Any ideas for song selections for our daughter’s wedding video?
We need to pick songs for the following:
1. for the bride and groom and bridal party section
2. intro to the reception
3. intro to the ceremony
4. cake cutting and sweet table.
For the bride, groom and bridal party:
At Last – Etta James
Valentine – Martina McBride
From This Moment – Shania Twain
All You Need is Love – Beatles
Introduction to the reception:
Walking on Sunshine – Katrina and the Waves
Celebration – Kool & The Gang
Beautiful Day – U2
Everlasting Love – Gloria Estefan
You’re The One That I want – Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta
Love Rollercoaster – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Introduction to the ceremony:
Only Time – Enya
Come Away With Me – Norah Jones
Crazy – Patsy Cline
Faithfully – Journey
Can’t Help Falling in Love – Elvis Presely
Cake Cutting/Sweet Table:
How Sweet It Is – James Taylor
Love & Marriage – Frank Sinatra
Sugar, Sugar – The Archies
Pour Some Sugar on Me – Def Leppard
Hope this helps! Good luck!
How much does a wedding video editor earn a week or per wedding?
Usually the videographer is the one who edits his own work. Rarely would one hire someone else to do it.
Wedding prices all depend on the area, the quality, the experience, the clientele. I mean photographer to the stars makes far more than Glamor Shots. Free lance Photographer with 12 covers of Life magazine will make more than the one that hasn’t had anything published.
It also depends on how many videos you can do per week.
In my area of NC, a videographer charges roughly 600-1200 to do a wedding. Of course part of that is his travel, his day of work, his camera and supplies, and his reputation. Then the editor would probably get a contract based on the number of hours it would take to finish the job. I’d say $100-300 a wedding would be about it.
Like I said it’s a struggling market as most do their own. Now you might consider doing it for people who filmed their own. That’s what I did. I set up multiple camcorders then found someone after the fact to turn it into a wedding video. That was about $300.
What is the best way to shoot a wedding video?
Since the others have been great help… let me try to provide a good answer.
If you are hired as the professional wedding videographer (i feel sorry because you should know this info by now… shame), be sure to have at least two cameras.
One should be at least close to a professional grade digital camera and the other something small that an assistant can easily move around with.
First, set up your camera in the back of the church (if there is a balcony, that’s the way to go). Place it on the bride and groom and just let it run throughout the ceremony (on a tripod). While that’s recording, the assistant should be sitting about halfway up the aisles recording the bride and groom from there. Doing some pans across the wedding party, close ups of faces, close up of guest speakers / singers, getting the rings, first kiss, all that important stuff. Once they are pronoucned husband and wife, the assistant moves to the back of the church to get them coming down the aisle, you unhook the camera at the top and come down to get the receiving line, bubbles, rice, doves or whatever they are doing.
Once that footage is shot, head on over to the reception area to video guests mingling. The bride and groom will be there in about 30 – 35mins (if the photographer is any good).
You video them being announced by the DJ whiel the assistant is getting the overall reaction of the crowd, and gets the wedding party members as they are being seated once they come in.
Then be sure to video the first dance, wedding party dance, cake cutting, mother/son, father/daughter, garter/bouquet, generations dance, and just fun images of the bride and groom laughing, mingling with guests (especially grandparents), etc.
Buy some books on the subject. If the bride and groom are paying you for this, be professional and take some formal knowledge to the table. The list below has some good books for you to check out
How much would you pay for your wedding video?
In Los Angeles, CA?
I would be willing to pay $300 – $400 for a video of my wedding ceremony.
But since that isn’t the going rates anywhere, I am not having a video done.
What are some good romantic songs I can put in my wedding video?
I am making a video for my wife, which includes our scenes from our wedding a year ago. I made her a video in the past, and used several songs: "100 Years" by Five for Fighting, "Somewhere over the Rainbow" by Israel Kamakawiwo, "When God Made You" by NewSong, and "Better Together" by Jack Johnson.
Keeping those songs in mind, do you have any other suggestions for some good romantic songs that would go well in the next video I am making for her? Please help!
I am mainly looking for songs with words, but if there is some good instrumental you recommend, please let me know!
ok…you have to listen to the song i have on my myspace…it is soooo awesome!!! its by a group called stephen speaks….
myspace.com/jnjleavelle
you dont need to leave a comment or anything, but listen to the song…listen to every word….I can almost bet it speaks what you feel..without even realizing it…
What are the good songs to play as background music on a wedding video?
Trying to make wedding vidoe for a cousin and looking for suggestions for decent background music for parts like entrance etc.any suggestions?
here are some love songs: (You can come up with the actual ‘dance’ songs’) 
All My Life – K-Ci and JoJo
Angel Of Mine – Monica
Bless the Broken Road – Rascal Flatts
Don’t wanna Miss a thing – Aerosmith
Everytime I close my eyes – babyface
Forevermore – Side A (Filipino Band)
Will I Ever – Side A (Filipino Band)
Forever – KAI
I’ll be – Edwin McCain (First Dance Song)
I knew i loved you – savage garden
count on me – whitney houseton
i swear – all for one
iris – goo goo dolls
Kiss me – sixpence none the richer
love this way – eden’s crush
missing you – tyler hilton
miss you more -bbmak
more than anyone – gavin degraw
more than words
my love – justin timberlake
never let you down – frankie j
on bended knee – boyz II men
this i swear – nick lachey
we belong together – mariah carey
we belong together – gavin degraw
we ride – rihanna
when you’re looking like that – westlife
wonderwall – oasis
you and me – lifehouse
i wanna know – JOE
MAMA – Brian McKnight (for Groom and Mother Dance)
The following list I retrieved from "Moon Lite Occassions" — This is his list.:
Can You Feel the Love Tonight" (Elton John)
. "Daddy’s Little Girl" (Al Martino)
. "Daddy’s Hands" (Holly Dunn)
. "If I Could" (Ray Charles)
. "Isn’t She Lovely" (Stevie Wonder)
. "Lean on Me" (Bill Withers)
. "Lullaby" (Billy Joel)
. "My Funny Valentine" (Carly Simon)
. "My Girl" (The Temptations)
. "She’s Leaving Home" (The Beatles)
. "Sunrise, Sunset" (from Fiddler on the Roof)
. "Thank Heaven For Little Girls" (Merle Haggard)
. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Frank Sinatra)
. "Times Of Your Life" (Paul Anka)
. "Turn Around" (Harry Belafonte)
. "You Are So Beautiful To Me" (Joe Cocker)
. "Whenever I See Your Smiling Face" (James Taylor)
What instrumental indie love song can we use for my brother’s wedding video?
My dad made it with a fairy tale theme, which is a little overdone (I suspect) for a young, hip bride and groom.
Any ideas? it needs to be instrumental. We think an indie lovesong would be nice, but it’s hard to find an instrumental version and one that will sort of flow with the whole fairy tale theme.
sea of love by the cat power try to find it in instrumental they probaly have it
Is it good idea or possible to record wedding video on HD?
if it is,
1, what sort of computer (capacity and speed wise) do i need. 2, which editing softwear is good fot hd?
3, is there difference bettween videos recorded in digital DV and on HD?
HD is a great format. However, I suspect you are actually talking about HDV or ACHDV. These are not a true HD format but a consumer grade format with a high compression ratio. The images from these cameras look great as long as motion is limited. It would probably be fine for a wedding ceremony. The images would be spectacular. However you would probably have trouble in the wedding reception. The halls tend to turn the lights low and the audience dances alot so you would probably get alot of digital artifacts. Most HDV cameras can record straight DV as well so you might try recording the ceremony in HDV and the reception in DV. (DV does not have as much detail as HDV but it does not have the long compression scheme of HDV so there would be less digital artifacting in the image.)
As far as software, Sony Vegas is good for HDV and ACHDV. Premiere elements is an amazing program that I believe can handle HDV but I am not sure about ACHDV. And on the Mac I-movie HD does HDV but I am not sure on ACHDV (ACHDV is the hard drive camera formats.)
I hope that helps,
Tony Noon
Noon productions
It is hard to hear our vows over the roar of the waterfall behind us in our wedding video. How do i edit it?
I downloaded a 30 day trial of Vegas Movie Studio Platinum 9.0 thinking that might help, but I think I’m in over my head. I would just like to isolate, remove (or lower) the audio for the waterfall, or isolate and increase the audio for our voices. Any ideas? Any professional services that anyone offers?
You won’t be able to do it with the trial version. You’ll need the full version which may run you upwards of $475.
are there any pros out there that would know how much I should charge for a basic wedding video?
are there any pros out there that would know how much I should charge for a basic wedding video?
Hey!
I didn’t ask this question!
I think my brother did!
Thanks anyway.
http://www.spotlightfilms.net/
This is my friend’s business. He started at the age of 15 (yes, 15) and does everything in HD recording and extremely high quality. He gets SO many requests per year he books over a year in advance.
So make your product excellent and your prices about like his and you will do spectacular!
He charges 829 for 6 hours of live video, editing, and a few consultations before the event with the couple to get a feel for what they desire.
Now he has branched out from wedding videos and does corporate videos for resorts. He vacations free in the Caribbean all summer (spends each week at a different place) in exchange for a video he captures and makes for the resort. That’s also something to think about once you have some experience under your belt!