Let’s watch our first dance … oh, that’s right, we can’t

By Alan Berg

Note: I had the pleasure of hearing Alan speak at the LIVA (Long Island Videographer's Assosiation) meeting last Tuesday night. He is an excellent speaker and he really understands the marketing and sales challenges facing Event Videographers today. If you are an Event Videographer, I recommend you head over to his website and check out his books and DVDs. I really think they can help you grow your business. This excellent article highlights why it is so important to hire a Videographer for your wedding.

Hiring a videographer is more important than you think

I was recently helping my parents clean out their house when I came across a box of old 8mm movie reels. Most of them were shot with the family movie camera when my sister and I were kids. One of them was larger and in a nice, plastic case, not a metal canister. I couldn’t remember seeing it before and was curious about what could be on it.

So, I dug out the movie projector (that’s what we had before DVD players and VCRs), blew the dust off and fired it up. I couldn’t believe what I was watching. The images were of my parents’ wedding in 1954, but they didn’t look like the home­made images of my youth, they looked better. I was speechless as I watched the silent images of their ceremony and reception.

There stood my parents, happy and youthful, sharing their wedding day with friends and relatives, many of whom were no longer with us. I saw their first dance. I saw my grandparents, who were probably my age now. I saw my great-grandparents, who were probably the age my parents are now.

I asked my mother about the film and she said that they had hired a professional for the wedding. While that’s commonplace now, I’m sure it was very progressive in 1954. read more...