16/06/2023
The story of my wedding film🎥
My husband and I got married in 2017, a couple of years before I started filming weddings myself. We really wanted to stick to our budget, and as a lot of you may know… things start to add up real quick. Wedding films were just starting to become a lot more popular then and we liked the idea of having something to look back on the day with, we just weren’t sure if we wanted to go over budget for it.
Well, turns out we got lucky - we were one of the first couples to get married at our venue and the owners had already hired a videographer for content for their website. We were going to get a free wedding film! I was so excited, but I didn’t even think to ask how long of a film we’d get, or what events throughout the day there would be coverage of. We got a 4 minute film that only included some details, our ceremony (with hard to hear audio), and some portraits.
While I am so grateful we have this film to cherish forever, I always look back and wish we would have just spent the money to capture our entire day and find a videographer with a style we love.
Photos and video truly just become more valuable as time passes. I would have loved to clearly hear our vows, watched part of our first dance, and see more of our loved ones that were celebrating there with us. Moral of the story - make sure to budget for photo and video! And I can say that from my own experience and not just because I do this for a living now 😉