Wedding Videography: A wedding is a sacred, once in a lifetime –well it should be– moment, so it should be treated like one.

In the field wedding videography, it is our job to preserve that moment. I spend time before the wedding day, mentally creating images. I come to the wedding to execute those images, but a guest decides to ruin that. They believe, at that moment, that the image they are taking on their phone is more valuable to the bride and groom than the wedding videographer they hired, me. Now I’m not saying, keep your phone in your pocket, but I am saying, keep your phone in your pocket. I know it makes no sense, but I am writing this blog to my brides and their guests.

To the guest: its not about you. How would you feel when you watch your wedding film and notice a guest stepping out in the aisle to get a shot of you coming down the aisle? That moment is now ruined. I know what some of you are thinking:

“I was only in the aisle a quick second.”

“I looked to make sure the wedding videographer was not looking before I did it.”

“She looked so beautiful, I had to get a better angle.”

My response to that is, in wedding videography, a second can seem like an eternity. That second is a moment you cannot get back. The part that bothers me the most is, you don’t do it from your seat. You have to come out of your seat to get in my way. I have had some guest who are really polite about it. They stand near me, or they ask if it is okay. I am a pretty nice guy, most of the time, I say “Sure!”. I am a team player. Wedding videography is my passion. I want to make sure I capture my couples’ wedding days perfectly, but can I do that with guests in the way? No. It is not about you.

To my brides and grooms: The solution is to HAVE AN UNPLUGGED WEDDING! We can avoid all of this with the elimination of cell phones.