Video or nah?

If you have the funds to spend I would do it if not then don't. I knew that was one of my "wants" for our wedding.

I agree with PP, while many say it is definitely worth it, if it’s something you just can’t fit into your budget then don’t force it 😊 my FH and I personally are not, we are just having photography.

I do think it’s worth it but if you don’t have the money for it and have a photographer then it’s ok to skip video

I’d pick videography over photos if you have to choose. You can always grab stills from the video if you love it as a photo. Also, I can imagine watching the video 10, 20, 30 years from now. Photos are nice but not as necessary in my book. A lot of video packages have both a 60 second social media teaser and a longer 6-12 min video of the highlights. It’s a lot more fun to watch a video set to fun music and relive the laughs and render moments than flip through giant photo album. Photos are still nice, but I’d rank video higher than photos.

Its literally a music video of your whole day from morning to tonight! There’s a lot of editing involved to make it cinematic and fun, their prices reflect that. I actually think they do more work than photographers.

I think photos are more of a priority than video but if you can fit both in your budget and you want a video that’s fine. Most of my friends that did a video watch it once a year at the most. My parents can’t watch their wedding video from the 80s because they don’t have the technology to play it anymore. But photos in an album or frames are something classic that you’ll be able to look at forever.

View Quoted Comment So I would disagree with this. In the 90s people got their wedding video on VHS and have no way to watch that now. DVDs from the 2000s are becoming similar. A video is something you’ll have to stay on top of to update to the latest technology to be able to watch it. Not saying it’s not worth it because for some people it is but I don’t think it will be super easy to press play in 30 years. Just something to think about that! I say this as someone whose parents can’t watch their wedding video haha.

View Quoted Comment Oh no! Tell your parents there are services that can transfer their VHS into digital. You put your photos, cassette tapes, whatever obsolete stuff in a box and mail it in. When they’re done, they return the original items plus digital files to you. It’d be a shame to lose access to their wedding video. I’m sure there are stores who can do it locally if they feel more comfortable doing it in person.


Last year, a friend rewatched part of her parents wedding video (transferred to digital) with family and the bridal party at the rehearsal dinner. It was really touching because her grandfather passed away and she teared up because it’d been so long she had forgotten how he sounded. Your parents should still be able to watch theirs if they want! I get your point tho about tech changing. I can see friends wedding videos from 2010 on Facebook still but what if FB begins charging storage fees? I think they still have their own digital files but I think it shouldn’t be that hard to transfer onto a new tech.

View Quoted Comment It was actually whatever the technology was before VHS, I don’t remember what exactly! It’s definitely possible to continue transferring things just something to think about versus an album that will always stay the same.

100% worth every penny. We actually decided against videography due to budget and then 6 weeks before the wedding I had massive regret and hired a videographer who partners with our photographer (luckily he was available). When I was feeling post-wedding blues honestly looking at our photos just made me sad but watching our video actually cheered me up hugely. It lets you relive the day in a way that photos just can’t. Another bonus is my husband’s grandmother was unable to attend our wedding (she lives across the country and is not healthy enough to do a long flight) and we’re actually visiting her this weekend and going to show her our video, and we’re just so excited because she’s really going to be able to feel like she was there and experience the day through the video! Same thing goes for when we have kids, grandkids, etc. So I think it is amazing for us to be able to have to reexperience it, and our loved ones who couldn’t make it (either because they couldn’t travel or because they haven’t been born yet hahah) to be able to experience it!



Long response I know, but I’m just super passionate about this hahaha. I know I would’ve regretted it MASSIVELY if I didn’t have our video, it is just priceless to me.

Worth every penny! I absolutely love our wedding videos! We watch them all of the time and I cannot imagine not having them.

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Ideally, OP has both photo and video. Personally, if I had to choose, I’d choose video because I’m the kind of person who enjoys video more and it’s easy to create photos from video.

It’s quite easy to grab stills from a video if you like certain frames. We do this all the time with our GoPro. My fiancé hates taking lots of photos but doesn’t mind taking video of us surroundings. Our fave photos of ourselves are the stills we grabbed from the videos. You can go frame by frame to choose the best version (eyes open, wind blowing in your hair just right, laugh at its biggest and more genuine looking, just before your lips touch and kiss, someone’s shocked expression). When you grab stills, the photos come out really dynamic and natural and non posed. Similar to what to you get from a documentary style photographer if you’re into that kind of style. Since most professional videographers are shooting at 60 FPS (that’s how they do the slo mo and fast transitions), you can get really really really high quality stills that can be blown up to quite large canvas size if desired.