Advantages of Videography vs. Photography
Hey guys, Anna here. Today, I want to talk about sort of a touchy subject. Videography vs. Photography. Everyone has a budget, and if yours can only fit one in, which do you choose? Read on and hopefully I can help you decide (hint: videography 
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When planning a wedding or special event, I know that photography is usually the first thing that comes to mind (for most people) when thinking about preserving the memories of that special day. After all, photography has been readily available since the turn of the century and over time has become an important part of our everyday lives. As a result of historical tradition, videography often takes a backseat to photography for most brides when they’re budgeting their wedding.
The Advancement of Videography
While photography is certainly a great investment for preserving your special day, videography has come a long way in recent years. The advent of digital video cameras, digital music and professional video editing systems that run on home computers has dramatically increased the quality of videography in the past 5- 10 years. In many ways it is now a superior means of documenting special events.
Here are some advantages of videography vs. photography
Wedding Video Music
Thirty years from now you’ll be able to hear your wedding song, the YMCA, and the other songs of the moment that you insisted the band or the DJ played at your reception.
Capturing Wedding Vows and Toasts
You can preserve the audio of you saying your wedding vows and those two important words “I do”; not to mention the speech by your parents that didn’t leave a dry eye in the house, the always hilarious best man’s toast, or a heartfelt speech by your maid of honor.
Action Shots
Photographs can’t show that walk down the aisle, the way you moved during your first dance (or the way some of your guests *attempted* to dance).
Video Captures Humor
Some of your favorite memories from your wedding will be the funny ones. While photography is great at catching an expression on someone’s face, video can often do a better job of capturing both physical comedy and verbal comedy. After all, when’s the last time you saw a comedian release a standup comedy photo album?
Why Photography?
So why is videography still an afterthought for some brides? For one, old habits die hard and wedding photos are a tradition that will likely survive for a long time to come. Secondly, photography has historically been easy to share. A bride could easily carry a wedding album to a friend’s house or to the office. The dawn of the Internet age has made it even easier to share wedding photos online.
Videography’s Future
The DVD made it much easier to transport video, but it was still not a self contained unit; you needed a DVD player and TV to get it to work. Unless a bride hosted a DVD viewing party, it was likely only a few close friends saw the completed wedding video in the past.
However, the proliferation of broadband internet connections has changed all that. Now broadband video have made it easy to share wedding videos online and let everyone re-live those special events in a community viewing experience. Now that wedding videos can be shared easily, it’s only a matter of time until they move to the forefront in wedding planning and become a critical component of wedding culture.
I hope this opened your mind somewhat to how wedding videography really can be one of the best choices that you can make for your special day.