A videographer was the last wedding vendor that I researched, because at first I thought I would be fine with just having a photographer for my wedding. But after further consideration, I realized how invaluable it would be to actually be able to re-live my wedding day by hearing the sounds of it on a video, and so began my search for a videographer. I actually met with a few different videographers, but was not all that impressed with their work from what I had seen on their website. We were looking for someone who would provide us with an edited video, but who would not cut out important things and just set the entire video to music selections. We wanted to actually hear the song playing for our first dance, and the voices of our MOH and Best Man delivering their toasts, and not have the entire video set to music. And so my search for this landed me upon Matt Buerhaus. We emailed back and forth a few times and then set up an initial consultation. Right from the start, I could tell that videography was a true passion of Matt's. We decided to book him as our vendor about a week later, after the holidays. In the time that had elapsed from my initial contact with Matt to when we officially booked him, I noted that his package prices changed on his website. He had been having a fall sale when I first researched his company, but the sale was no longer in effect. I inquired about this, and Matt very willingly honored the sale price for us, which I thought was very professional of him. We didn't need to speak with Matt much until closer to the actual wedding, at which time we filled out his planning worksheet with details about the wedding and also our editing preferences and then submitted it, and that was it! Matt showed up earlier than our contracted start time on the day of the wedding and took some video of my bridesmaids and I as well as my husband and his groomsmen getting ready before the ceremony. We opted for a 2-videographer package just before the wedding as well as a copy of all of the raw footage. I can honestly say that Matt and his assistant did a wonderful job of blending in with the crowd at the reception and even at the ceremony actually, because I have to admit that I don't recall seeing much of him! He definitely did not interfere with any candid moments of the wedding, and I can just recall him circling the dance floor with his camera elevated on a pole to capture all of my friends' amazing dance moves (haha!) but completely unobtrusively, which was wonderful. Within like 48 hours of my wedding, Matt posted a "First Look" video on his website, which is our entire first dance. It was so awesome to get that sneak peek while we were on our honeymoon, and only makes me more excited to see the video in its entirety!! I am so thankful that I decided to book a videographer, and am so happy that I chose such a wonderful company to use for my wedding! For any bride who is on the fence about whether to book a videographer or not, I would wholeheartedly say Do it!! You get something from the video that photographs just can't transmit.