I'd like to preface by saying of course there's no right/wrong here and everyone is entitled to their own tastes and how they like things done, but I'm just curious how other brides feel about this and to see if I'm alone in my preference? Lol.
We got our wedding video back a few months ago... a 3 minute teaser, and then the full version which was 27 minutes. We LOVED the teaser... it was a cute little artisticly done, taste of the day, which is exactly what a teaser should be. But for the full length video... I kinda felt like what we were given was basically just an extended teaser, and I was really not happy with this?
Our ceremony was put in it, from start to finish. But the processional was cut short... like it just showed a 2 second clip of each person in our processional, and the background music was just some upbeat music they had found, rather than the music we actually had playing at our ceremony. Even MY aisle walk was cut short, and set to this other music. I felt like the most emotional moment of my life was kinda just butchered? So I asked for that part to be redone and (long story short) they fixed it but only partly...
And at that point I then realized there were a lot of other things I was unhappy with... but I'm not sure if those other things are actually things that most brides wouldn't like either, or if it's just not my style... basically it just cut around to various shots at the reception, shots of us outside, shots of people dancing, all to this music they had selected in the background. It was objectively well-done. But like I said before, to me, this just felt like a longer version of the teaser. I didn't feel the vibe of our day at all when I was watching it, because it was so cut up into little pieces.
At this point where I recognized that most of it was objectively a well done video but not what I wanted, I remembered I luckily had the raw footage and SUPER luckily took some film classes in college (lol) and I basically spent the entire weekend editing it myself. I put back the entire processional (so what if it's just 5 minutes of people walking... those people are my nearest and dearest and I want to see their full walks!), I put back in my brother (our officiant)'s flub during the ceremony (because it was hysterical and it's an inside joke between us now), and I put the clips from the reception just fully in there as they happened.
When we rewatched my new version, we were both teary eyed and truly felt like we had been able to relive the feelings from that day again in a way we just couldn't when it was cut out. I want our video to document our day as it happened... I want all the awkward pauses, the part where I stumbled over my speech, the shaky and slightly blurry shot of my father in law in tears coming to hug me after our ceremony (so what if it wasn't an objectively "good" shot? It was a beautiful moment!) I feel like my vision of this video was just different... I just wanted it to feel like a home movie, rather than a wedding video promo.
Again, nothing wrong with people who DO prefer it to be more cleaned-up and feel like a promo lol. I'm just curious if I'm the only one who wants my video to document the day as it was, with all its wonderful imperfections.
