[From the groom:]
At our first meeting with Dan he mentioned that of all the extras available for a wedding, hiring a videographer is typically the one that people are either happiest to have done or most regret not having done. Now that my... wife and I have our ceremony on DVD I can honestly say that we fall into the former camp. Our wedding day was hands down the best day of my life, and to have the opportunity to watch and relive it with her whenever we want is far more important to me than I would have expected. It is amazing how many little things I missed during the excitement of that day. And it's also great to be able to watch things like our first dance and my best man's speech over and over again. Dan was absolutely correct: I cannot imagine not having that night on video.
As for my experience with the Dugans, I can honestly say that they were lovely guests at our wedding. We found both of them to be exceptionally nice and pleasant people who genuinely seemed to enjoy their time at our wedding. They also seemed to enjoy the work that they were doing so much that they just sort of blended into the happy background while they recorded our big day.
The finished product was fantastic. Dan made sure to get the plan for all of the big moments at our ceremoy and he didn't miss a second of any of them. We even had a surprise or two that were important to us, and fortunately for us--since our photographer completely missed one of them--the Dugans captured them flawlessly. The finished product contains our ceremony and reception broken into chapters on the DVD so that we can easily jump to sections that we want to see. There is also loads of exta footage (like the bride getting ready, which I would have otherwise never seen) that they captured and included in a sort of "Outtakes" chapter. And the music video . . . We've been married for about a year and a half now and the music video that Dan made still puts a lump in my throat.
If you made it through all of that, please keep in mind that I could go on and on about how happy I was to have hired the Dugans as our videographers. In case you simply read the beginning and the end, let me summarize:
Dan was right. Hire a videographer.