Do I Need A Wedding Video?

Short answer: YES! of course you do!

But this wouldn’t be much of a blog post if I didn’t go in to some reasons why you might regret not hiring a professional to document your day.

It’s all about the budget: “If only we had have budgeted for a video from the start” I have heard this many a time when speaking to brides at wedding fayres. It’s true that when it comes to planning a wedding, for most of us there is not a bottomless supply of funds to dip into. However, if you do a bit of research, you will find plenty of templates and budgeting advice on the internet to help decide where to spend your hard earned money. Most of these will include an amount set aside for a video. Of course I am totally biased, filming weddings is what I do, I love it and would recommend that everyone budgets to have a wedding video. In reality however, for most people having your wedding day filmed will not be the first thing on your “to do” list. You may decide in the end to not have your day filmed, and that is fine, but it is better to budget for it initially, and have extra money left over at the end, then to not budget for it at all and regret not having your perfect day filmed.

“It will all be a blur”... Yes, we’ve heard it a million times before, and yes we will probably find ourselves saying it to other people after we have got married. The sad fact however is, that unless you have an incredibly accurate photographic memory, parts of your day will become lost over time. It is normal. It happened to me, of course I remember my wedding day and I remember the food we ate and the place we were, my beautiful wife’s face as she walked down the aisle towards me and what the weather was like. But there are a thousand details that slip through the folds in our mind. I’m so glad we have got our photographs, and so glad we have got our video. There it is, wedding video, another way to capture these fleeting moments and immortalise them. Your videographer may even capture moments that you would otherwise not have ever seen, an embrace between family members, your fiancé’s knowing smile before the ceremony or the wibble in your father’s top lip as he walks you down the aisle.

Ask your friends: Most people I meet either say: 1) It’s the best thing we have got from our wedding or 2) I wish we’d have had it filmed. Which one will you say? If you are curious about wedding video or would like to see some examples of what a modern wedding film can look like, please visit the link to my profile.