Weddings are a once-in-a-lifetime event. Each wedding ceremony is unique and special to all who participate. While tradition says that photographs are the best way to memorialize that special day, many people are now finding that videography can offer a wonderful complement to the traditional photography.

The term videography is tossed around quite a bit, but not many people understand what it entails. While it may be fine for a family member to film bits and pieces of your wedding day, the finished product is often a choppy sequence of events, with poor sound. The camera operator have a nice camera, but if they have never filmed a wedding, they probably won't get much more than the ceremony. At the reception, they tend to want to stop filming so they can enjoy their friends and family.

I like to describe videography as the telling of the day’s story. What started out as a bunch of random images is seamed together with music and creative editing to create a true keepsake that makes a wonderful adjunct to the pictures shot by the professional photographer. Images of the bride and groom preparing for the event, children dancing around in their fineries, the brides mother pinning a boutonnière on her father, all in slow motion and set to a soundtrack as chosen by the couple - this is videography.

Since most of the work of producing a wedding video comes after-the-fact, prices here are based on the amount of post-production time necessary to produce the finished product.