No, you will not. Your wedding day will fly by in the blink of an eye. Hiring a videographer will help you preserve those memories for a lifetime.
Most believe that hiring a photographer does just that, and while a photographer is also super important, photos just don't capture the same range of emotions and memories that video does.
Video captures the sound of your private vows, your fiance's sobs as you walk down the aisle, and those little celebrations that you and your fiance have after you've left the altar after your ceremony.
Not only do you get your own emotions captured as a couple, but you get to see the joy and love felt by your friends and family preserved for a lifetime.
Here are a couple of examples of how I've seen videography prove completely worth it for my clients:
My first wedding clients were my parents. Their wedding was recorded on a camcorder by a family friend in 1993. They held onto those tapes for 30 years before my mom finally decided to digitize them so that they could watch their wedding video easily. She sent me the digitized videos, and I took everything and edited together a cute little highlight video that included photos from the last 30 years that they've spent together along with their two kids. Now, 30 years later, my parents still watch their wedding video every once in a while. Not only that, but I got to watch my own parents' wedding and felt like I was there for every moment of it. It was special both for my parents and for their kids. Here is that highlight video:
Last September, I stepped in to shoot a wedding for an indigenous bride whose photographer who had promised to bring two photographers and a videographer, but all of them were "sick" at the very last minute. I was hired for photography along with a second shooter who was a friend of the groom. I didn't know until I got to the venue that they were supposed to have a videographer, so I did my best to provide both photography and videography for their big day. All that to say that the officiant, the bride's brother, spoke their native language for a large part of their ceremony. I included their language in their highlight video and they were thrilled. They are now able to watch their wedding video and listen to the bride's brother marry them in a language that is so near and dear to their hearts.
Not only do videographers provide memories, but they also provide quality. My personal set-up for a ceremony includes one static camera that doesn't move, one floating camera on a gimbal so that I can get all the good angles and reactions, and a solid set of wireless microphones so that I can record high-quality audio. The quality provided by this set-up just isn't something that you can capture with a cell phone or even asking a family friend to record with their camera. Plus, you want that family friend to enjoy your wedding!
Your wedding video will not be something you watch once and then forget about. A lot of couples are worried that they will hire a videographer and regret it because they'll never watch their video and it will be a waste of money. I GUARANTEE that that will not be the case. You get what you pay for, and what you pay for are high-quality memories of one of the most important days of your life. You won't regret hiring a videographer.
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