One of our last-minute add on decisions was to have a videographer for our wedding day. We had not even contemplated this until about a month before the wedding, when we saw Matt Odom’s other wedding video circulate the internet. We knew upon seeing it that it was exactly what we wanted, but didn’t know existed. After contacting him and fitting him into our (already tight) budget, we worked out all the details fairly easily for such short notice. He has produced a short video of the wedding day highlights and we could not be more in love with the end result. It was exactly as we discussed and hoped for, only better! As a result we have a beautiful video to watch over and over again and to share with everyone our amazing day. It was some of our best spent money, and an area we frightfully almost overlooked!
HIRE A VIDEOGRAPHER! (Especially Matt if you can! He was over-the-top amazing!)
I’ve just been looking through some of my favourite wedding websites and remembered this amazing wedding video that was posted on Style Me Pretty and I just had to share it.
So, if a picture is worth 1,000 words, and a video is essentially a large number of still pictures strung together- how many words is a video worth?
Image from theweddingnetwork.co.uk
Videography is a growing trend among brides these days. I’ve seen a number of wedding videos. Some better than others. Audio always leaving something to be desired.
It’s hard for me to pinpoint, but there is something that rubs me the wrong way about having videographer document your wedding.
Honeysuckle Dude and I had a friend videotape our wedding as a favor. Having a friend take over the service meant I really didn’t have a lot of expectations. I really just wanted a bit of video with our vows and first dance, nothing that would cost my first born child since I don’t anticipate viewing it often.
Honeysuckle mom-in-law sent me an article about marryoke recently. I had never heard of this in my planning. Apparently, the idea is to create a music video with you and all of your loved ones lip syncing and adding the theatrics for the song. From what I can tell on Youtube, marryoke runs the range of cheesiness, silliness, bizarre, and touching.
I personally am not a big musical fan. My tolerance for group dancing and singing is not high, so trying to coordinate a marryoke video would have driven me batty. But I do think it’s very original and a chance to bring some spunk and humor into the wedding video business. What’s your take? Would you participate if a bride/groom asked you to? Are you planning on doing this?
