When it comes to remembering your wedding day, photos are an obvious choice for framing, sending to friends and family, passing down to your kids. But when it comes to truly reliving your big day—the feels, the atmosphere, all of it—a video reigns supreme. Not only will a good wedding video allow you to go back in time and plant your feet back on that gorgeous white aisle runner you spent so much time picking out, but you’ll also be able to re-watch those moving, important speeches to your heart’s content. “Seeing a photo of your parents giving their welcome speech at your wedding captured and frozen in time forever is one thing,” says Alex Clayton of Clayton Film Co., “But having the ability to play back the way their voice trembled as they spoke and see the tear roll down their cheek in real time is a whole different level.”
In fact, picking a wedding videographer, the best wedding videographer for you, is just as important as picking any other vendor—if not more, since the videographer will document each and every other vendor’s work—and should be treated with equal care. Your videographer, after all, will be responsible for capturing the energy of the day in a wedding video, which is only becoming more and more important, with couples looking to share the magic of their big day on social media, and, even more recently in real-time, live-streaming the event for family and friends who aren’t able to attend (due to a pandemic or any other reason). So, where to begin the search for this most essential wedding videographer? Read on for our best advice on how to get those memories made, the right way.