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Tips for a special wedding video

• search for the perfect soundtrack
• incorporate a 'story of us' segment
• add a blooper reel

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Secrets to personalising the wedding video

Danielle Meloney

18 May 2011

It’s quite possible that the wedding video from your big day will be your favourite movie of all time. It documents the happiest day of your life, so it’s perfectly natural for a bride to be adamant that the wedding video be completely flawless. Making the wedding video more fun and personal will ensure it truly reflects the day. It will also give you a chance to be creative. Here are some wedding video ideas that will make certain the wedding video pays homage to your special day.

First, the perfect wedding video songs will set the right mood for the wedding video.

The right music will set the mood of the wedding video perfectly. In addition to choosing songs that will be played during the ceremony, you will need music to be played during the opening menu of the wedding DVD and for the closing credits. You may decide to choose the same music that you walked down the aisle to for the wedding video, or you may decide to go with some soft classical music. The important thing is to talk it over with you partner so you incorporate both of your music tastes and thereby ensure the wedding video songs reflect both of you.

Make sure there is plenty of “before” footage in the wedding video.

Ask your videographer to arrive at the house where you are getting ready so he can capture those special moments leading up to the wedding. You will have plenty of footage of any funny blunders that you will be able to laugh at later, as well as plenty of loving family moments in the wedding video.

Make certain to get plenty of footage of the guests for the wedding video.

Make sure your videographer is not only filming the ceremony, but the guests as well. Ask him to pan across and capture the faces of guests, so when you and your hubby are watching the wedding video on your 50th anniversary you will be able to relive the laughter and the tears that all your guests experienced at the ceremony and the reception.

Add some of your history into the wedding video.

Include baby pictures and pictures of you and your partner growing up at the beginning of the wedding video. You may also want to add pictures of you and your partner from significant moments in your relationship, such as when you first met, your first date and your one-year anniversary. This will show how the two of you have grown up and are now entering the next stage of your life together.

Add a blooper reel to the wedding video.

Discuss with your videographer before the day the possibility of adding a blooper reel to the wedding video. This will capture any funny moments that didn’t make the cut (and any moments that you don’t want sent to people) and you and your hubby can have a great laugh while watching.

If you use these handy wedding video ideas, you will find that the wedding video is fun, personal, one of a kind and something that you and your husband will love watching over and over again.