ABOUT PAUL

I grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I started my own punk rock revolution at Nathan Hale High School. I always played music and made art. My Father worked in advertising, he taught me the value of quality and got me excited about business. My Mother was a dancer, she taught me the value of art and expanded my horizons of creativity. Everyone in our six person family is into creating things. As soon as I was able, I started playing music, shooting photos on my Kodak X15 and making movies with my Dad's 8mm film camera.

I graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee with a degree in Broadcasting in 1990. In school I learned how to combine technologies to make art. I learned the technical side, how to hook up the wires and set up the gear to get the best raw material. I learned how to bring it back to the lab and turn it into something people want to see.

After college I went into advertising. I had a good career working for agencies and left in 1997 to work for myself creating websites. I moved to Denver and started SpireMedia. In 2002 I sold it to my partner and went traveling with a video camera.

I made some short films and one got into the South by Southwest Film Festival. I discovered my next career, film making. I also met my future wife Rachel. When I told her I wanted to shoot short documentary films of weddings she said "hell ya!". We started a business, PS Productions, in Denver.

In 2004 I moved to Mexico and started PlayaWeddings. Rachel has joined me, we got married. We continue to document weddings in one of the most beautiful places on earth. Weddings are amazing stories each and every time. We never get tired of capturing that story, the personalities and bringing it together in the editing room.