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Your Wedding Video is Customized ... intro movie footage...
Wedding Day Highlights for a Lifetime of Viewing!

Chicago Wedding Photographers & Videographers

Personalized & Customized Wedding Video Services
You Imagine it .... We Create & Produce It!

CUSTOM WEDDING VIDEOGRAPHY PACKAGES

Call 630.416.6843 for Viewing Complete Wedding DVDs - Multiple Cameras
!

Customized Personalized Services, your music selections and special cinematography effects are our specialty, assessment & planning interviews | at time of consultation appointments and again prior & after your wedding. We wish to please every bridal couple. We are honored when we are chosen to capture your wedding.

Design your own wedding videography package through options!


Special Effects Editing
We automatically include this as we are promising you a cinematic wedding production, usually 2 - 2 1/2 hours. This is our artistic bend and experience. Our wedding videography packages add digital special effects you have seen on network TV. Some of the special effects we may use could include slow motion, freeze frames, multiple videos transparently moving, elegant dissolves between clips and photos or still graphics framing a moving image.

Custom Music Editing
You supply us with music to be added to the tape with any preferences listed in terms of order of appearance or sequence.
Traditionally, we ask for 12-15 selections on a CD.

Reflections - Look Back Slide Show for Reception
We will capture courtship photography at your engagement portrait session or otherwise. We place music you select to create an emotional retrospective reflections and look back at your younger years and courtship. Includes music, titles and can include special effects. Generally 100-150 photos with 2 musical selections.This can also be shown as a big screen projection at your reception. Photos can also be incorporated into your Love Story. This piece typically goes on the start of the wedding video.

A custom-produced "Love Story Video" | A popular supplement to your wedding day coverage

Love Story of how you met & fell in love is entertaining & enjoyable to watch. How your relationship evolved leading up to your wedding day. A Love Story Video is creative and reflective of your personalities, individually and as a couple. A wonderful enhancement to your reception entertainment. You have a great & special story to tell. We produce them with music and shot on-location. Can be shot indoor, or outdoors. Include family photos if you wish. Imagine seeing your own Love Story unfold on the big screen at your reception, sharing it with all of your guests and future family .


Edited Memories,
perhaps for your wedding thank you notes | Your entire wedding day, ceremony & reception highlights, edited to the song of your choice. Crisply edited piece, 4 minutes or less. This typically includes slow-motion, black & white, etc. You can put this on a CD/DVDs and send to your family & guests | part of your thank you!

Ceremony Highlights (Edited Memories -- Shortened Recap)
This condensed version of your ceremony consists of highlights, preceremony, processional, readings, vows, ring exchange, candle lighting, sign of peace and recessional. This is meant to make longer ceremonies more watchable and reduce “fast-forwarding”. A full version is also provided which includes the entire Ceremony in the Diamond and Platinum Packages. Must be selected before editing begins.

Sensitive Highlights Recap. Usually around 10 minutes. Most couples who get a recap will watch this more frequently than their full-length wedding video. Considered by most bridal couples a wise investment, 10 minutes vs. 2 hours, allowing your friends and family to watch it often. Many couples give the highlight recap video as a gift to members of their bridal party, parents and grandparents.

Premier customized DVD

Your Wedding Photography is captured as a photo montage with music background | Most Chicago videographers do not provide this option. Think of viewing your wedding album on screen anywhere with music with a DVD player!

Interviews/Special messages of love and best wishes (bride, groom, bridal party, parents, grandparents, friends) We can ask your important family and friends to share a special memories of the bride and/or groom. We can capture the bride and groom saying something to each other, when the other is not present.

Narrations by you. You can be interviewed before and after the wedding. Your answers to questions we ask are dropped in as a voice over in your footage. Think about listening to the grooms first feelings & thoughts when he sees you in your wedding dress for the first time. We can combine with your processional as you are coming down the aisle or in a private meeting place prior to your ceremony. Your father and mother talk about his/her feelings during your first dances with her/him; you are able to hear these precious thoughts as you watch your video of the two of you dancing. Heart felt emotions of those you love, captured on your wedding day .

Childhood Pictures (25)

This is very popular and begins your tape with dissolve transitions inserted between each photo moving & cut to music.

Additional Stop Coverage
If you wanted to stop at a park between ceremony and reception we will accompany you.

Credits | Bridal Party Names & Family
The names of your bridal party & family can be added to the end of credits of your tape. You supply us with a list of names prior to the wedding.

Honeymoon Pictures (25)
This is added at the end of your tape with dissolves between each photo. They will remind you of the wonderful trip where you went and memories of what you did. Again cut to your choice of music.

Presentation of the Photo Montage for Big screen
(Screen, Projector, VCR/ TV) Equipment Rental is your responsibility, but we will work with vendor.

A relaxed “recording” of your courtship memories, dreams of the future. Off-site of your choosing or our studio (includes “estimated” cost of large screen)

Ceremony Day Options
(Per Hour Rate of $200.00 for 2 cameras )
• Coverage of the Rehearsal Activities
• Preparation, Highlights Pre-ceremony, Behind-the-Scenes Coverage. Off-site Park stops.
• Coverage of multiple locations

Rendered to Fabulous Heirloom Deluxe Premier DVD: Authoring up to ~120 minutes, 12-18 chapter titles, slow moving images/video, MPEG coding, Surround Sound, Dolby Digital, 2 DVDs giving 120 minutes, elegant color & B&W photos on jeweled disc, case; Addtn. DVD copies

This is a CUSTOMIZED DVD WITH SLOW MOTION RECAP, personalized with DVD's content highlights, titling, chapters, customized B&W & colored photos on packaging.


All Wedding Videography Packages come with
:

• 1 to 2 videographers at the ceremony
• Two to three 3 Chip Digital Video Sony Cameras, (excellent in low light); 1 lux
• Complete editing suite capabilities using Final Cut Pro, award winning software, & DVD Studio Pro.
• Professional dimmable lighting with softbox, in the darkest reception areas
• Several UHF wireless microphones (for best audio) up to 500 ft.. (Can hear a whisper from 2 blocks away!)
• Professional concert stereo, short shot gun microphones for interviews
• Video and Digital Stills skillfully set to Audio cut to the Beat
• Photo Montages (Digitizing of photographs)
• All aspects of computer graphics and titling
• DVD (presented in a personalized case - customized chapter titles are available)
• Back-up cameras & additional equipment are brought to every wedding

Options to Highlight your Customized wedding videography package
• Reflections Look Back for your reception .... this is beautiful and our couples love this for their guests.
• Love Story Video: This is done before the Wedding Day. The video combines couple footage in a park, lake front, etc. combined with personal stories from the couple (how you met, first date, proposal, etc.)
• Bride's preparations before the ceremony
• Childhood & dating photo montage customized with choice of music; Digitizing of childhood photos
• Wedding & honeymoon photo montage customized with choice of music
• Closing Credits of wedding party and Family/Friends who participated
• Highlights Recap of Entire Day
• Photo Montage session: either at the ceremony site or additional location
• Your choice of music throughout the video (you provide the music)
• Rehearsal dinner coverage; also available for weekend coverage
• We can travel to your wedding destination location
Contact us for Custom Pricing Options. Joan and Paul are considered to be one of the personalized, customized and highest quality videographers in the Chicago area. Their award winning photographic and creative video capturing skills combined with 16+ years of video & editing experience in weddings & special events is used to create your Fabulous Heirloom Wedding DVD!

Call us today at 630.416.6843
or email us at jkaliher@smsdesignplus.com to make an appointment to view our work of complete events, not just “best of videos”.

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