Thoughts on Live-streaming?

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Hi Abbie, this might be useful for you www.e-there.com/self-stream

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If you are ever looking for a high quality live stream for your wedding day, check out www.e-there.com

Live stream is a way to connect to those guests that can't attend in person and if you have a videographer, he may know if you let them know beforehand you're interested to set it up.

View quoted message You’re welcome Abbie! 😁

View quoted message Oh wow - you thought of everything! Thank you so much for sharing!


What did you sing?

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Here's what our setup looked like.

Here's what the captured angle looks like from the stream.

I purposely left it off the aisle so that my wife and her parents wouldn't have to walk around it or accidently knock into it but that also meant that sometimes my mom blocked me when everyone was standing as the bride walked down. Normally it wouldn't be a big deal but because I was singing, people online sent me messages that I needed to move a few steps to my right to be in view lol.

We could've patched to the DJ board for cleaner audio but the distance between the locations of the iPad and the DJ made it a hassle. Hearing us was no problem since we were mic'd so our voices were amplified. I also had a second DSLR off to the side capturing an uninterrupted stream of the wedding in case something went wrong and we could just immediately upload that to a private YouTube channel and send out the link.

View quoted message Ok, great - thank you! Did you have a tripod and just set it up in the front row? How did you capture sound? (Hope you don’t mind all the questions 🙈)

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I used an iPad because we had wifi but you can install the app on your phone and use a data plan.

View quoted message I’ll have to ask my photographer! Thank you, Tunisha!

View quoted message Oh what a neat option!! Does it work on data? What device did you use?

View quoted message Hi Carmel, thank you so much! This made me feel so much better about the idea of live streaming - it sounds like your guests were really able to be included! Plus, getting to keep it is a huge bonus!

View quoted message Hahahaha! We actually do, we have 25GB each.
However, in this case, the photographer did it for us with his data. Haha!

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How did you stream without internet? I hope you had a REALLY good data plan on your phone lol

Hello Abbie,
We did live steaming for family in other country and who could not make it. Our photographer had a camera for the live streaming and it was amazing option. We were so happy that he had that. Maybe you can look into if your photographer has any idea or have that option.

Also, our second option would have been Zoom.
Our venue did not have wifi. So that was a bit annoying. But it worked. Hahaha

Just use EventLive. It only costs $50 USD and it's the best live streamer for weddings I've seen. All it takes is for someone to turn on the app and hit record when the time comes (we did it 20 minutes early so that guests can start "coming in" prior to the actual ceremony start). It comes with a guest book so people can leave messages for you.

Your guests won't need to download any apps or use any particular social media. It can be accessed through a browser and the link stays up for a year so anyone around the world in an awkward time zone can watch it at a later time when they're not in bed.

We did it! We are SOOO happy. Our guests here and around the world said it felt like they were watching a movie. It was also online for a while so they could go to bed after the ceremony and watch the reception in the morning 😂. We got to download it all after as well. It was indoors but we did use zoom for our legal ceremony on our original date, outside due to lockdowns, and I would 10000% recommend hiring someone for outdoors. You can only hear me as I project my voice but you cannot hear my husband (we recorded it) and only sometimes the officiant. You can invest in the proper mic etc but I would take that stress off your hands and hire someone. It is cheaper than videography as they don't edit. I'm not sure sharing what we paid will help you as our locations are different, but I believe we paid about $1800 for 4-5 hours.