14 Reasons to Hire a Wedding Videographer
Among all the things to budget for and remember, hiring a wedding videographer is not the first thing on your mind. Understandable. You want gorgeous wedding photographs to capture your day. But, before you discard wedding videography as wholly unnecessary, first consider the argument for why it is essential for your special day, and then decide.
There’s usually one argument against hiring a videographer: the budget. But there are at least four reasons to consider hiring one.
Reclaim Your Wedding Budget
Your wedding budget and vision for the day is dedicated to one thing: making the day a fairytale experience. In other fairy tales, the video brings the pictures in the children’s book to life. Hiring a wedding videographer allows you to achieve the same. Think of your wedding photographer as the author of your favourite childhood fairytale. The book itself is enchanting, but while the book is memorable, it’s the movie you play on repeat and have movie nights watching. The same is true for wedding videography. It makes the budget — regardless of the amount — worthwhile. Because, now you can share the day’s inimitable experiences with friends, family, and future children, in a way you can’t with a picture.
Relive The Moments You Missed
If a picture is worth one thousand words, a video is worth a novel, relaying a complete story of what happened on the day, not just with the bride and groom, but also among the family and friends that shared in that special occasion.
Your wedding videographer is responsible for capturing the intense moments that happen beyond your perspective. When you watch the video, you get to relive every aspect of your wedding: the emotion of your guests brought to life through audio and visuals and the events that happen outside of your peripheral vision to relive — events you may have missed.
The videographer will also capture the most significant moments for you as the couple with sound and movement. These moments may feel surreal in the moment, but with video, you can reminisce in vivid detail.
Amplify Visuals From the Event with Movement and Audio
Wedding videography doesn’t replace photography, it enhances it. Instead of verbally relaying what was happening when a picture was taken a video enables you to watch and enjoy every moment.
Avoid Regrets Later
Having professional video footage of your special day ensures the finer details — that are challenging to capture on photographs — are captured as they happen. These are the moments that can never be recreated or reimagine in future. It’s also these moments that you will regret not capturing years later.
If you’re doubtful because of the cost of wedding videography — think of it like this: you are spending thousands on making one day special, why wouldn’t you want to capture everything from that day? Not posed, but the raw emotion, feeling, atmosphere that you will never be able to capture again.
The final product from your wedding videographer — a stylized piece of art that brings the events to life — turns a fairytale day into a cinematic experience.
For all these reasons you should get a wedding videographer. The money you think you’re saving by opting out of the expense means you never get to enjoy your wedding again.
Think about it: you spend months planning and thousands of Rands on the event, inviting your closest friends and family and then in a few short hours, the day is over — and with it, the memories. Bring back those memories with the help of a wedding videographer.
