FAQ

We like to visualize you in thirty years or so, sitting by a fire with your grandchildren, watching your wedding video together. We describe our approach wedding videography as being “Story-Driven,” weaving together words and beautiful moving images. We want you to be proud to share your wedding film with friends, family, and even total strangers.

For our wedding films and feature films, we must use licensed music for which we pay a fee. Ceremony and Reception videos use live sound, including the music played by your band or DJ. When we license music, we make use of services like Musicbed, which has an excellent, high-quality selection. Your input is important, so we ask about your music taste in the pre-wedding questionnaire.

Our goal is always to do what’s right for you, and we know that’s true of other vendors as well. We love working with photographers, and respect their time and needs. If we haven’t worked with your photographer before, we’ll reach out in advance to introduce ourselves and work out a plan for the day. To capture high quality wedding videography, we know it’s critical that we go the extra mile and collaborate effectively with your photographer.

Our first priority is creating a quality wedding film, and that takes time. You’ll normally receive your video within 3 months. For fall weddings at the end of a busy season it might take a little longer. We can usually accommodate requests for earlier delivery if you need your video sooner, such as for a family gathering or reception. Editing is the most time-consuming part of videography for weddings, and we also have to factor in office cat interruptions.

Audio is at least as important as video. Some would argue it’s even more important. Without good sound, you won’t have a good film. We place small, discrete lav mics on the groom, the bride, and the officiant. It’s important to have redundancy, so we also take a feed from the sound system. At receptions, we take a feed and place a small mic on the podium to capture speeches.

In our approach to wedding videography, we use ate least two cameras, and have backups on hand. Our preference is cameras that provide gorgeous, cinematic imagery while still allowing us to work discretely. Thankfully the days of the big shoulder-mounted TV news-style cameras with a bright light on top are a thing of the past (at least for weddings.)

We understand how important it is to protect footage from a once-in-a-lifetime event. The first thing we do after the wedding is make two local copies of all video and audio files. We also backup everything remotely online. This ensures there is an off-site copy to protect against theft or fire. We keep all source footage for a minimum of one year after delivering your final, edited wedding videos.

Yes, adding cinematic drone footage is an available add-on, location (and weather) permitting. We love making use of it whenever we can. We have a few drones, are fully licensed with Transport Canada, and can capture some amazing footage. We film quite a few weddings in Banff National Park, where their use is strictly prohibited, but there are mountain locations outside the park where we can legally fly.

We cover every wedding with two videographers. This allows for comprehensive coverage from multiple angles, helping ensure we don’t miss anything important. We film as unobtrusively as possible in order to preserve your guest experience.

It depends on the coverage you want, but usually yes. We like a balanced story, so we make sure to film both bride and groom. One videographer will often begin with the groom and spend 30 minutes or so with him, then go and spend roughly an hour with the bride. We go over how this works in more detail in our pre-wedding Zoom call or meeting.

Since we began working in wedding videography, we’ve offered bride and groom interviews as an optional add-on. These conversations add more storytelling and emotion to your film, particularly if you aren’t writing your own vows. We ask you to set aside about 10 minutes during the “getting ready” time. On your wedding day, we find a quiet place and have a friendly conversation. We don’t use all of it, just selections, integrating them into your wedding film.

Yes we can. Not everybody can make it to your wedding, so livestreaming is available as an add-on service. It requires good internet connectivity at your ceremony location, either by cellular signal, wi-fi, or ethernet. We can also do a simulated livestream if there is no internet connection, uploading the video once we get to a location where we can connect. Livestream recordings remain online and available for viewing and download for 1 year after the wedding.

We strive to be minimalist and avoid bringing along an entire TV studio. For most weddings we bring 4 video cameras, mics, a few compact tripods, a drone, and a few small, controllable lights with stands for the reception. Everything runs off batteries so we won’t creating tripping hazards for your guests.

While we primarily offer wedding videography in Calgary, we often film weddings in Canmore and Banff, as well as other locations in B.C. and Alberta. We’ve also filmed weddings at locations further afield, such as Cape Breton and San Francisco. Contact us for a custom quote