A Groom's Guide to Wedding Videography
More often than not our inquiry interactions are with brides. Stereotypically, brides are seen to take the lead on wedding planning and we see this to be generally true when it comes to sourcing a videographer. For the majority of our brides, videography is an exciting prospect, but many of our grooms don’t feel the same way.
Here is a quick post, written by Jordan, to put all our prospective grooms at ease when it comes to hiring a wedding videographer.
#1. LET’S TALK BUDGET
I’m a saver. Lauren is a spender. I’m not sure if it’s learned behaviour or if it is inherent in our natures, but it’s just the way it is. When it came to planning our wedding I was always looking to cut costs, while her expenditure list was continually increasing. After numerous conflicts regarding money, we established a budget setting rule. We decided that we would allocate increased budget room to any product or service that would capture memories of our wedding day that we could look back on. We agreed that when we look back at our wedding in ten years from now, we wanted to be I'll be looking through the lens of a photographer and videographer who cared enough about our day to capture treasured memories.
#2. THIS AIN’T YO MOMMA’S WEDDING VIDEO
The products we create as videographers today are radically different that what they were 30, 20 or even 10 years ago. The most notable evolution is technology, leading to increased audio and video quality. Not to mention that styles are dramatically different. Today we produce content that is cinematic and engaging while accurately reflecting the couple.
#3. IT’S NOT AWKWARD
Many people, grooms in particular, fear the idea of being awkwardly staged or being told to do things that are completely unnatural. Our job is to capture the events and emotions you felt on your wedding day. We’re not here to manufacture emotion, we’re here to illicit it. We won’t be asking you to do weird things that you wouldn’t normally do. In fact, our number one “pose” that we ask our couples to do is to simply make out. We’d much rather capture you doing things that you normally do, rather than forcing cheesy smiles and fake affection.
If you need someone to talk you out of your wedding videography fears, hit me up and we can grab a beer to talk it though. It ain’t that bad and the memories will be totally worth it.