Don’t Video Your Wedding!

Wow! Pretty bold huh?  Well keep reading.

I apologize if this post is a little redundant to my last post but I feel it is important for me to write about because it just happened to me on the phone so it is about someone’s real feelings.

This is about a bride whose name I will keep anonymous but trust me, this just happened.  I do not usually write similar posts back to back.

I call a bride from a lead source I received and the conversation went like this: She first asks about packages to produce a Hilton head wedding video and I told her I have some estimated packages but What we do at Coastal Wedding Films is fully customize everything even our packages and that our packages start at $1799.  She said, oh that’s fine I can do that. (Maybe I should raise my prices again) She said, I just like to be able to look at something to make my decision.  I said I would be happy to send her an email with a description of some packages and their prices.

She then says sorry, but I am going to be blunt with you.  I said that’s fine I like honesty.  She said, I am just not going to pay that much money for a video I will watch once or twice.  I will pay for a photographer because I know I can easily pick up a picture when I want or send them out to people when I want.  I just don’t think I would want to send my wedding video to anyone.  I want to spend the majority of my money on the wedding itself so I can enjoy it.

I started to think about what she was saying and that quick I had forgetting why I do what I do.  I started to think like the masses.  I begin to say to myself, she’s right.  So that’s why people don’t put value on video.  But then I remembered last weeks post and said to myself wait a minute; this is not about paying for something that will only be watched once.

So I said to her, politely, I appreciate your honest.  Now I would like to be blunt with you.  We create a production that you will want to watch over and over.  What we do at Coastal Wedding Films is completely different than a regular wedding videographer.  We document your story.  I asked her, who are you?  What are you about?  This is your story.  Everyone has a story, whether you are getting married, having a birthday, or graduating from kindergarten.  Our Story is what defines who we are as human beings.  Every moment in our lives that we don’t document, whether it’s on paper, in a photograph, or on a video, is a little piece of us, a little memory, that fades away.  So then I began to tell her things that we would do different that would really tell and document her story.  When I was finished she said wow, that’s exciting.  I would watch that over and over.

This experience this morning on the phone could have easily had me defeated and feeling myself that video is not important.  But instead I not only reinspired myself but I now have a client who realizes the importance and the value of a wedding video, and not just any wedding video, a Hilton head wedding video from Coastal Wedding Films.