photo courtesy of Peter Jensen, www.floridaportraitartist.com"I'm at the end of my budget, video is an easy cut, right?" Well, it seems so. I mean really, how often will you watch your video? For my wedding, I was planning to have some friends bring their cameras and set them up on tripods. Just so it was recorded. But I got very lucky--just before my wedding, I came to my senses. I asked one of my friends to see her video and I was blown away. I had been a GUEST at her wedding and I didn't know about half the stuff I saw on the video. In her ceremony, we couldn't hear the groom because he was so choked up he was just about whispering. But the videographer had put a microphone on him and everything he said was crystal clear. I was moved to tears watching her video. So I called her videographer, Pro One Video (http://www.proonevideo.com/), took out my last credit card with any room on it, and booked them. And I thank the heavens every day that I did.
To begin, some things happened in my ceremony that I didn't plan. My three very best friends were a part of my ceremony either speaking or singing for us. For the ones that spoke, I didn't choose readings or anything, they wrote their own words and spoke from their hearts. Before the ceremony, my sister told me that she had tissues in her bouquet if I needed them. When my friends were speaking, I started to cry. Big time. Here I was, worried that I'm going to mess up my makeup and have my false eyelashes run down my face like spiders and my sister is watching the reading. In the opposite direction. I couldn't get her attention. Finally, I snapped my fingers (which brought dead silence to the whole room), hung my head and pointed to her bouquet. I got tissues, lots of laughs and I got all that on video.
I also didn't really think about it beforehand, but my husband and I have such a story and for us to finally get married after all we'd been through was major and sweet and wonderful and a real life fairy tale. So when our officiant asked me if I take this man to be my husband, I said , "And how!!!" LOL! I've got it on video.
And I've also got video of my father doing a striptease and my mother dancing with him with a dollar bill in her teeth (they've been divorced for over 30 years!) I wasn't in the room when it happened. And that's just the point. On your wedding day, you can't be everywhere at once. Your day is rushing by like a blur. Let your video team be your eyes and record everything. Of course you'll have photos of everything (I don't even have to blog to tell anyone how important photos are--they know!), but the difference is that video is LIVING pictures.
As time passes, the flower girl and ring bearer will grow up, people will change and some people will be lost. (It happened to me personally right after my wedding--special thanks to Mark LeGrand with Pro One Video for doing the unthinkable in his industry and providing me with raw footage of my sister Lisa. We lost her unexpectedly only 7 months after my wedding and I was able to give the video to her children. She was only 25.) It's wonderful to have photos of all of your guests, but it's an even better memory to see them as they were: happy, dancing, all dressed up and full of love and good wishes for you in your new life.
It's worth it. Do yourself a favor and book a videographer. Capture this moment in your lives and all the wonderful faces in them.
(Oh--and make sure you don't try to save money by having only one camera at the ceremony. I had one bride years ago that cut her budget there. The videographer turned the camera on, red light was flashing, and somehow the camera didn't work at ALL for her whole ceremony. She ended up with a photo montage instead of hearing herself say her vows!)
To begin, some things happened in my ceremony that I didn't plan. My three very best friends were a part of my ceremony either speaking or singing for us. For the ones that spoke, I didn't choose readings or anything, they wrote their own words and spoke from their hearts. Before the ceremony, my sister told me that she had tissues in her bouquet if I needed them. When my friends were speaking, I started to cry. Big time. Here I was, worried that I'm going to mess up my makeup and have my false eyelashes run down my face like spiders and my sister is watching the reading. In the opposite direction. I couldn't get her attention. Finally, I snapped my fingers (which brought dead silence to the whole room), hung my head and pointed to her bouquet. I got tissues, lots of laughs and I got all that on video.
I also didn't really think about it beforehand, but my husband and I have such a story and for us to finally get married after all we'd been through was major and sweet and wonderful and a real life fairy tale. So when our officiant asked me if I take this man to be my husband, I said , "And how!!!" LOL! I've got it on video.
And I've also got video of my father doing a striptease and my mother dancing with him with a dollar bill in her teeth (they've been divorced for over 30 years!) I wasn't in the room when it happened. And that's just the point. On your wedding day, you can't be everywhere at once. Your day is rushing by like a blur. Let your video team be your eyes and record everything. Of course you'll have photos of everything (I don't even have to blog to tell anyone how important photos are--they know!), but the difference is that video is LIVING pictures.
As time passes, the flower girl and ring bearer will grow up, people will change and some people will be lost. (It happened to me personally right after my wedding--special thanks to Mark LeGrand with Pro One Video for doing the unthinkable in his industry and providing me with raw footage of my sister Lisa. We lost her unexpectedly only 7 months after my wedding and I was able to give the video to her children. She was only 25.) It's wonderful to have photos of all of your guests, but it's an even better memory to see them as they were: happy, dancing, all dressed up and full of love and good wishes for you in your new life.
It's worth it. Do yourself a favor and book a videographer. Capture this moment in your lives and all the wonderful faces in them.
(Oh--and make sure you don't try to save money by having only one camera at the ceremony. I had one bride years ago that cut her budget there. The videographer turned the camera on, red light was flashing, and somehow the camera didn't work at ALL for her whole ceremony. She ended up with a photo montage instead of hearing herself say her vows!)
I think you've hit on something really important here. We did splurge for videography and AFTER the wedding I realized how many details/moments I missed and how much I was looking forward to seeing them on video!
ReplyDeleteYou're exactly right--and also, you can't be in two places or more at once, so many moments are missed. The video gives you a totally different point of view. Hope your video turns out awesome!!!
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