So overall I've been able to find fairly good deals on many of my big wedding things (Photographer, Caterer, Dress, etc), but one thing I'm having a terrible time with is finding a Videographer. Or rather, I've found tons of wonderful ones but they are thousands out of my price range.
I really feel like a videographer is important to capture the emotion of the day and to look be able to look back on and cry a little. I've seen some wonderful things done by friends with a good eye in the Hive blogs, but unfortunately I don't think I'm blessed with a friend like this (unless someone has been holding out on me!).
We're really trying to keep the wedding under 10,000 as we have no money (woo college!) and both of our parents are bit tight on cash at the moment. Is there any advice out there on how to include a videographer without breaking the budget (ie. goal is $300-500) or recommendations for the Detroit, MI area?
You can get them to just shoot the ceremony, without editting. It's the editting that costs so much money. That's probably the approach we'll take, but we haven't decided yet.
you could also try to find students who can shoot it? at least they would have the equipment. as for friends, if they have a camera and a tripod they should be okay, but a microphone is really helpful as well. videographers are definitely hard to find at an affordable price. We ended up going over our budget. but like krista said, if you can find someone who will do it without all the extra work, you might be able to get a good deal.
So overall I've been able to find fairly good deals on many of my big wedding things (Photographer, Caterer, Dress, etc), but one thing I'm having a terrible time with is finding a Videographer. Or rather, I've found tons of wonderful ones but they are thousands out of my price range.
I really feel like a videographer is important to capture the emotion of the day and to look be able to look back on and cry a little. I've seen some wonderful things done by friends with a good eye in the Hive blogs, but unfortunately I don't think I'm blessed with a friend like this (unless someone has been holding out on me!).
We're really trying to keep the wedding under 10,000 as we have no money (woo college!) and both of our parents are bit tight on cash at the moment. Is there any advice out there on how to include a videographer without breaking the budget (ie. goal is $300-500) or recommendations for the Detroit, MI area?
posted by HistoryBride 59 posts 2 months agoYou can get them to just shoot the ceremony, without editting. It's the editting that costs so much money. That's probably the approach we'll take, but we haven't decided yet.
posted by Krista 102 posts 2 months agoyou could also try to find students who can shoot it? at least they would have the equipment. as for friends, if they have a camera and a tripod they should be okay, but a microphone is really helpful as well. videographers are definitely hard to find at an affordable price. We ended up going over our budget. but like krista said, if you can find someone who will do it without all the extra work, you might be able to get a good deal.
posted by dreambml 425 posts 2 months ago