Hiring On The Fly Films ensures your Montana Wedding Day feels like a memory—honest, emotional, and yours.
There’s a moment on almost every consult call where people ask me what my favorite part of filming weddings is. And my answer is always the same: it’s you.
Not just your wedding day. Not the timeline or the details or the venue. It’s getting to know you—your story, where you’re from, how your lives led you to each other.
I think I love this part so much because I’ve always been that person strangers open up to. The one people randomly tell their life story to. It’s like I have an invisible sign on my forehead that says, “I want to hear it.”
And the truth is—I really do.
I care about the in-between parts. The things that don’t make it onto a Pinterest board. The way you met. The hard seasons you’ve walked through. The people who shaped you. The little things that matter more than anything.
Because the more stories I hear, the more I realize something important:
Even though our lives can look completely different on the surface, underneath it all… we’re so similar.
We all just want to be seen.
To be loved.
To feel beautiful.
And a wedding day is one of the rare times in life where all of that exists in one place, all at once.
That’s why hiring a wedding filmmaker—at least the way I see it—isn’t just about showing up with a camera and documenting what happens.
It’s about paying attention.
It’s about listening closely enough to understand what actually matters to you.
It’s about noticing the quiet moments as much as the big ones.
It’s about telling your story in a way that feels like you, not like anyone else.
And honestly… some of my favorite parts happen long after the wedding day is over.
I’ve had couples who started with engagement photos, then I photographed and filmed their wedding, and a year later they reached out asking me to keep a tiny secret and create their baby announcement film. I’ve known some of your biggest, most exciting life moments before friends and family do.
That kind of trust? I don’t even know how to fully put it into words.
I’ll get random texts like, “Hey we’re in town, want to hang out?”
And my answer is always—hell yes. Let’s grab a drink. Come back and we’ll float the river, go fish, whatever sounds fun.
Is that part of my “job”? Not even a little.
But I genuinely care about you.
I love watching your lives grow from near and far.
I love the messages that come out of nowhere—
“We just watched our wedding film again and can’t believe it’s ours.”
“I show everyone I know and they all cry.”
Creating something that holds your memories is incredibly rewarding…
but the connection that comes with it? That’s the part that sticks with me.
And somehow, it doesn’t stop there.
I start seeing your friends, your siblings, your people reaching out—and that kind of ripple effect is something I’ll never take for granted.
Because at the end of the day, you’re not just hiring someone to film your wedding.
You’re trusting someone—someone who started out as a stranger—to step into one of the most intimate, emotional, meaningful days of your life.
And what’s always amazed me… is how we never really feel like strangers for long.
About Me
Hi, I am Erin, the lead photographer and videographer here. Also the editor, social media manager, secretary, etc. etc. I am a woman of many hats, as the sole owner and operator here. Savanna also helps me on wedding days as the second videographer, we have been friends since 2011 working at Cold Stone Creamery as little teeny boppers, to being bridesmaids in each others weddings, our husbands are best friends and also each officiated each others weddings. We’re just a couple of moms who love filming wedding days together.
It started with my own wedding.
A friend filmed it on an iPhone—unposed, imperfect, honest. Nothing polished. Nothing planned. Just fragments of a day I thought I would remember clearly forever.
Later, I edited the footage myself.
And something shifted.
I didn’t expect to fall in love with the process—but I did. Not just the visuals, but the shaping of it all. The rhythm of memory. The way small, forgotten moments could be stitched together and suddenly feel like something alive again.
At the time, it felt like creativity.
Now I understand it was connection.
I started filming weddings shortly after that—quietly at first. What began as something on the side of a very different life slowly became the center of it. I was a PE teacher then. Structured days, familiar rhythms, a life that made sense on paper. But I kept finding myself pulled back to this work in between everything else.
Because somewhere along the way, it stopped being about learning how to film weddings well.
It became about learning how to see people.
Really see them.
Their histories. Their families. The way two lives weave together into something that feels both ordinary and extraordinary at the same time.
And the more I stepped into those days, the more I realized I wasn’t just documenting events—I was being trusted with memory.
With presence. With time.
There’s a quiet weight to that I didn’t fully understand at first.
But I do now.
I’ve experienced what it feels like when there isn’t enough left. When the images are few, the moments scattered, and the voices of people you love exist more in memory than in anything you can return to. It changed the way I see this work. Not loudly—but permanently. Because of that, I move differently now.
I pay attention differently.
I care differently.
If I could go back, I know I would film my own wedding differently too. I would linger longer in the in-between moments. I would hold onto faces and voices a little more deliberately. I would preserve more of what I didn’t yet know I would one day miss.
That understanding lives in everything I create.
And yet, what has surprised me most is not the work itself—but the people.
Somewhere between the timeline and the ceremony and the quiet moments in between, strangers stop feeling like strangers. Couples become familiar. Stories become shared. And long after the wedding day, messages arrive—sometimes months, sometimes years later—saying they watched their film again and felt everything return for a moment. That never stops meaning something.
Neither do the friendships that follow. The invitations to come back and visit. The river days, the dinners, the updates on new chapters of life. The families I once met on a wedding day now extending into something wider than I ever set out to build. And more and more, I find myself trusted not only with weddings—but with what comes after them. Quiet surprises. New beginnings. The next chapters no one else knows about yet.
It’s a responsibility I don’t take lightly.
Because at its core, this has never been about creating something beautiful to watch.
It has always been about something deeper.
Connection. Memory. Presence.
And the quiet, human need to hold onto the people we love while we still can.
That is what I am really here to preserve.
Do we feel like the perfect fit for your special day?
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