Est. 2026 · A handheld wedding film company

The best moments
are caught by the
people who love you best.

We send your wedding a camcorder. You hand it to your friends. They press REC and pass it on. We string the day back together, exactly the way it happened — nothing staged, nothing scored, nothing slowed to make you cry.

Reserve a tape → Read the manifesto
TAPE 01 — A & J
August '27
● REC
"is this thing on?"
AUG · 14 · 2027
00:23:47:12
01 The Idea

There's a kind of wedding video that looks like a watch commercial. Slow-motion glances. A drone. A Bon Iver track that wasn't actually playing. It's beautiful. We make those too, in another life.

But the version your kids will fight over isn't the one that won an award. It's the one your maid of honor shot with shaking hands, narrating the whole time.

Pass The Tape is for couples who'd rather watch their actual day than a film about it. Your dad squeezing your mom's hand during the vows. Your nephew filming his shoes for ninety seconds. Your bridesmaid panning frantically through the dance floor, laughing, missing every shot.

That footage doesn't need a story. It is the story. We just hand it back to you in order.

02 How It Works

Four steps, one weekend, a whole day kept.

STEP 01

Reserve a tape.

Pick your package. Lock in your date. We hold a camcorder with your name on it.

STEP 02

We ship the kit.

A ready-to-roll camcorder, two batteries, an SD card, idiot-proof instructions, and a return label. Arrives three days early.

STEP 03

Press REC. Pass it on.

Hand it to your maid of honor. Then to your dad. Then to the flower girl. Let chaos make the cuts. We promise it works.

STEP 04

We send it home.

Drop the box at any FedEx. Two weeks later you get every clip — organized, trimmed for sanity, never restyled.

What you get back, actually.

Most "wedding films" are 4-minute trailers for a day that took 14 hours. Ours aren't films. They're the whole tape — every laugh, every long pause, every accidental ceiling shot — handed back to you in chronological order. The way it happened.

  • i.
    All your raw footage
    Every clip, every angle, every "is this thing on?" Yours forever, downloadable, no compression nonsense.
  • ii.
    A chronological string-out
    We trim the genuinely useless bits (60 seconds of pocket footage, the camera being passed off). What's left is the whole day, in order, exactly as your people caught it.
  • iii.
    A short stitched recap
    A loose 3–5 minute opener pulled from the best moments. No score, no slow-mo, no narrative invented from outside. Just a sampler.

// Sample delivery

A & J — Aug 14, 2027
42 CLIPS · 02:47:33 TOTAL · ORGANIZED CHRONOLOGICALLY
  • 14:22:08"Getting ready, somebody find Aunt Linda"04:12
  • 15:04:21First look, no audio for first 20s02:48
  • 16:11:55Processional, shaky, mom crying06:33
  • 16:18:02Vows, full ceremony, no cuts11:24
  • 17:42:18Cocktail hour, ~6 different cameramen22:09
  • 19:08:44Toasts, all four, unedited18:51
  • 20:31:09First dance + family pile-on07:22
  • 22:47:31Last call, sparkler exit, dad bombs frame03:18
+ 34 MORE CLIPS · DELIVERED VIA PRIVATE LINK
03 The Tapes

Pick your package.

No hidden fees. No upsells at the end. Pricing reflects the actual thing: a camcorder, a couple weeks of light editing, and your whole day back in your hands.

TAPE A · ONE CAMERA

The Single

$349
PER WEEKEND
  • 1 camcorder, 4-day rental
  • Two batteries + 128GB card
  • Free shipping both ways
  • All raw footage
  • Chronological string-out
  • 3-min stitched recap
Reserve The Single
MOST RESERVED
TAPE B · TWO CAMERAS

The Double

$549
PER WEEKEND
  • 2 camcorders, 4-day rental
  • Four batteries + 2 × 128GB cards
  • Wireless lav mic for ceremony audio
  • Free shipping both ways
  • All raw footage from both cams
  • Chronological string-out
  • 5-min stitched recap
Reserve The Double
TAPE C · THE WEEKEND

The Whole Weekend

$849
EXTENDED RENTAL
  • 2 camcorders, 7-day rental
  • Rehearsal dinner included
  • Sunday brunch included
  • Lav mic add-on for ceremony
  • All raw footage
  • Chronological string-out
  • 7-min stitched recap
Reserve The Weekend
Want a "real" highlight reel anyway? We get it. A few couples ask. We'll cut a 90-second scored edit from your footage as a one-time add-on — but honestly, the string-out is the thing.
+ $295

What our couples actually said about their tapes.

We've watched the full string-out four times. Our parents have watched it five. Nobody has asked for a "highlight reel." It's the whole thing — and the whole thing is the point.
Mara & Devon Hudson Valley, NY · 2026
My uncle filmed his own toast from the floor. You can see him aim the camera at the ceiling and just... narrate. It is the funniest thing I own. No professional would have kept it.
Bea & Tommy Asheville, NC · 2026
I almost booked a "real" videographer. I'm so glad I didn't. The shaky-handed, accidentally-vertical, badly-framed footage from our friends is the version we'll show our kids.
Sam & Jules Door County, WI · 2026

Things people actually ask.

What comes in the box?

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A camcorder with a fresh charge, two spare batteries, a 128GB SD card (16+ hours of footage), a charger, an SD card reader, a quick-start card your bridesmaids can read at midnight, and a prepaid return label. FedEx delivers three days before your wedding. You drop it back at any FedEx within 72 hours.

How does the editing actually work?

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Two parts. We ingest every clip, organize it chronologically by timecode, and trim the genuinely useless bits — pocket footage, hand-offs, accidental ceiling shots. What's left is a clean run of your day in order. Then we cut a short opener — three to seven minutes depending on package — pulling the moments that landed on their own. No score, no slow motion, no narrative invented around what happened. The day, plus a sampler.

What about audio at the ceremony?

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Built-in camcorder mics handle a reception fine, but they fall off past about fifteen feet. Every package above The Single includes a wireless lav that clips to the officiant. Add the lav to The Single for $65 — most couples do.

When do we get our footage?

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All raw footage hits your inbox within seven days of the camera coming back. Your organized string-out and stitched opener land within three weeks. Need it sooner? Rush turnaround — ten business days for everything — is +$150.

What if a camera gets dropped or lost?

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A $150 refundable hold sits on every booking. Light wear is on us — we expect it. Total loss runs $400 against the replacement cost. Across every wedding we've shipped, we've kept the full hold twice.

Can we run more than two cameras?

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Yes. Each additional camera is +$125 against any package, capped at six per wedding. More cameras means more angles, more candid moments, more chaos to sift through — and more confidence that the right person was holding a camera when the right thing happened.

Can we add a scored highlight reel too?

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Absolutely. We cut a 90-second cinematic edit — scored, color-graded, the works — for $295. About one in five couples add it for social. The string-out is still the artifact you'll come back to.

Hand it to your people.
Keep the whole day.

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