Photos are what it looked like
A photographer gives you what your wedding looked like. That is most of what people remember to budget for, and it is the right first priority.
What a photograph cannot hold is sound. Your grandfather's voice in a toast. The exact way your partner's voice went during the vows. The noise a room makes when a hundred people lose it at the same time. Those go first from memory, faster than you expect, and there is no way to get them back later.
That is the honest case for video, and we are making it as DJs who have no financial stake in whether you book one.
The affordable way in is ceremony-only. Austin offers a collection that covers the ceremony start to finish and nothing else. It is his lowest tier by a wide margin, and it covers the fifteen minutes you are least likely to remember clearly and most likely to want back. If full-day video is out of reach, this is not a consolation prize - it is the part that matters most.
Austin working. Gimbal, shotgun mic, light panel - most of the job.
Why him
Thirteen years, weddings only. He is not a photographer who also shoots video, he is a videographer, and he has won a Couples' Choice award every year from 2015 through 2025.
The practical reason we like working with him: your wedding film's audio mostly comes off our board. Vows, toasts, the officiant - that sound runs through the DJ system, and the clean way to capture it is a feed straight from us rather than a microphone pointed at a speaker from across the room. Austin knows to ask. Not everyone does, and you can hear the difference.
The basics
- Who
- Austin Olsen
- Company
- Coastal Creations Video
- Based
- St. Augustine, FL
- Covers
- Northeast Florida, and travels
- Doing this
- 13+ years, weddings only
- Awards
- Couples' Choice winner 2015 through 2025
- Start here
- Ceremony-only collection
One thing to be straight about
We sell photo and video packages ourselves, bundled with the DJ, and for a lot of our couples that bundle is the better value. We are not going to hide that on a page recommending somebody else.
The distinction is simple. If video is a nice-to-have and price is the deciding factor, take our bundle. If the film is the thing you care most about and you want a specialist who does nothing else, book Austin. Both are honest answers and they are answers to different questions.
His work is here, with his pricing published openly, which we appreciate.