i tell love stories
Hi, I’m Jon Warlick and I love to preserve people’s happy memories! I understand it can be difficult to find a cinema team that can tell your story in a way that fits your style. It’s really hard to put into words! But, you know it when you see it.
This is where I can help. If you’ve seen some of the films I’ve been fortunate enough to create, and something just hit the right vibe, I just might be your filmmaker! I can use my technical skills, as well as that difficult-to-identify artistic “something”, to capture and present your celebration as a forever keepsake. I like to find the perfect balance between fun/funny and emotional/romantic. That’s what a great wedding day is to me!
Here’s a few details about me. I’m from Clayton, North Carolina, and I have lived in Raleigh for over 10 years. I picked up a DSLR in my 20s determined to take cool long exposure photos of the stars. I crept under fences in cow pastures in the middle of the night and took the wildest long exposures, sometimes as long as 45 minutes, until the star trails formed huge swirls in the sky! I’m still able to use this skill to take stunning time lapses of wedding venues under the night sky.
A few years later, a friend asked me to second shoot weddings with her, and getting paid for photography was a huge temptation! After dabbling in the wedding photo scene, an acquaintance asked me if I could do a wedding video. Well, my camera had a video mode, so I took the gig and watched the top-viewed wedding videos on YouTube all up until the big day. The response was loud and clear. I had found my niche!
Within a year, I was booking so many wedding video projects that I had to quit my job and go all in, full time. I’ve never looked back and have been grateful to film weddings exclusively for the past 8 years!
this is the start of your happily ever after!
I am always evolving, always innovating, and always down to have a great time with couples, making the process of creating films a breeze. I’ll keep you laughing, running and spinning and you’ll be amazed as you watch what I create for your enjoyment over your lifetime together!
I will give you pixel perfect memories!
BEST VIDEOGRAPHER EVER!!! Exactly what I dreamed of. Jon and Zara are so sweet and so great to work with. I can't thank them enough for capturing our special day. We are able to relive our wedding day over and over because of them. Every time we watch our video we get those giddy feelings all over again just as if it were our wedding day. When our family and friends have watched our video, they can't believe Jon and Zara were able to put together such an AMAZING video (and most of the time everyone ends up crying). We can't wait to share these amazing memories with our children and grandchildren one day.
-Kailey H.
From day one of booking Jon and Zara they were super involved in the planning process of my wedding video and responsive to my questions and ideas for it, which was about a year and a half our from my wedding day! They tailored my video to exactly what I wanted, (I'm super picky), and were so happy to create a video that fit what I was looking for. They definitely put their brides first and I felt like a true priority from the moment I booked them. I think that is one example of what sets them apart from other videographers I had spoken with before finding Jon and Zara. Their videos are romantic, light, gentle, but also cinematic which was another reason why I wanted to work with them on top of my wedding planner, photographers and other vendors recommending them to me. They are SUPER friendly, fun, detailed oriented, attentive, creative, genuine and obviously extremely good at what they do. I cry tears of happiness every time I watch my wedding video. I will always feel indebted to them for capturing the beauty and special moments of my wedding day. Being able to relive that day is such an invaluable gift. Their turnaround time is also a huge plus! I got my teaser film the day after the wedding and the short film just a few days later! I'll be recommending Jon and Zara to my friends and family members who are getting married in the near future!
-Morgan