Do we need a Wedding Videographer?
I can’t really tell you if you need a wedding videographer, that’s a question that only you hold the answer to and every single wedding is different with different needs. However, I can point you to a survey from The Knot, which states couples who chose not to have a wedding videographer at their wedding was the biggest regret for a lot of couples. Incidentally, there aren’t a lot of people out there giving out about how they regretted hiring a videographer for their wedding. The experience of some other couples not enticing you? Let’s see if I can convince you.
1. The difference between a Videographer and a Photographer.
You might think that hiring a videographer and a photographer is overkill for documenting the day but the two arts are completely different. Wedding days disappear faster than any other day I can think of, before you know it, it’s done. Gone. Committed to memory. There are things that you’ll miss. A great videographer will capture moments that you’re not even around for, like that excited grin on the groom’s face as the bride walks up the aisle. What a videographer can do that a photographer can’t is capture the atmosphere and the motion to go with that emotion. A great videographer can skilfully craft your whole wedding into an exciting retelling of a truly awesome day, as it happened, in beautiful wedding film. If you’d like to some examples, check out our Real Weddings.
2. A good Videographer works in tandem with your Photographer.
This is the secret sauce for having some out-of-this-world-awesome wedding photos and videos. I’ve yet to meet a photographer that I haven’t been able to help out on the day and one that hasn’t been able to help me out in return. I’ve even made some amazing life long friends that I’ve met working together at a wedding! Together, we can pick the best locations for your photoshoot, find the best lighting and the best poses. And better yet, a videographer captures everything that happens on either side of your awesome photo and that’s the where the charm is. It’s where personality lives. When the groom gets it slightly wrong and you both buckle over with laughter! All of those lovely little moments around the photographs are just magic.
3. A photo captures what you look like. Video captures who you are.
A photograph freezes a moment in time. That one moment. It’s beautiful. A moving image, and that’s how I think of video, photography in motion, can capture everything. The way you move. The way you hold yourself. The way you lean in to kiss your new official life long companion. It’s properly special. Really. And leaving you out of it for a second (although you are top dog at your wedding), video captures the tone of voice in your dads speech, the best man’s worst joke and of course, the excited flutter of an “I do”, at your ceremony. In my mind, it just can’t be beat.
4. The cost of a wedding videographer, it’s worth more than you might think.
Weddings can cost a lot of money. Fitting everything you want into your budget is tough. That’s a fact. From flowers and dresses to entertaining your family and friends, the list goes on. However, all of the things that you’ve spent that money on and spent so long planning is all over once that day ends. But if you have the atmosphere captured in a film you get to relive that again and again forever. We wrote an article on the cost of wedding videography that you can check out if you’d like to find out a little more about how it all works.
One important thing to note; try to not let cost be your deciding factor for your wedding videographer. You would be better off booking a videographer who has a style that you like and will capture your day how you’d like to see it. In ten years, whatever the financial difference was won’t look like much, but your wedding film absolutely will. I can promise you that.
5. A picture is worth a thousand words. What about video?
They say a picture is a worth a thousand words. So what’s a video worth? Bottom line on this one is that a photograph captures just one moment. One frame. Video is 25 frames per second. I’ll let you do the math on this one and hope to hear from you for your big day!
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