Do you film weddings in Lincoln, Nebraska?

Yes. Alma Films is based in Minneapolis and regularly films destination weddings across the Midwest — including Lincoln and greater Nebraska — as well as celebrations worldwide.

Do you film New Year's Eve weddings?

Yes. NYE celebrations ask for a filmmaker who can hold ceremony emotion and midnight energy in the same story. We stay with the vows, the countdown, and the imperfect details that make the night only yours.

What is the Lincoln Cornhusker Marriott like for a wedding film?

It is a classic downtown Lincoln hotel setting with room for a full New Year's Eve celebration. We treat the architecture as atmosphere and keep the camera on the people — confetti, first dances, and the moments between.

Can we see more Alma Films wedding films?

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Wedding FilmsDestination WeddingsNebraska WeddingsMarch 6, 2018

Amanda & Jake's New Year's Eve Wedding in Lincoln

Lincoln Cornhusker Marriott · Lincoln, NE

Amanda and Jake are a remarkable couple — deeply talented, and just as big-hearted. Jake was pitching for the Texas Rangers; Amanda, Miss Nebraska 2014, had built Madida Clothing. Together they founded the Gut It Out Foundation. After a year that asked more of them than most couples face before the vows are even spoken, a New Year's Eve wedding in Lincoln was the right kind of celebration: forward-looking, joyful, and entirely theirs.

We loved filming their Lincoln wedding. Confetti exploded around us not once, but twice. Because Jake is a pitcher, baseball found its way into the details — including concession-style chocolate baseballs. Before midnight, “Cheeseburger in Paradise” came on while McDonald's burgers were delivered. Amanda danced with a cheeseburger in hand among her friends. It was awesome. We were honored to film it.

Amanda & Jake | Lincoln, NE | Alma Films

A New Year's Eve wedding in Lincoln

Lincoln, Nebraska held the night they chose to begin again — not as a quiet winter ceremony, but as a New Year's Eve wedding with the energy of a countdown. The Cornhusker Marriott gave the day its rooms and rhythm; Alma Films was there for the story: first looks, vows, confetti, and the way a room changes when a year is about to turn.

Amanda wore a Pnina Tornai gown from Kleinfeld. The film stays with how she and Jake moved through the night — close, celebratory, and unafraid of joy that looks a little imperfect on purpose.

Frames from the film

Amanda and Jake blowing New Year's Eve party horns in black and white — still from their Lincoln wedding film by Alma Films

Amanda in a white fur wrap and Jake forehead to forehead under sunlit stone arches in Lincoln, Nebraska

Handwritten note from Jake tucked into lavender roses reading Tomorrow is going to be amazing — I Love You, Jake

Amanda putting on an earring while getting ready before her New Year's Eve wedding in Lincoln

“We didn't know the vows of 'for better or for worse' and 'in sickness and in health' would happen so fast, but what we did know was that this year would start out rocky, and end here - so sweet.”

Baseball, confetti, and Cheeseburger in Paradise

Jake's life on the mound showed up in the reception in the best way: chocolate baseballs at the concessions, small nods that made the celebration feel like them. Twice, confetti filled the air around us — the kind of moment you feel in the edit long after the floor is swept.

Then, before midnight, Jimmy Buffett's “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and a delivery of McDonald's burgers. Amanda danced while eating a cheeseburger with her friends. That is the kind of detail a highlight reel made only of pretty rooms would miss — and exactly why we film the way we do.

Gut It Out, and the year that led here

Before the wedding, Jake and Amanda had already turned personal hardship into something public and useful: the Gut It Out Foundation, built to connect people living with inflammatory bowel disease through education and inspiration. Their New Year's Eve vows did not float above that story. The pull quote from the day says it plainly — for better or for worse arrived early, and the year that started rocky ended sweet.

Filming destination work from our Minneapolis base often means traveling for love stories that already have weight. This one carried the full arc: MLB seasons, a Nebraska title, a clothing line, a foundation, and a midnight wedding that refused to be only formal.

Why this film matters

A Lincoln New Year's Eve wedding film is not about proving you can throw a party on December 31. It is a record of how Amanda and Jake sounded when the confetti fell, when the burgers arrived, and when the vows they had already lived finally had a room to land in. Years from now, they will not only see where they stood. They will feel who they were at the turn of the year.

Credits

The team behind the day

VenueLincoln Cornhusker Marriott
PlanningLovestruck Events
PhotographyJessica Blex Photography
FloralCreative Fleurs
Bridal gownPnina Tornai at Kleinfeld
VideographyAlma Films

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