a journalism major in college at Gonzaga University before switching focus to broadcast and television. I was hired two weeks before I graduated for a job in Bakersfield, Ca at the local NBC affiliate and moved down there two days after graduation. After spending two years in Bakersfield, I made the jump back to Seattle where I spent another 5 years at the local NBC and Fox stations before deciding to launch my own company, Best Made Videos®. I spent 9 months building up a client case before I was able to quit my full time job to focus solely on Best Made Videos®. 

2) Favorite thing you have made/done for a client?

One of our first wedding videos we ever shot was for a couple who got married at (the then named) Safeco Field. It was a two day Indian/Western mix that involved the groom riding in on a horse down 1st Ave, it was the whole shebang. I put the entire video together to “Put me in Coach” and “Take me out to the Ballgame” to maintain the baseball theme! Check it out here! - https://vimeo.com/122495854

3) In all your years in business, what is your favorite memory from a past event?

One of the all-time favorite moments I have from filming a wedding, happened during one of the first weddings that I filmed following my own wedding the previous summer. My high school friend Dominick was getting married to his bride Brooke at the Great Hall at Green Lake. Following the ceremony we went to the back to sign the marriage license. Dominick had a panic in his eyes and looked me and and said “Dude, I have no idea what happened up there, I literally blacked out...” I smiled and said, “that’s why you hired a videographer!”

4) We all have crazy creative ideas in our heads. What are some things you'd love to do at a wedding if you were given full creative control?

So much of what we do during a wedding day, is tied to timelines and making sure that things are done at the exact time. That is one of the reasons why being a part of the Elevated Elopements package from New Creations was so appealing to us. The idea of being able to have as much creative freedom as possible with couples who really want to make the most of their wedding day is something that gets us really excited!!

5) What was your dream job as a kid?

When I was a kid I always wanted to be a magician. This is a dream that led me to sit front row at a Criss Angel performance at the Luxor two years ago (he spit water on my shoe!) as well as also seeing the incredibly lackluster David Copperfield Vegas show that same year. I’ve actually had the opportunity to shoot videos for a variety of magicians in the local Seattle area, so that is certainly something that continues to scratch my itch, even if I don’t get to perform the magic myself. 

6) Any hidden talents you or your team has (other than being a wedding super star!)?

Many of the wonderful assistant videographers who work for me, have a history of performing on stage. Although this doesn’t necessarily help in the world of wedding videography, they do know their way around formal wear, and specifically how to tie a bowtie on a semi-panic groom before he sees his bride for the first time. I think they have gotten a shout out at least two or three times this past year alone, during the thank you speeches from the wedding couples at the wedding reception.

7) Wildcard option... tell us anything else you would like someone to know!

We are going to be launching a new wedding podcast soon, and I can’t wait to share all of the details with all of our brides, grooms and other wedding vendors. We are so appreciative of this opportunity, and cannot wait to celebrate with many more happy wedding couples in the years to come!

Ready to start planning your Elevated Elopement? Contact New Creations Wedding Design and Coordination today!

~ Mandy Brown