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Brittany
Super August 2023 Alberta

Wedding Videography - Keep or Skip?

Brittany, on September 19, 2022 at 15:26

Posted in Plan a wedding 38

Do you plan on having a videographer at your wedding? Or do you plan to skip it entirely and just get photos done? For myself and my fiancé it was a long-time of going back and forth. When we initially started planning and saw the costs of them we decided it was a bit out of budget so ultimately it...

Do you plan on having a videographer at your wedding? Or do you plan to skip it entirely and just get photos done?

For myself and my fiancé it was a long-time of going back and forth. When we initially started planning and saw the costs of them we decided it was a bit out of budget so ultimately it was a no. This was back when we were planning a wedding at The Whitewood Barn where the wedding was going to be on the more expensive side of weddings.

After a few months we decided to go back to what we always wanted, a small wedding in the mountains. Don't get me wrong, it is still a pricey wedding for only 40 people - but because we were having a smaller wedding we really wanted to catch the special moments - and what moment is more special than the ceremony itself?

So I looked around and found an amazing company that does videographer just for the ceremony (yes this is a thing)! I only found out about it recently and it made me really excited that the most important part of our wedding will forever be professionally video taped and edited to perfection.

Overall - we decided to keep this tradition and I can not wait for the end results!


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  • Hank
    Featured September 2021 Ontario
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    This is a great way to include video on a budget. Having someone just capture things like the ceremony (arguably the most important part) instead of spending a whole day there watching you get ready and eat food etc will still yield you a great video without the heavy costs.

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  • Hank
    Featured September 2021 Ontario
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    I went with video. The video captured certain moments in ways that a photo can't. Take this photo for example, it's fine and all but it didn't capture how we were laughing from struggling to open the bangle!

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    I saved on videography by only looking at vendors that allowed self-editing options. The bulk of the work on a wedding video is done in the postproduction stage but I have video editing experience so it was a way of saving costs.
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  • Lissa
    Devoted October 2022 Ontario
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    Our preference was not to have a videographer, but my FH’s family really wanted one. We found one we could hire for a few hours versus the whole day so that saves us a bit in the end
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  • Julie
    Featured May 2023 Ontario
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    I opted out for this one. My FH hates his picture/video taken....he thinks he looks like an alien LOL Smiley xd So when he told me he hired a photographer, I was in shock LOL

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  • Brittany
    Super August 2023 Alberta
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    Fair enough, some people don't find it necessary and it can be VERY expensive.

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  • Amanda
    Featured August 2022 British Columbia
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    My husband and I skipped this one completely. We didn't want a video from the very start rather have pictures then a video
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