3 Simple Tips to Getting a Custom Wedding Video with a DIY Budget

We’re joined today by guest blogger bride Vanessa. I’m especially excited to feature Vanessa because she took so much care in selecting her scenes in our online storyboard to create a custom wedding video.

Photography by Anne Marie Carson

Her first step in customizing her video was to have friends and family capture clips on both their iPhones and the rented Storymix HD cameras. She also used our guest uploads option to include clips that guests shot on other cameras and phones – right through their computers.

Next, she used our storyboard to direct a cinema-style multicam effect using the same scene shot at various angles on the individual phones and cameras.

Lastly, to truly add to her customization – she had us create a special Mix and Match theme – using the font from one theme, music from another, and graphics from a third.

Photography by Anne Marie Carson

Our ceremony and reception were on the riverboat “Commodore’s Pup” on Lake Austin.

Photography by Anne Marie Carson

The most important details to us to capture on video were of the unveiling…bride & groom meeting, the ceremony, important dances, and our niece singing. We didn’t think we could afford video. We were going to rely on the little bit that some family members would take. A friend recommended Storymix and we chose them because of the affordability and the notion that we could have various people with cameras catching things simultaneously or at different angles. We also loved the option to take one camera on the honeymoon.

We put captions on the most significant spots and tried to make them fun. This was especially important, as my brother had the only clip of me reading the letter from my (deceased) dad, just before the ceremony.Also tried to spread them out over the entire video.