5 Reasons To Hire a Wedding Videographer to Capture Your Day

February 14, 2019 | Uncategorized

5 Reasons to Hire a Wedding Videographer to Capture Your Day

Happy Valentine’s Day!  We get asked by brides all the time “why should I hire a videographer for our wedding day”.  This is one of our favorite questions because it begins a dialogue and allows us to find out what about your wedding day is important to you and the best way for us to capture it.  A few weeks ago, we posted a blog called What To Know Before Hiring Your Wedding Videographer which discusses the different styles of wedding videography.  Due to our broadcast journalism background, our style at A Morales Production is VERY much Documentary + Meets Storyteller.  We act as a fly on the wall to capture the moments as they unfold, but also find the best way to recap the day in a compelling Love Story.  If this is a question on your mind, email me – I’d love to chat.  In the meantime, our friends at Junebug Weddings articulate some commonly found answers that convey why you should hire a wedding video in a way that’s so helpful that we have to share it (screenshots are from A Morales Production weddings).  Our favorite is #3.

So without further adieu, here’s the real deal.  You make the memories, we make them last forever

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1. You can relive the memories over and over.

Your wedding day is a once-in-a-lifetime event, but your wedding film allows that day to live on forever. While some memories are bound to fade over the years, having every moment on film is a truly priceless benefit of hiring a wedding videographer. You are going to be making so many precious memories on your wedding day, and we guarantee you won’t regret getting to relive them year after year. Anniversaries will be even more special when you get to watch your wedding film and reminisce about all the love you felt that day. Even a random Tuesday can be made a little sweeter by blocking off time to relive your beautiful day. Seriously, this is one movie you’ll never get tired of re-watching!

2. You can easily share the video with people who couldn’t make it.

As sad as it is to think about, there is a chance some family members or friends might not be able to attend your wedding due to illness, distance, or age. And, if you decide to elope, it’s likely nobody but your officiant will get to witness your special day. So, having a wedding film allows your loved ones who couldn’t make it feel like they were there and experience more emotion than they could get from just your photos. Because videographers can easily post your wedding film on YouTube or Vimeo, you can easily give everyone who wishes they could have been there a front-row seat to the best love story in town. Your videographer can even create shorter clips that you can share on social media for your extended friend group to get a peek into your day.

3. Your vows, music, and toasts cannot be photographed.

These are some of the most emotional parts of the entire day, and we guarantee you will be grateful to have the full impact of that emotion captured forever. There’s nothing like getting to hear your spouse read their vows to you in that exact moment, but getting to see and hear that moment, again and again, is a very close second. A videographer can freeze that exact moment in time, in a way that photographs would never be able to capture. The same can be said of the toasts at the reception. Your photographer will capture great stills of your and your guests’ reactions, but you’ll never get another chance to see and hear your loved ones deliver those carefully crafted jokes unless you have it captured on film. As for the music: that’s the glue that ties the entire day together. How many days of your life will have a literal soundtrack? In our opinion, that’s an opportunity too rare and too sweet not to document!

4. You’ll get to see moments you might have missed.

It’s no secret that you’re going to be busy on your wedding day and so many things will be happening at any one given time. There will be things you and your spouse will miss on your actual wedding day. But the beauty of having a wedding videographer present is that they won’t miss a thing! On your wedding day, you’ll get to focus all your attention on your spouse and soak up all the love your heart can handle. Then, when it’s all said and done, you can watch your wedding film and get to see the entire day through your guests’ eyes. You’ll get to see the moments of anticipation just before you walked down the aisle. You’ll get to see what your parents saw as they watched you promise your lives to each other. A wedding videographer is essentially another set of eyes and ears on your wedding day that will be able to capture so many more moments than you will be able to see and hear on your own.

5. You’ll be creating a family heirloom.

Your wedding film will be an invaluable heirloom that you can pass down to your children, they can pass down to their children, and on and on. The future family you might not have even thought of yet will get to see and know you on the best day of your life in a much more real and personal way than just through your wedding photos. Additionally, if you’re having a traditional wedding, you will likely have your entire family together in one place. How many times in life will that happen? Probably not many. So, having a wedding videographer document your entire family in that season of their lives is an invaluable gift you will be giving yourselves and your family that will live on indefinitely.

Since it’s Valentine’s Day and all… here’s one of our favorite Films from 2018 for you to see all of the above points put into action.

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