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When I started planning our wedding, I never thought I would hire a wedding videographer. The wedding videos I had seen up to that point were, let’s face it, pretty darn boring. Sure, it’s great to record the day for posterity, but most wedding videos aren’t exactly something that a couple will pull off the shelf and watch very often. Most of my married friends didn’t hire a videographer for this very reason. Not only that, but videographers aren’t exactly cheap; in fact, they can be a huge expense! At the very most, I was gravitating to delegating wedding videography to a friend or family member, who would use a handheld camera–something other Bees, like Miss Piglet, have talked about doing as well.

But after becoming a Weddingbee reader, I was introduced to a totally different type of wedding “videos”. Wedding cinematography, as opposed to just traditional videography, is truly an art form. And the inspiring images from my two favorites–

StillMotion

kimmie + trevor’s highlights // toronto from StillMotion on Vimeo.

and Joe Simon

Keely & Kyle HD Highlights Montage from Joe Simon Productions on Vimeo.

–that I found on Weddingbee made me realize that I still didn’t want a wedding video–I wanted a wedding MOVIE! Something documentary style and heavily edited to create a cinematic piece so touching it gives you goosebumps–something we would want to watch over and over again!

Unfortunately, as you can imagine, hiring a wedding cinematographer isn’t cheap. Aside from paying the cinematographer(s) (or wedding filmmakers as they are sometimes called) for filming the wedding, plus the overhead cost of their fancy cameras and equipment, you are paying for an extensive editing process–a process that can take months to complete! I decided that we would go big or go home–either have a wedding movie from one of my favorite wedding filmmakers, or have a friend or family member do it. All I knew for sure was that I was not going to pay an arm and a leg for something I liked, or that was just okay. After all, we had already plunked down a substantial sum to hire a talented photography team, who skillfully document every aspect of the weddings they cover.

Having a wedding film isn’t on the top of everyone’s list. Where does it fall amongst your wedding priorities? If your fairy godmother appeared and offered you the choice of:

1. A wedding meal catered by Emeril/Wolfgang Puck/(insert celebrity chef name here), or
2. A wedding film like the ones posted above

Which one would you choose?