Top Tips For Hiring Your Wedding Videographer
When planning your wedding, there’s a lot that goes into it. One of the most important parts of the wedding planning process is hiring the right wedding videographer to document these once in a lifetime moments. Their job is to capture your memories so they can live on for a lifetime. When choosing your videographer, you want to look for a few specific things.
Find A Videographer with a style you love
Each videographer has their own way of capturing weddings. The main thing that matters is whether you enjoy watching and re-watching what they create. Do you find yourself watching wedding videos wishing that wedding was your wedding? Do you look at a videographer’s portfolio and think, Even if one of these wedding videos is all I had to remember my wedding, I’d be so happy. Do you stalk their Instagram and love every post because their work is so good? Congrats, you’ve found a style you love!
Regardless of style, a videographer is supposed to make you feel like you were at the wedding. We are storytellers and have the enormous responsibility of capturing and re-telling moments in a way that shows the emotions felt that day and what is was like to be there.
*EXCEPTION* A skilled videographer can tailor their videos to each couple’s preference and personal style. Watch a few of their wedding videos more than once of their wedding videos to get a good idea for the style they gravitate towards.
Check Their Portfolio and REviews
As soon as you’ve narrowed down your wedding videographer short list, do your research. Now that we have the internet, reviews are easily accessible. Most videographers have reviews on their website from real clients. You can also check to see if they have been reviewed on popular review sites such as Google, Yelp, Wedding Wire, The Knot.
Also review the videographer’s website, portfolio and blogs to get a better idea of their work. All of this will tell you a lot about a videographer’s personality and sensibility and if they shoot the moments that are most important to you. Familiarize yourself with their work to make sure it aligns with the vision you have for your wedding video. If you love everything on their website, chances are, you will love your wedding video even more, because it’s your story.
Ask them about their process
The experience you get with your wedding videographer is just as important as the videos they deliver. Do they make themselves available to answer your questions leading up to the wedding day? What would working with them on your wedding day be like? How flexible is the videographer with their art form? Do clients have a say in what kind of music will be used in their wedding video? Do they accept revisions so the final wedding video ends up being what you really want?
Find Out what Exactly is included in their packages
Not all wedding videographers include the same things, so it’s helpful to decide what’s important to you. Are you wanting a videographer who just hands you the raw footage and sends you on your way? Or would you prefer receiving a highly artistic, custom wedding film that reflects your personalities? Is having two videographers to capture more moments important to you? How much coverage do you need (most offer either hourly or full day coverage)? Make sure you understand what your videographer offers, and what is delivered after the wedding day.
Personality matters
We believe finding someone who you can have a drink or cup of coffee with is a major factor in hiring your wedding videographer! Wedding videographers are some of the people that you will probably spend the most time with on your wedding day. We are usually with you from your pre-wedding jitters to the very end when you’re dancing the night away. This is why personality is so important when you meet with potential videographers. Will they fit in at my wedding? Will I enjoy being around them on my wedding day? How will they interact with my guests? This is someone who you are likely going to be investing a chunk of your wedding budget in; someone who you will be trusting to capture your wedding day.
To get amazing videos you need to be really comfortable with your videographer. They should be excited about your wedding vision and open to your suggestions. It’s so important to bond with the person shadowing your every move on your wedding day, so find someone you think is a good personality fit for your wedding.