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The Perfect Wedding Video

Kris and Angela got married last year and recently celebrated their first year anniversary. Some of the images from their wedding have served as the “face” of our business for the past year. We normally don’t upload the entire wedding video online because of the size of the files, but Google allows unlimited time and file sizes so I’ve decided to test this feature out. The wedding video size is heavily compressed, but it’s pretty amazing that a one hour video can be placed online.

For any brides that view this video, know that your wedding videos are custom made. All kinds of factors play into how the final product will turn out. Every wedding video will be different because each wedding is unique. When I say unique I mean some are action packed, loud and full of emotion. Other weddings may be more subdued and relaxed. I provide the artistic style of the wedding video and try to create something that is emotional, true and beautiful. If your wedding wasn’t quite perfect, I do what I can to edit out the parts that weren’t so good and allow you to remember the beautiful moments. There are a lot of variables and it takes tremendous amount of focused energy out of me to create wedding videos. I try to place myself in the shoe of the bride, groom, mother of the bride, etc if that is at all possible. It’s pretty special to have a wedding video. Every time I create a finished product I get excited because I know it will mean so much to the bride. I even watch it 4 or 5 times!

When Rebekah and I got married we hired the best wedding videographer we could find. Guess what? He forgot to show! Can you believe that? How does someone forget to show up? I don’t know, but they had the nerve to say why didn’t you call us? My wife said, “Did you want me to stop the ceremony at the altar and call you guys?” I’m still bitter about it since you can’t recreate a wedding, but what can I do?

Before hiring a wedding videographer or cinematographer as some wedding videographers like to call themselves, check out a full video. Some videographers create a short 20 to 30 minute cinematic show of your wedding day and it’s beautiful on the surface, but it lacks depth. Other videographers create no emotion at all and give you two hours of boring material without any creativity. It’s a fine balance to create something worth watching.

Usually, I limit the message of the pastor, priest, officiant to no more than 5 minutes, but in Angela’s wedding the priest was the great uncle of the bride. He gave a very personalized and touching message so he got more coverage. I almost always limit the video to 1 hour max, because I want it to be watchable. If you want to see all 8 tapes worth from your wedding day I suggest purchasing the RAW footage DVD. It’s only $300 extra and no one else will want to watch it with you, but you will probably want it in the long run.

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