Who is doing videography?

I’m sure that the first videographer would be willing to include some audio if that’s what you want. Have you asked?

She says all of her videos are cinematic and on her website it says no audio is included, but I could ask and see.

Depending on what you want, you may also be able to ask for the raw footage and forego the cinematic highlight reels. Since this requires minimal editing, some videographers do this at reduced cost.

I really wanted one until I started looking at vendors. I keep seeing like $2500 and they just give you a 2-5 min highlight reel😫

I would only bother with video to have our vows recorded, but that’s just me. Sure I’d like scenes from the day, but it seems pointless to me without the vows (and toast(s) if they were particularly good).

Although daughter always wanted video, it was the last thing she booked because it wasn't in the initial budget. (She got an unexpected Christmas bonus and decided to add it about 3 weeks before the wedding.) At that late date, she didn't have a ton of options, so it was the only thing she booked using Thumbtack. She searched for local videographers and found one that charged $100 per hour for two videographers and all the raw footage. She booked them for 7 hours (first look through cake cutting) and added a 6-8 minute highlight video for another $800. So, she paid about $1500, for raw video & audio of most of the wedding & reception and the highlight video. She ended up with about 6 hours of raw video, and it is very cool to see and hear everything that was going on throughout the day. For the highlight reel, they overlaid the audio track from parts of the ceremony & speeches on top of the music, and it's very sweet and well edited. Daughter and SIL, who initially thought videography was a waste of $ on top of 11 hours of coverage by their awesome photographer, are SO happy they did it. (Early in the planning process, daughter got quotes for video that were $4000 or more, so while $1500 wasn't "cheap," she thought it was pretty reasonable.) If you want it, I don't think it hurts to look for someone and see what they can do.

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I would definitely ask and see if you can get audio with the cinematic video. If not, just ask for the raw footage and see if you could get it done elsewhere. I'm getting video and I got a photo/video package that comes with:- photographer and videographer for 8 hrs- all the digital photo files with a copyright released private online gallery for 3 months- an edited 30-60 HD wedding film- unlimited coverage locations- unlimited photo/video capture - $300 print store credit coupon toward additional prints or enlargements after our wedding

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I started looking through them too but ended up going with a different company so if it doesn't work out with who you're waiting for, you can always go back and check out thumbtack.

Thumbtack is just an application for connecting with independent service providers (it's not a company...). Which service providers are available on Thumbtack will vary by geographical location. We're in So Cal and it worked for daughter, but it will be different between different locations.

I wanted to have a videographer but my fiancé thought we could skip it. I think it such a good way to look back on that day years down the road. I know we will have pictures but I thought video would be nice too. I think it will be sweet to have it and pictures to show our kids if we ever have any.

Initially I wanted to skip video to save money, but I began to rethink because it's an investment lots regret not making. I tasked FH to find a reasonably priced videographer to film only the ceremony for us, and he delivered!

Are you okay with paying that much money for a video only a few minutes long? I couldn't justify that for us, so we're requesting only the raw footage because editing hikes up costs. Just something to consider

We're doing it, but only because a coworker of mine is building up her film resume. She does a lot of indie work now, but would also like to get into wedding videography as a source of income. She offered to do it for a fraction of the price most places charge (essentially, we're covering equipment and time spent editing).

She wants to do our wedding specifically, because we're actors, and we're having a skit/swordfight.

The cinematic package without audio seems a bit unusual. The second package with the mic placement is much more typical.

We looooove our wedding videos! Our package included a ceremony edit, highlight reel and toasts. It was so nice to see the ceremony from start to finish (which you won’t see live as the bride) and hear the emotions in our vows and in the toasts. One thing that helped us decide was watching sample videos from potential videographers. If they have samples embedded within their website or on a Vimeo or YouTube channel it will give you a solid idea of their style and help you figure out what you like, need and don’t like.

We diy’d this as well.

We ordered 2 📹 (small enough to fit in my 🖐). I asked two people of different heights (one is almost 6’5”) to record for me. FH will take the two recordings and merge to create our Wedding video.