What do you include on your wedding DVD?

[Alan Robinson]

It depends on the package. With my lowest priced offering, I do the ceremony in it's entirety, a short cocktail hour montage, Entrance of the bridal party, first dance, parent dances, toasts and blessing, cake cutting, bouquet and garter, as well as a short (3 to 4 minute) montage of the general dancing. The video ends with recap set to music. Length is typically 1 to 1 1/2 hours.

With the higher priced packages, I do a short form edit (20 to 40 minutes), which includes the bridal prep, ceremony highlights, first dance, shorted versions of the parent dances, highlights of the toasts, and dance montage. While I am not doing heavy "time shifting", the edit has some non-linear elements (i.e. I will use the toast segments as connectors between other reception events, or as a voiceover during the ceremony). In addition to the above, the client also gets the complete ceremony, and main reception events in their entirety as extras on their DVD.