Wedding Videography

Use foreground elements to exaggerate emotion, framing shots with wide or tele lenses, and spin around the bride and groom to elevate motion, while capturing moving hands and body gestures.

Shoot with a wide-angle lens, wider than 24mm on a full-frame sensor, keeping cemetery in frame. Use fast dolly movements and minimal pans to create epic motion in slow motion.

Learn how to make couples look natural on camera by eliciting laughs, shooting the groom from behind with foreground focus and slow motion, and building comfort through shared walking moments.

Learn to craft wedding videos through storytelling by combining wide venue shots, detail rings, emotional moments, and relationship dynamics, all guided by pre-production themes and color and style.

Manage a single camera wedding by capturing vows and toasts, with the livelier microphone for ceremony and reception audio, and quickly stage the groom in good light.

Clearly communicate with your second shooter, vendors, and clients to coordinate logistics, arrival times, gear, backups, batteries, memory cards, and continually check positioning and power during the ceremony.

Coordinate with the photographer from the meeting through the ceremony and reception by clearly communicating roles, shot timing, and positions, and align with the wedding planner to stay on schedule.

Use a longer focal length (50–110mm) to capture money shots without intruding, zoom in for close moments, and stay close to the couple behind altar or pillars in non-Catholic ceremonies.

Prepare for the wedding day with a pre-production checklist, ample rest, fuel, snacks, and water, then verify camera gear, memory cards (32 to 64 gigabytes), lenses, and laptop readiness.

Frame the gift exchange with the bride, groom, and bridal party, using multiple angles, close-ups, and wide shots to emphasize authentic emotion and tell the story.

Capture the romance with romantic story shots and cut-in shots that reflect real wedding moments, including a slow dance in locations, hands, eyes, a smooch, and pursuing and embracing sequences.

Capture the reception with wide shots of the grand entrance for energy, then switch to tight close-ups during the first dance. Film speeches and garter toss with dynamic shots.

Master the top 10 wedding videography mistakes by maintaining proper exposure, accurate white balance, steady camera work, strong composition, and motivated camera moves through controlled lighting.

Capture the emotion of the day by focusing on lighting, camera moments, and motion to make the wedding video highlight key moments and a happy bride.