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We love great wedding videos! It is the best way to truly remember all the sights and sounds of your big day. A good wedding video not only helps you remember how things looked and sounded but also how you felt on that day. We would like to share some tips each week this month, to better help you have a great wedding film. Starting with choosing the right professional videographer. ( which may or may not be us)

Tip #1:     Top 3 rules for choosing you Videographer:

1. Their Personality

You would not invite a total jerk to your wedding, so why hire a person to film your wedding that you don’t like? Your videographer needs to be someone that you actually like and feel comfortable around. If you are not happy with the person behind the camera, your wedding video can really suffer.

2. Their Work

Next, check out their work.  Every bride has a different style, and so does every videographer.  Make sure you find someone that matches what you want in your wedding video.  When watching recent work of different videographers, pay attention to the quality of the video–the shot selection, lighting, editing, and overall professionalism–not to the song selection or the couple in the video.  Remember, the wedding video is more about emotion, and not just pretty shots.

3. Their Price

So you like the person, you like their work, now what’s their price?  Make sure your wedding video budget is accurate compared to the current pricing trends.  Producing a quality video takes hours of work, and most full time professionals charge more than minimum wage. In Utah’s current market, you can plan on spending at least $1000 for a good quality wedding video.  Most importantly, don’t wait until the last minute, when your wedding budget is so depleted that all you can afford is a $50 Craigslist slideshow.  If wedding video is a priority, reflect that in your budget.

Unfortunately, most couples have this list upside down.  They find a videographer that has a really great price first, later to find out that their work isn’t that great and they didn’t enjoy working with them.  Your wedding video experience deserves to be awesome!  Don’t settle for anything less.

Next week’s tip: Selecting music for your wedding video

We are so excited about the upcoming year! Every year we have a great opportunity to work with fabulous couples and families, and last year was no exception. For those brides looking for a great wedding video to remember their wedding day, we put together this awesome trailer to showcase what Giant Brothers can do for you or someone you know that is getting married. We travel all over Utah and the United States, specializing in LDS Temple films. Feel free to contact us if you would like a full Demo DVD, or have any questions. Thanks!

It was another cold day this past Wednesday, December 30.  My last wedding of this year and this decade, but it was a great one to end on.  Thanks so much to Camille and Aaron for letting me be part of their day.  I had a wonderful time shooting with them, and they seemed to be having a wonderful day as well.  I hope you enjoy their temple film!

It was a cold snowy day in Utah today.  By the looks of it, Ashley and Jesse couldn’t have cared less.  They were thrilled to be married, and they looked gorgeous together.  You can also check out some great photos of Ashley from her bridal session with Sally Photography.  It was great working with them.  And here’s their temple film, my first time shooting at the beautiful Oquirrh Mountain Temple.

It was a beautifully cold day when Veronica and Scott were sealed in the Salt Lake Temple.  I’ve really enjoyed working with the Romney family (this is the third wedding I’ve done with their family) and I also was delighted to work with the Iglesias family for the first time as well.  Getting married is such a special event for all involved and I feel so privileged to capture it.  Veronica and Scott chose Retrospect Studios for their photographer, and it was a lot of fun working with them.  Please leave a comment if you enjoyed the video!

Here’s another beautiful temple film at the Salt Lake Temple.  Sandy and Russ were great to work with, as was their photographer, Michelle Sallay.  I hope you enjoy their temple film!

UPDATE: Michelle Sallay their fantastic photographer just posted some great images of thier wedding on her blog check them out here

We had a lot of fun shooting this date film, it was done on Halloween at Thanksgiving Point.  Veronica and Scott are cute and crazy couple, and I hope you enjoy their fun date film!

Earlier this year, I was fortunate to work with my good photographer friend Russ Dixon on a very fun project. We worked with TwiRock (that’s Twilight Rock) band, the Mitch Hansen Band, to produce their “By You” music video for MTV.  The video will also be featured on an upcoming documentary about TwiRock.

Here it is:

To hear more of their work, you can visit their website, www.themitchhansenbandblog.com.  They will also be performing at the upcoming New Moon Experience, put on at the South Towne Expo Center on November 19 & 20.  For ticket information, click here.   Please let us know how you liked the video by leaving a comment!

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It was really wonderful to work with Kyra & Anthony.  Their ceremony took place at Memory Grove, which is always beautiful.  This is the post-ceremony fun I captured.

Today I am blessed to celebrate my 9 year wedding anniversary with my incredible wife DeAnn. I want to thank her for being an amazing best friend, mother, business partner, nurse, taxi driver, cook, hostess, video editor, trivia guru, hot date, phone book, listening ear, teacher, and about a million other things. I love you so much babe!

In my office, I have an photo of us shortly before we were married. Whenever I get discouraged, I look up at it and can’t help but smile, and I know that she supports me as her husband and as I follow my dreams as an event filmmaker

She is truly the inspiration behind everything I do, and Giant Brothers Films would be nothing without her help and support.

original photo credit:  the amazing Miyo Strong of Busath Photography 2000