Videographer/photographer timeline?

It really depends on how much of the day you want captured. We’re doing the entire day with our photographer and videographer because we want to make sure to capture everything. I’d rather end up with too many photos and too much footage than regret missing something!

Usually it’s the whole day unless your event is really long then people do a mock exit just to have it film and photos so they don’t have to stick around the whole night when they got pretty much all the important moments. Video can be whatever you want, usually they go to the reception as well to film the entrance, first dance, cake cutting, and other important moments as well as some dancing. Hope this helps.

View Quoted Comment Thank you!! We’re not doing a first dance and not sure about cake cutting, so we’ll probably have the photographer all day and the videographer for the first few hours. I appreciate the input everyone gives on here, it’s so helpful.

We're getting the videographer all day (10 hrs) and photographer for 4 hrs

Our photog/video vendors already had packages of 8 and 9hrs. So we booked them for 8hrs. Thinking of the timeline of pre-wedding prep photos, 1st look, ceremony, cocktail hour and a 4hr reception I figured that was enough time to accurately capture our day. Decide what events you want them to capture and that will help determine how long you need them for. At a bare minimum I would probably do 4hrs.

We want part of the bride/groom prep to be captured along with the first look, ceremony, first dance (bride/groom and father/daughter, mother/son), and speeches captured on video, so we’re booking our videographer for six hours and then they can leave during reception. They’re much more expensive than our photog, who will be with us for 8.5 hours.

View Quoted Comment They’re so expensive!! (Understandably so). The price is why we’re trying to really get our priorities lined up. We’re not doing dances/speeches so hopefully we should be able to keep it to like 2hrs? I’m now leaning towards 6ish hrs for the photographer. I’d get more use out of images anyway, I think.

We have our photographer all day and our videographer for 10 hours, I feel how someone else posted above rather have more footage than not enough and missing something funny/cool/sweet that happens

I think you should have them for as long as your budget will allow are you interested in having any getting ready photos / video?

View Quoted Comment Our budget for sure doesn’t allow for 10hrs of videography. We’re not struggling but I’m not one for sentimentals anyway, and we already have a rather small guest list and whatnot to keep costs down (trying to save for a house!). Considering a videographer at all is splurging in my opinion (for our situation), but after reading others’ responses, I at least want the ceremony recorded. I’d want photography of the getting ready part for sure, though!

I had a small wedding, so we hired the photographer for 8 hours, and the videographer for 6 hours. The photographer arrived 4.5 hours before my ceremony; the videographer arrived 2 hours before my ceremony.

I'm just having a photographer, and her package is for 10 hrs no matter what. She only has one rate.

Mine is when arrive at the location 4pm till 11 ceremony at 5. Reception at 6. Pictures at 530 to 630. My photography and videography comes with my place.