Capturing that Special Day: Alyson Biggs Films
Gwen Akers
The Ashland Beacon
A lens, a light sensor, and sometimes a mirror are all it takes to create a camera, but nothing else can quite replace the moment-capturing power of a video or photograph. Wedding filmographer Alyson Biggs has found her passion in exactly this: capturing the most beautiful moments in life through her own lens.
Biggs, an Ashland native raised in Ohio, started her journey at the University of Kentucky as an elementary education student but quickly realized that her passion truly lied with the media arts. Inspired by the video work of Taylor Swift and wedding music videos, Biggs changed her major to media arts with a focus on video production. Engaged herself at the time, Biggs fell in love with modern wedding videography and has hit the ground running ever since her graduation.
“Once I graduated, I had a couple of friends that were getting married that summer, and I reached out to them and I said: ‘hey, I really want to get started doing some wedding videography until I can find a more stable job, I’ll do your wedding for free. That was 2013, and I haven't stopped since,” laughed Biggs.
Starting with her friends' weddings and moving out, Biggs’ work has since expanded–taking her across the community and around the nation, even traveling for several destination weddings each year. One trip even took her to Costa Rica!
Biggs is a storyteller who wants to capture beautiful moments for people to go back and remember for years and years. She can remember watching videos of other people’s weddings in the early years of her career and being moved by people she had never even met.
“I feel like I can not only take my passion for video but really make people feel things when they watch it. Almost always when I send their film off and they [her customers] get back to me they're like,’oh my gosh, this is incredible. I forgot all this happened and I'm crying.’ It’s just so nice and fulfilling to know that something that I did will be a part of their lives forever,” detailed Biggs.
Her work also has a personal connection to her own life as Biggs herself will forever be grateful for her own wedding video.
“I've gotten older, and I've been doing this for a little over 10 years now. I've realized how important it is to have these moments to reflect back on. I lost my mom in Jan. of 2022. She passed away from melanoma, and I look back on my wedding video all the time–of her getting me dressed and little things like that,” expressed Biggs.
Videography, according to Biggs, is all about these little details. About the moments shared, and sometimes forgotten, that are now available to people for the rest of their lives. During the pandemic when many were unable to invite all of their family and friends to their ceremonies, Biggs remembered feeling honored she got to be the method so many could be with the bride and groom on their special day.
Biggs hopes that in the future she can continue to reach more people with her videography as well as grow as a videographer herself. To find out more about Biggs’ story, you can check out her website at alysonbiggs.com as well as her Instagram under @alysonbiggsfilms.