People have videos of their wedding made for several  reasons. Once excellent reason is simply to cause those that weren’t lucky to be there a bit of jealousy. And if the wedding ceremony was held in the Bahamas or a foreign country, so much the better. The videographer can include outside location shots of the wedding location, fun recreational events that are taking place, and some of the areas unique points of interest.

Having a wedding videos produced is a perfect gift to give to yourselves as a newly married couple. How much is it worth? In the future, it’ll be priceless.

Every wedding needs a photographer to capture the events. But video can capture and convey things that a photo just can’t. A video can capture moods. It can capture emotion. It can capture sound. It can make you feel like you are there. A photo, is a moment in time. It captures that moment, but doesn’t capture what went before or after that moment. Both are good to have, but a wedding video really lets you truly relive the moment again.

The state and capabilities of video equipment has not stood still over the past ten year. Today,  professional videographers using state of the art video equipment and editing tools can churn out amazing videos that rival those produced by the major studios. In addition, the new digital formats allow editing equipment to place all kinds of special effects into the video which would have been unheard of a few years ago.

One technical question that you may want to ask the videographer is what type of format the video will be filmed in – digital high def or film. THe reason is the digital technology will let an editor include really incredible transitions and special effects and navigation techniques that won’t be possible on film.

Sometimes your wedding photographer will be the same person as your videographer, and sometimes they’ll be different. If they are different, you want to get them both together so they can co-ordinate their schedules, shot setups, and so on. They both will need schedules of what’s going on that day, at what time, and exactly which parts of the day and ceremony they each will be filming. You’ll especially need to let them know of any of the out of the ordinary special events that are happening at the wedding that you want to to be sure to capture on film.

As you are interviewing videographers, one of the questions you want to ask them is if they do the work themselves. Some videographers and video companies contract out a fair percentage of their work. So what you see in the sample videos, could or could not have been produced in-house. If you are paying the fee for them to do it, then they should do it and not farm the work out. The videographer contract will also specify how many DVD copies will be made, method of delivers, and so on.

Most video companies will have multiple cameras at the wedding event. This is so they can capture multiple events happening at once. For example, during the actual ceremony, one camera will of course be trained on the bride. But you want to capture the reactions of the guests as well. So one or more cameras will be aimed at the wedding guests.