How do I choose a videographer for my wedding? The best first step is to ask friends and family for recommendations because if you can find somebody that a friend or family member was very happy with that can limit your search and save you a lot of time and money.
The best first step is to ask friends and family for recommendations because if you can find somebody that a friend or family member was very happy with that can limit your search and save you a lot of time and money. This is the kind of business where word of mouth is the best advertising, but it's also the best way that a bride and groom can make a choice for vendors. You can also look in local directories as well as online for videographers. If you don't live in an area where there are a lot of videographers you can look in closest city and those videographers will give you an idea of the distance they are willing to travel. Many of them offer a certain package that includes travel or they may just charge you an extra hourly rate including the travel. There are also plenty of websites where people have message boards and forums where they talk about different wedding vendors and their experiences with them.
Once you find a videographer you will want to interview them and check out their websites. Any good videographer will usually have a website that will display their packages, pricing, biography, and samples of their work. You can check out mine as an example - www.cedronevideo.com.
You can get a feel for the videographer's style by watching their sample videos. Some videographers do a lot of creative work within the editing, adding a lot of transitions and effects and colors and sound effects. Other videographers have a more documentary style where is simpler and truer to the moment of the day. They don't use many effects and transitions and things like that. It comes down to personal preference and hopefully you can find a videographer that shoots and edits in a style that's most appealing to you or can give you options.
One thing to be aware of is that most Internet video is usually compresses. So the quality that you are going to view a sample on the Internet is going to be drastically different from the DVD quality. So if you are viewing samples on a videographers' website, you can keep that in mind. Is the quick way to make a judgment, but what you really want to do is view their sample DVD.
