Congratulations the big day is approaching, you've purchased the dress, chosen the tuxes, hired the hall, now you face a decision, your church has offered to videotape your wedding ceremony for you. But you also want the reception documented on video and they don't do that and many of the quality videographers you've contacted want to do the ceremony and the reception or neither. What do you do?

Video is an art form that captures the actions, motions and words that will never happen again.

Let's look at the church setup. The majority of the time the cameras are mounted high on the walls or far back on a balcony with an ariel view of the proceedings. Even when zoomed is such that you are mostly seeing the top of your head, with eyes in shadow and facial features blocked. Being mounted on walls or far in the back on a small balcony, these cameras can't be adjusted to get just the right shot, the shot is static and fixed and if you turn the right way they may miss everything important… The look in the grooms eyes as he smiles and places the ring on your finger. The tears of happiness that fall from your eyes as the most important day in your life, up until now, happens.

The church camera operator tends to be a member of the church who has volunteered for the duty. Maybe he is a video hobbyist, but seldom is trained in the intricacies of full video production. He has learned the way to operate the mixing board and if possible remote control the cameras, but that is usually all.

Most of all though, the church will not document anything but your wedding ceremony in the mail hall and that is all! Your wedding day is so much more than just the ceremony, what happens before and after are memories that are just as important to you and your family as what happens during the ceremony! Being that the cameras are mounted in place the church will camera operator will not be at the door waiting for your arrival to prepare for the ceremony. They will not be there as you the bride are presented to your father for the first time in your wedding gown as tears of joy stream down his face. The cameras will not be with the groom as he nervously plucks at his tux, jokes with his friends and prepares for this momentous time.

As your brides maids line up for the processional into the sanctuary, will the cameras be there as you father takes your hand in his and whispers soothing words into your ear as you nervously take deep breaths. Will they be there to capture your father telling you how beautiful you are just before the doors swing wide to beckon you down the aisle.

After the ceremony will the church camera man be there to capture your second embrace of marriage and the words you say to each other as you reach the end of the aisle, now man and wife, and the hugs and congratulations of your bridal party and parents that are outside of the sanctuary? Then it's your departure as everyone who attended stands around the exit of the church and the two of you exit to the cheers and applause of your friends of family and enter the limousine or carriage that is there to whisk you away to start your new life. Will the church capture the kiss you share and the waves thru the windows as you drive away... Or will these precious memories be lost because the only thing the church does is record just the ceremony from statically placed cameras that are fed to a single videotape.

There is so much more to your time at the church than just your ceremony, there is the tears, the nervousness, the words of encouragement all the little things that lead up to and away from those moments in the church's sanctuary… A professional videographer, trained in his art will capture those moments for you, document the memories, preserve the words create a treasured piece of art that you will always cherish.