Before the wedding

Wedding video questions

In this section we've answered the following questions:

• Can we choose our own music?
• Will you attend the wedding rehearsal?
• Will our church/venue allow filming?
• Do we need to provide a meal for the videographers at the reception?

Q: Can we choose our own music?

A: Yes. We ask all of the couples we film wedding videos for to tell us what their favourite music is. Doing this makes your wedding video even more personal to you. Doing this makes your wedding video even more personal to you. Forever On Film holds all necessary copyright licences to allow us to film any hymns, songs or background music throughout your wedding day. We are also permitted to use any piece of music during the editing process.

Music can be dubbed over the original soundtrack at the editing stage, or added to the natural background sound. If you have any favourite pieces of music, we will be more than happy to include them on your wedding video.

Q: Will you attend the wedding rehearsal?

A: We always like to attend your wedding rehearsal, if you are having one. This allows us to meet with the vicar, and mutually agree on the best positions for our cameras. It also ensures that we know exactly where everyone will be standing throughout the service, and in which order everything is happening. We believe that this will ultimately provide you with a better video overall, as nothing will be missed and we can ensure the best possible shots at all times.

Q: Will our church/venue allow filming?

A: We always ask that our clients ensure that their church or venue are happy for the ceremony to be filmed. However, as wedding videos are now very popular, it is becoming almost universally accepted by registrars and vicars alike.

Very rarely however, your church or venue may request that the ceremony is not filmed. On the odd occasion where this has happened previously, we have been able to set up a static, unmanned camera to film the ceremony which, whilst it doesn't provide the full coverage we would normally offer, does at least allow you to relive your vows to each other.

In the exceptionally rare event that no filming is permitted at all, we would still encourage you to have the rest of your day filmed, as these moments are just as important as the ceremony. After all, how often do you have all of your friends and family in one place at the same time!

Q: Do we need to provide a meal for the videographers at the reception?

A: Our Terms & Conditions do require that you provide the videographers with a meal. As we're sure you can appreciate it is a very long day for us - often 13 or 14 hours between us leaving home and returning in the evening. We will often be working for most of this time without breaks so a meal at some point during the day is essential.

If we didn't ask you to provide this for us we would often need to leave your wedding venue to find food elsewhere which puts us at risk of missing a vital part of your wedding day. For this reason, we ask that you provide food for us on site.

The best time for us to eat is whilst you eat your wedding breakfast, the only natural break in our filming schedule. Whilst some couples do provide us with a serving of their wedding breakfast meal, this isn't essential. A hot bar meal will be more than adequate.

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