Wedding Care to help me with an informal study so I can craft a pitch?

[Allison D.]

Date: 10/28/2008 2:10:34 PM
Author:TravelingGal
Ladies, I am curious about something and could use your two cents.

My understanding from reading this board is that nearly all brides would not skimp on the photographer. However, they would skip a videographer before cutting out a lot of other things.

My opinion, however, is that video from a wedding is SO wonderful to have.

So my question is this: If there was a product out there geared toward brides/grooms that could easily show you how to edit videos that people may have taken at your wedding, complete with wedding music that you can tailor to fit your video exactly how you need it and it was a sub $100 product, would you be interested in purchasing it?

Honestly, no I wouldn''t be interested in it, for a few reasons.

1. Wedding videos are one of those things that are seldom looked at much; they seem to be of intense interest immediately after the event and maybe even sporadically over the next 4-5 months. Then there may be interest in seeing it on first anniv. or maybe even the first few, but after that, it''s a dust collector.

2. When I look at my wedding photos, the photo is a frozen moment in time, but it doesn''t interfere with or replace my recollection of the sights/sounds/feelings. When I look at my photos, I relive my wedding from my own "internal video" recalling my experience of the day instead of looking at a video and feeling dismayed that this or that wasn''t just so.

3. I don''t really want to relive an entire 25-minute ceremony; at most, I''d want to just see highlights (walking down the aisle with my father, look on mother''s face, exchanging vows/rings, kiss.....). I think setting photos to music on DVDs achieves this, and it does so *better* than video. You can crop pictures to get closer shot as opposed to not being able to zoom video. (If there is now some software that allows this, I''m not aware of it, but even if it does, it doesn''t improve on what I think I can already get from a slide-show presentation with photos.)

4. Videos are just seldom flattering to anyone.

 

[pjean]

I wouldn''t buy it because I have a Mac.

 

[April20]

Having our wedding videotaped never even crossed my mind. My mom and step dad''s wedding was videotaped and I remember us watching it every year around their anniversary when I was growing up. I''m not sure why I''m not into it myself. That being said, I probably wouldn''t buy it because while my intentions would be good, the reality is we''d never get around to it. I am not a techie person when it comes to editing photos or videos but am quite enamored with those that do it well. The idea of being able to edit on your own easily is alluring- finding the time to actually do it would be the issue. That an actually being patient enough to read the directions.....

 

[mercoledi]

TGal, I''m going to suggest a probably useless (for marketing purposes) corollary to this study; How many newly married women wish they had video of their wedding?

My photographer didn''t show, so I only have informal shots of my wedding, and wouldn''t have had those if another family member hadn''t crashed the wedding. I have NO IDEA what out vows were or what it was like now, it''s all a blurr. I ment to set my camera to record the ceremony, but forgot and now wish I had done it. And then I still wouldn''t buy your software because I can use imovie, but you get the idea.

 

[Elmorton]

I love watching other friends'' videos - but we have a digital voice recording of our wedding (that was free - my dad had a personal recorder that he placed behind a floral arrangement - it was perfect) that I can sync up to a slideshow of photos, which is more than good enough for me. I don''t regret not having a video at all.

At the time though...hmmm...I might have spent $100, but the idea of editing video after the wedding seems like something I wouldn''t have wanted to do, knowing that I''d have a lot going on post-wedding as a newlywed. I dunno. I certainly think there are some people that would do it though!