Check Out Kennedy and Joey Bailey’s Story

Today we’d like to introduce you to Kennedy and Joey Bailey.

Hi Kennedy and Joey, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstories with our readers?
Hi Voyage Phoenix Magazine! Thank you so much for asking us to be on your platform. We truly couldn’t be more excited to share our story! To start My husband Joey and I have been together for 8 years now.

We are high school sweethearts! Right out of high school, we started traveling the world together. We bought a GoPro and started making travel videos for fun. We had such a blast with it! A year or two later, we discovered wedding videos on YouTube when they were not very well-known or popular yet and we just fell in love with them!

We would watch them for hours and were mesmerized. We decided to try it out and go for it ourselves a year later. We then went and bought our first real-time camera and filmed our first wedding. We came home that night and both said, “This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.”

We’ve both always wanted to pursue creative careers, and we were both actually going to school for business when we decided filmmaking in the wedding industry was what we were truly passionate about. We love weddings and being such a special part of preserving a forever memory for our couples.

There’s nothing like making great connections with our brides and grooms and having them turn into long-lasting friends. We love being able to create a film they will hold onto so closely and show their kids and generations down the line.

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Starting a business never feels smooth! There are so many ups and downs in running a business.

For us running a full-time business is what fuels + and fulfills us but in many moments it can also exhaust us and drain our tanks easily if we aren’t careful. Throw in a 2-year long pandemic in there while also going full-time is not for the weak haha. I think a big part of being an entrepreneur is remembering why you started!

Building our business has been grueling, exciting, inspiring, and exhausting. Remembering why we started keeps us centered whenever we need a little push. Some struggles in this creative business and really any business you’ve built is having a work/ life balance and separating boundaries between your normal life and your business life.

Normal 9-5 jobs work all day and then get to come home and don’t have to think about work until they arrive back and can kind of let loose and take a break. Running your own business is tricky because you’re the only one behind the wheels! Sometimes, I’ll respond to an email at 2 a.m, or be working on my phone while I’m out with friends or if I’m on a much-needed vacation I’m stressing about getting behind.

Running a business is extremely time-consuming. You have the freedom to take time off, but in reality, you never do. In fact, you’ll probably have less free time than you’d have working for someone else. For many entrepreneurs and small business owners, a forty-hour workweek is a myth.

I think the biggest struggle + and stressor is your success is 100% up to you!

As you know, we’re big fans of you and your work. For our readers who might not be as familiar what can you tell them about what you do?
We are destination wedding videographers! We specialize in micro weddings and elopements. We are known for the way we capture emotion and bring it back into films. We handcraft each film we make specific to each couple we work with! We are most proud of how much we’ve grown from when we first started.

Looking back to only 3 years ago we are doing things that we only could have dreamt of doing In our 10-year plan and we accomplished almost it all in 3 small years. Currently, we are getting ready to film weddings in Turks and Caicos, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and so many amazing US stateside destinations.

A thing we would say sets us apart from other creatives in our industry is the way we connect with our couples! We get to know them on a personal level way and start developing their love story way before we show up to capture them at their wedding.

We know how we want to build their film and what emotions we want to touch on before we start putting it together.

Any advice for finding a mentor or networking in general?
Finding a mentor in this industry is huge! Find the people who inspire you and learn from them, grow from them, and let them teach you.

Having friends in the same industry to lean on, support each other, and exchange advice is everything! I know it sounds cliche but community over competition is super important.

The more people you meet and connect with, the more opportunities come pouring in!

Contact Info:

• Email: happysappyfilms@gmail.com
• Website: www.happysappyfilms.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/happysappyfilms/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/happysappyfilms/?ref=page_internal
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd9oZpDigE8dsQOAZckDiIQ
• Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@happysappyfilms