We got married at Rock Island Lake Club in November of 2023 and used Live Picture Studios as our videographer!
Let me start by saying that videography was the last vendor that we... booked because we weren’t 100% sold that videography was something that we needed. It wasn’t until I thought about having the video of the ceremony, the speeches, and the dance with my dad years from now that convinced me. I knew I would want all of that to watch when some people who attended the wedding were no longer with us.
Live Picture Studios was one of our venue's recommended vendors as they have filmed there multiple times. Their basic package had everything that we were looking for in our price range, and we liked their very clean and timeless editing style. They were extremely communicative throughout the process and had a video conference with us about a month before the wedding to talk about the itinerary for the day and review everything. When there was something that I wanted swapped in our timeline for the day, they were very quick to adjust it for us. Afterwards, I had to reach out a month after we were told our hard drive with the raw footage was shipped because we had not yet received anything. After reaching out, we received our hard drive only a few days later. Not sure if it just got lost in the shuffle, but I am glad I reached out again.
While our videographer the day of was extremely kind, I will say that all day it felt like he was a step behind our photographer. Our photographer would pose us or have us do something else for a set of photos, and our videographer would realize when we were done that he should have recorded what we did, so then we would have to do it again. It wasn’t a huge deal, but just something that I noticed. He did get all of the important shots and moments in the end, though I feel some of them were not as crisp and clear in the highlight video.
That being said, overall we are happy with our highlight reel and received a hard drive with all of our raw footage. I plan to have it edited into a longer video for our one year wedding anniversary as a surprise to my husband.