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Some aspects of your wedding day can ONLY be captured by video.

Consider the toasts at your reception. Best men and maids of honor typically craft their toasts and sometimes come up with words that are awesome to preserve for all time. These messages are rarely preserved in any form whatsoever and are usually lost with fading memories and fading magnetic tape of home movies. Imagine hearing those endearing messages many years after the wedding reception. But not only hearing them, hearing them with a quality unavailable with home movies. The clang of dishes as wait staff moves around can only be heard as distant sounds against the vibrant maid of honor’s voice.

Some aspects of your wedding day can ONLY be captured by video. Consider your vows. It is common for couples to craft their own vows and carefully wordsmith them to death over a period of months. Without video those vows will only survive through the powers of your memory and any memementos you may have retained from that day on which your vows were printed.

 A pro videographer will wire up the groom and perhaps the officiant with wireless UHF diversity microphones that typically even pick up whispers at the altar. Imagine being able to listen to yourselves ten or more years down the road speaking your vows. Hearing your own voices speaking your vows renews the commitment of that day reviving emotions that may have dulled with time.

Deciding how anything concerning your wedding is going to be accomplished should be done with careful thought. The Bible says, “There is safety in a multitude of counselors.” 

Try to contact recent brides and get their opinions. Whether they got pro video services or not, consider each opinion. Consider especially opinions from those who received video services. To find brides consider joining web forums and solicit opinions of past brides. Ask your friends and relatives for names and contact information of past brides.

Most recent brides will overflow with answers if you ask them about their wedding and services they contracted for. Here are some questions to ask recent brides:

·        If you had to pick between your still photos and video, which would you say is more important to you? 

·        What was your original reasoning for having pro-videography?

·        How did you find your videographer? 

·        If you had it to do again, what would you do different with your videography arrangements? 

·        Were there any particular aspects of wedding videography you had in mind when shopping? 

·        If shopping again:

o       Where would you look for pro videographers?

o       What would you look for?

o       What questions would you ask?

·        What differences did you observe between those you interviewed?

·        What “Lessons-Learned” did you come away with after your wedding concerning videography? 

·        Do you know of any other recent brides who might like to answer these same questions?