Love Stories TV: An 'IdoTube' for Wedding Videos?

 

The videos on Love Stories TV website have drama, romance¹, and beautiful clothes mixed with costly² settings and highly technical camera shots.

Is it Hollywood or is it real life? Sometimes the line seems to disappear.

Love Stories TV shows videos of people getting married and taking part in different events leading up to the big moment: their wedding day.

Many modern-day wedding videos now compete for production values with Hollywood movies.

Rachel Silver is the founder³ and head of Love Stories TV, a website for watching and sharing wedding videos.

Silver says she got the idea for the site from talking to women she worked with. They told her how they had begun to watch wedding videos with their girlfriends one night and could not stop.

Silver remembers looking at some videos herself.

“I was thinking this is the best content I’ve ever seen . . . It’s real people, real stories, but professional production.”

Silver says Love Stories TV now has thousands of wedding films from around the world. Some come from newlyweds. Filmmakers also offer videos to the site.

The videos often include information about the videographers, food, flower providers, clothing makers⁴ and other services used. One can watch the videos just for fun. But they also can help people in planning for their own wedding day.

Wedding services information is searchable on the site by subject, including place, religion, and culture.

Karly Carrow got married last December. She said she had no problems sharing her video with Love Stories TV. She said it took 30 seconds to post the film.

Carrow said she wanted to make things easier for others planning a wedding. She said she thinks people struggle about budgeting for a wedding video.

“Hopefully,” she said “they’ll be inspired to spend the money and understand the importance and the value in the long run.”

So who exactly is watching the videos on Love Stories TV? Is there really an audience for the wedding videos of strangers?

Rachel Silver said users of the website are mostly young and female.

“Many of our viewers have grown up on reality TV, The Bachelor has been on television their entire lives . . . It’s about the love story. Inevitably⁵ in a wedding film, it comes out how you met, how you fell in love . . . they interview the friends and the family members...”

In the future, Silver plans to offer a targeted marketing⁶ service for wedding-related businesses. They will be able to pay monthly to reach viewers. Love Stories TV is also partnering with companies, like the menswear business Bonobos.

Critics may dismiss the married couples on Love Stories TV as self-congratulatory. But, Silver argues that posting videos is no different from publishing wedding announcements in The New York Times or Town & Country magazine.

Silver said she wishes she had documented her own wedding like those with videos on Love Stories TV.

“All of their family and friends and the people they love the most are surrounding them and that only happens to you a handful of times in your entire life.”

I’m Caty Weaver⁷.

Words in This Story

dramatic – adj. a situation or series of events that is exciting and that affects people's emotions?

romance – n. the feeling of being in love?

inspire – v. to make (someone) want to do something : to give (someone) an idea about what to do or create?

audience – n. the people who watch, read, or listen to something?

inevitable⁸ – adj. sure to happen?

interview – v. to question or talk with (someone) in order to get information or learn about that person

1 romance   

n.恋爱关系，浪漫气氛，爱情小说，传奇

参考例句：

• She wrote a romance about an artist's life in Tokyo.她写了一个关于一位艺术家在东京生活的浪漫故事。
• They tried to rekindle the flames of romance.他们试图重燃爱火。

2 costly   

adj.昂贵的，价值高的，豪华的

参考例句：

• It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
• This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用，左不过贵了些。

3 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

4 makers   

n.制造者，制造商（maker的复数形式）

参考例句：

• The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
• The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 inevitably   

adv.不可避免地；必然发生地

参考例句：

• In the way you go on,you are inevitably coming apart.照你们这样下去，毫无疑问是会散伙的。
• Technological changes will inevitably lead to unemployment.技术变革必然会导致失业。

6 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

7 weaver   

n.织布工；编织者

参考例句：

• She was a fast weaver and the cloth was very good.她织布织得很快，而且布的质量很好。
• The eager weaver did not notice my confusion.热心的纺织工人没有注意到我的狼狈相。

8 inevitable   

adj.不可避免的，必然发生的

参考例句：

• Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
• The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。