We chose Toast Videography as the Videography service for our wedding based on how we felt about their gallery of videos of some of the past weddings they have covered. We really fell in love with the look of some of them, and the price was rig...ht, and they were available for our date! We had a Zoom call with Toast before we booked them, and afterwards felt confident that they could handle what we were looking for out of a wedding video, and that it would look great and we’d be happy with the result.
Toast sent us a pretty comprehensive questionnaire about a month before the wedding covering lots of details about locations, timing, priorities, bridal party, family, music choices, etc. They sent us an email the week of the wedding with the details of the videographer that would be actually covering and shooting the wedding, with all their contact info and details.
Michael was our DP for the day and he was a great guy. He introduced himself and we felt comfortable with him being around filming us, right off the bat. He was everywhere, capturing everything. He was a pleasure to have alongside us documenting every special moment of the day.
One of us works in film/tv and the idea for the videography for our wedding was that for cost purposes, we would just have it filmed, but not pay for an edit(s) rather, just have them send us all of the raw footage on a hard drive, and we could edit it ourselves on our own time. Unfortunately, Toast doesn’t offer a package where they just send you the footage - the cheapest/smallest package they offer is a 1 minute teaser edit, so we paid for the teaser video. The contract said that the teaser would arrive one month after the wedding. We got an email about a month after the wedding from Toast, saying they needed a few more days to finish the teaser edit because they have been so busy, which was not a big deal for us because we didn’t really want the teaser anyway, but was semi-frustrating since our expectation had been set that we were getting one. About a week or so later, we finally got a link to our teaser video and it looked great! It made us excited to see the rest of the footage, and to be able to edit our own video.
The option to have all the raw footage sent to us on a hard drive, costs extra so we paid for that - but the contract also says that they don’t mail it to you until 3 months after the wedding date. However, we did receive our hard drive with the footage about 1.5 months after the big day. Ultimately, we would recommend them for your own wedding celebrations.