The Simply Cinema staff was wonderful to work with on our special day! They partnered extremely well with our photographers to capture certain shots, poses, and moments and were completely unobtrusive throughout the process. During editing, they were open to feedback and made a couple minor adjustments but the video was otherwise great as-is. Our wedding film turned out beautiful, and we feel captured the sweetness, peace, and love of our wedding. It's something we'll look back on as a couple with our family and friends forever to relive the day. read more

When deciding where to spend our money for our November 2011 wedding, we knew we wanted a videographer! Most aspects of the wedding will come and go (hopefully not the spouse!) but a video would allow to enjoy our day over and over again. After a bit of research, we decided to use Simply Cinema. They did a great job on the highlight film. I could watch that 10 minute clip over and over again . . . and I have. I would have liked a little more human/live interaction. In all of the exchanges there was only one phone call (I think, maybe, that may have been the first phone call I made to initiate service). There was a lot of communication via email and an online survey to capture what I wanted in my video. Very convenient, yet not much of a personal feel. I have never used a videographer before, so knowing how to answer the questions on the survey was a little difficult, it would have been helpful to have a live person to talk me through my options. For example, I was asked to select three songs to be on my highlight video. The three I picked were not available due to copyright, so they picked songs for me. The songs they picked are fine (again, I love the highlight video), however if I was given a list of 'approved' songs to pick from I might have been able to get songs that I wanted. The two videographers that filmed our wedding day were awesome, I really enjoyed having them there. Nice, funny, just kinda quietly hung out in the background, getting everything on tape, and stepping in to help or offer a suggestion when needed. Turns out there was a problem with one of the cameras and the wide shot during the wedding was blurry. Kind of a bummer when I was saying my vows. After notifying the owner we did end up getting the raw footage at no cost to make up for the blurry shot. That was nice. Overall, the work was good and the prices reasonable. A little to be desired with the communication, but if you know that going into it, you can be prepared for it and still get a good product without blowing the budget. read more

We used Simply Cinema for my daughter's wedding in October. We just received the video footage and all I can say is, "Wow!" They did a phenomenal job - exceeded our expectations. Highly recommend. read more

One word. WOW. Simply Cinema went above and beyond. Taryn and her amazing team of videographers and editors beautifully captured the most important day for my husband and I. Day of, they arrived early, were super friendly and very professional. We hardly noticed them. My husband and I just received our wedding video and we were just blown away. We received our film just when they said they would. They are so speedy! I can't stop watching my wedding video :) I would absolutely recommend this amazing team to any brides in the Arizona or California area. They are worth every penny! read more

Having been (slightly) part of the industry before, I knew the high standards I would hold when I hired a videographer for my wedding. I began my search and continued to find companies that were good.. but weren't great. My engagement photographer suggested Simply Cinema and I instantly fell incredibly in love with their style. After one meeting with the owner Taryn (the sweetest and realest person you'll probably find in the wedding industry these days), my husband and I hired her company to shoot our big day. The two videographers showed up on time to our venue and quickly got to work. They were kind, personable and I honestly didn't even remember they were there -- in a good way. They were always in the right place at the right time and were never in the way. When we got our email confirming that our video was finally ready to view we were absolutely ecstatic! We clicked the link and instantly felt like we were reliving our big day. The songs they chose for our video were beautiful and timeless and the video immediately bright us to tears. If you're looking for an affordable, friendly, efficient, talented and incredible videography company then you absolutely need to hire Simply Cinema. Thank you so much for all of your hard work, Taryn and team! read more

Okay, I will admit upfront that I'm pretty annoyed with Simply Cinema. So yes, that does color my review. That being said, they basically did what they said they'd do. They have a good quality video, and a highlight film which is awesome to share with people. So why am I annoyed? Because they deleted all my wedding footage after delivering the DVD before I had a chance to review the DVD. Yes, they told me they would be deleting it, but I didn't have a chance to do so in their time frame (~2 weeks). So they went ahead and deleted the footage without notifying me (there was no "if you don't respond by this date we will delete your footage" email), so that when I was finally able to get back to them, it was already gone. Why does that piss me off? Because I had asked for some footage to be included in full on the DVD after the fact (an impromtu dance from the wedding that they captured), and got email confirmation from them that it would be included on the DVD before they made the DVD. Guess what wasn't on my DVD? And guess what I can't get added to my DVD because they already deleted it? What they delivered was decent, but you have to operate to their schedule, not vice versa. And for what I paid, I feel it should be opposite. Their work is fine, but the fact that they never stated their data retention policy at any point, and the nasty responses I have gotten from the business owner (after posting the review above verbatim on another site) makes me knock their rating down. If I had received my DVD with the additional dances on them, it would have been 5-stars all the way. read more

Simply Cinema was FANTASTIC! The footage was amazing, you can really tell how much detail and work they put into their film. The film turned out really special and absolutely perfect, exactly what I wanted! The videographers were very professional and enjoyable to have at the wedding. Really happy with the service and the product! Definitely recommend them!! read more

Working with Taryn and Simply Cinema was the best investment I could have made! I was nervous about hiring a videographer because of how pricy they are, but after looking though Simply Cinema's videos I'm so glad we made the investment! The Simply Cinema team that was their on our wedding day were great! They made me feel comfortable about all the cameras around and were just fun to have around! Once we received the finished product I was beyond impressed! The video really told a beautiful and fun story about how my husband and I met to where we are today. I'm really glad we decided to hire Simply Cinema! I couldn't be happier with our video! read more

We had the most amazing experience with Simply Cinema! Their videographers are wonderful and were so much fun to work with. Our videos completely exceeded my expectations and were so incredible!!! Even the music they chose was perfect. They really captured so many of my favorite moments from our day. Taryn and her staff are so easy to work with, and make the process so enjoyable. I am very thankful that I chose to hire them for my videography. They are hands down the best in AZ!!! read more

Simply Cinema was AMAZING for our wedding! We were in LOVE with all of their footage and especially loved the highlight film! You can tell they spend a lot of time really making it look special. I would recommend them to everyone! :) read more

We contracted Simply Cinema to shoot our wedding several few weeks before the big day. All went well during the filming of the wedding, and their videographers were friendly. Towards the end of the transaction a few weeks later, we had several concerns. We purchased a package that included DVDs of our wedding footage. We were sent a USB drive that contained files of footage, not the continuous wedding footage we paid for. We contacted them right away (their communication could've been much better...took forever to return calls, they responded by email when we specifically asked for a call, etc). When we finally were able to get a hold of them, they said that package we purchased was no longer available, which meant they did not make that DVD anymore. This was the ONLY reason we paid for a videographer, to have a DVD full of wedding footage! Their excuse for the change: they didn't "do that kind of technology anymore." The kicker, is that they never let us know the package we paid for several months before had "changed." So we were stuck with a USB drive of files of footage, not a DVD of continuous, chronilogical order time line of events like we paid (a lot) for. They said they couldn't make it right, because they didn't have the capability to make a full-length DVD....what decade are they living in? Bottom line: they changed the package without telling us, didn't do anything to help us make it right and make the customer feel good about their expensive purchase. They sent us some blank DVDs so we could make the transfer ourselves. Gee, thanks. I'm glad we paid you a lot of money to do this for us, and in the end you didn't do it!!! We won't be recommending you to anyone. read more

We initially hired Simply-Cinema. 3 weeks prior to our wedding Simply-Cinema decided to break the contract. We called Taryn to ask some simple questions in regards to pricing and turn around time for the video. In all honesty, we talked to Taryn in regards to payments, we wanted to know their flexibility, and timing for payments. Only because we had friends that had bad experience with other vendors (videographers to be exact) that took almost a year to receive video. So we just wanted re-assurance or anything that would make us feel comfortable knowing that it would take extra time to receive our video. In midst of conversation Taryn (this is the only person we had any contact with) started to make offensive comments like- that it was not her fault that couples do not budget correctly etc. Which this was NOT the case, never once was that even true or ever our intention, we were on a contract and everything until that day was going just perfectly fine. I was extremely offended when she mention that to my Fiance. All we wanted was assurance and wanted to have a simple conversation with our videographer. I am not sure if Taryn was having a bad day that day, but as business owners ourselves- we would never give such bad customer service, furthermore, insult anyone the way Taryn did. Luckily, we were able to find another great videographer just three weeks prior to our wedding. read more