5 Reasons Why Wedding Videography Is So Important
Your wedding day. One of the biggest days of your life. You’ve probably been dreaming about this day since you were a kid — the flowers, the cake, the rings, the celebration, most importantly, the beautiful partner you’re about to spend the rest of your life with. You can see it all in your head for months, years even, leading up to the big day…but what about afterwards?
The day you’ve dreamed of, the day you spent so many months planning for, will arrive. It will be amazing. It will be a blur. A wedding has dozens of moving pieces, all centered around marrying you and your partner, you and your partner being only two sets of eyes among many throughout the day. What about the moments that happen while you’re not looking? While you’re getting your hair and makeup done or while you’re lacing up your dress shoes? You’ve spent so long thinking about this day, you deserve to be able to re-live it in as much detail and emotion as possible as many times over as you want. How? Invest in an experienced wedding videographer.
Here at Buffalo Film Co. we talk about this a lot. Why should couples hire us? We know we bring a ton of value to our couples, but how do you put that into words? We’ve done some thinking and distilled it down to these 5 points:
There’s nothing like a well done wedding film.
Yes, photographers are out there. Yes, you should absolutely invest in an amazing photographer (we have a few names to send your way if you need them). But. There is absolutely nothing like seeing the tears roll down your mother’s face or the shaky hands of your partner as they put the ring on your finger. There’s so many little moments and motions that photos can only capture a tiny piece of.
Hear your wedding day instead of just seeing it
One of our favorite parts of the wedding day is the beautiful, and often hilarious, toasts and speeches that are poured out over the couple on their wedding day. You’ll kick yourself over and over once you realize you only have photos of the words being spoken. A proper wedding filmmaker comes with not just cameras, but pro audio equipment for any situation to capture every word from the most important people on your most important day.
Lower the FOMO
FOMO: Fear of Missing Out. That’s the feeling you get when your friends go out and you can’t make it. The feeling you get when everyone you know has seen the last episode of that popular TV show but you haven’t had time to see it — or heard of the show to begin with! Whether it’s through Facebook, Instagram, or good ol’ fashioned email, having a way to show everyone who couldn’t attend your biggest day how amazing it was is something that will be cherished and appreciated by everyone.
Re-live the biggest day of your life over and over
Think about how special your home videos are from your childhood. Your dad walking around with a big VHS camera recording you doing silly things, it seemed so meaningless then, but now they’re one of the few things that anchor your childhood memories. Time is our biggest enemy as people, she fades our memories and steals our youth. Be kind to your future, faded memory selves and invest in a wedding film to bring back every drop of emotion that runs through you on your wedding day for the rest of your life.
Regret
In the many years we here at Buffalo Film Co. have been filming weddings, we’ve never once had a couple that regretted investing in themselves on their most important day, though we do know dozens of couples who regret NOT hiring a videographer. After you get married, your relationship with your partner will be one of the most important and valuable things in your life, doesn’t the most important thing in your life deserve to be remembered, re-lived, and recorded?