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Wedding Day Highlights for a Lifetime of Viewing!

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Platinum Wedding Videography Package Special | ALL INCLUSIVE!

Based on Diamond Wedding Videography Package PLUS
............ Our clients love this one!

• Highly Edited; Usually 100 hours of cinematic production editing.

Customized Personalized Services, your music selections and special cinematography effects are our specialty, assessment & planning interview 30-60 days prior to wedding.

• Features “3 Digital Cameras”, 2 manned, 1 unmanned for ceremony. Sony Professional 3 chip DVCAMs, low light sensitive, equipped with stereo and wireless microphones. (500 ft. capacity)

Edited Memories 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!

Loaded with Special Effects, cut to the beat in the edit suite. Digital transitions, multiple video, personal graphics, photo montages all skillfully blended to background music.

Love Story of how you met & fell in love is entertaining & enjoyable to watch. a popular addition to your wedding day coverage, custom-produced "Love Story Video." Love Story video is done before the wedding day. Romantic couple footage in a park or lake front combined with personal stories from the couple. How your relationship evolved leading up to your wedding day (how you met, first date, proposal, etc.). A Love Story Video is creative and reflective of your personality both individually and as a couple. A wonderful enhancement to your reception entertainment. You have a wonderful 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 . Can be shown at the rehearsal and/or reception along with baby, childhood & courtship photo montage.

Additional location shoot (park of your choice) or Rehearsal Dinner before your Wedding Day.

Includes 3 DVDs , edited memories, fast moving clips, like network TV.
(Additional copies available) View our Premier DVD Packaging
2 - 3 Hour Production


Diamond Wedding Videography Package | FAVORED BY MOST BRIDES & GROOMS

• Highly Edited; usually 80 hours of cinematic production editing.

Customized Personalized Services, your music selections and special cinematography effects are our specialty, assessment & planning interview 30-60 days prior to wedding.

• Features “2 Digital Cameras”, both manned by professionals for ceremony & reception. Sony Professional 3 chip DVCAMs, equipped with stereo and wireless microphones. (500 ft. capacity) Two cameras with second videographer is included in the cost of your wedding package. With two videographers, you get footage of the processional and the bride with her father before she walks down the aisle. You also get the faces of both the bride and groom during the vows. Reaction shots from the bride & groom and guests throughout the day are easy to give to you. Professional Lighting Systems that are dimmable only for darkest reception areas.

Experienced, precise and detailed camera professional videographers, without being intrusive. Recorded in stereo, blending documentary style with cinematic digital special effects creating a fabulous heirloom video.

Beginning with special effects, beautiful slow motion video, your wedding invitation, computer generated graphics and titles.

25 childhood pictures,. Childhood photo montage customized with your music. This can also be shown as a big screen projection. Your Love Story incorporates our award winning photography & video. We place this at the start of your wedding video.

Pre-ceremony Coverage begins at the bride's home, church or other location bride will be getting dressed. Bride & Groom preparations before the ceremony. Fun, creative and personal video captures these moments with the ones you have chosen to stand with you on this sacred day. Getting ready, putting on your dress, jewelry, veil and the groom dressing in his tux. Fun moments with your bridal party!

Ceremony in it's entirety. 2 - 2 1/2 hours of cinematic video, highly edited, Catholic mass will run 45 minutes to one hour followed by photo session, cocktails, reception, etc.

• Selected shots from your Receiving line (Church or Reception) edited and set to your choice of music.

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 with music!

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 .

Introductory titles of you, your wedding date, locations, invitations and graphics

Highlights of your entire reception (program/toasts,first dance, bouquet & garder toss, cake, others you specify) (2 Cameras manned!)

Credits | Naming each wedding participant and family members.

25 Honeymoon pictures completes your production

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.

• Yields 2 - 2- 1/2 Hour Fabulous Cinematic & Heirloom Production!

State-of-the-art non-linear editing facility results in changing an “ok wedding tape” to a “Fabulous Wedding DVD.” View our Premier DVD Packaging. Customized Photos & Titling, Beautiful Slow Motion Premier DVD!


Gold Wedding Videography Package

Highly Edited; 40 hours of cinematic production editing.

Customized Personalized Services, your preferences, music selections, and some special effects. Planning interview 30-60 days prior to wedding.

• Features “2 Digital Cameras”, Sony Professional 3 chip DVCAMs, equipped with stereo and wireless microphones. (500 ft. capacity) One camera is manned. Professional Dimmable Lighting Systems for only the darkest reception areas.

Entire ceremony

Reception coverage highlights

• Recorded in stereo, this package features 1 1/2 hours of viewing time with pre-ceremony coverage at church set to music

Introductory titles and Closing Credits of each wedding participant

• 12 childhood & 12 honeymoon pictures

• Customized Photos & Titling, Beautiful Slow Motion Premier DVD available!

1 1/2 Hour Production

Silver Videography Basic Package

• Moderately Edited; 25 hours of cinematic production editing.

Customized Personalized Services, your preferences and Planning interview 30-60 days prior to wedding.

• Features "One Manned Sony Professional 3 chip DVCAM, equipped with stereo and wireless microphones. Professional Lighting Systems for darkest reception areas.

Entire ceremony (Back up Camera is used for stereo audio)

• Reception Coverage highlights

• Recorded in stereo, your videotape features approximately 45 minutes of viewing time with Titles and pre-ceremony coverage at the church set to music.

• Customized Photos & Titling, Beautiful Slow Motion Premier DVD available! View our Premier DVD Packaging



Budget Basic Wedding Videography Package

• In camera editing only
• Customized Personalized Services, your preferences and Planning interview. (Always a Back up Camera)
• Ceremony only or Reception only......





Customize through options
; Design your own package!

Packages to accomodate your personal requests, requirements and budget
All Wedding Videography Packages come with:

• 1 to 2 videographers at the ceremony
• One to Two 3 Chip Digital Video Sony cameras, PD 170s, (excellent in low light); 1 lux
• Complete editing suite capabilities using Final Cut Pro, award winning software, used in film productions. Studio Pro for your DVD rendering
• Professional dimmable lighting with softbox
• 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
• Scanning of artwork
• 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)
View our Premeir DVD Packaging
• Back-up cameras & additional equipment are brought to every wedding

Options to Highlight your Customized Video:
• Reflections for your reception.... this is beautiful and our couples love this for there guests.
• Love Story Video: This is done before the Wedding Day. Combines footage with you as a couple 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
• 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 will travel to your wedding destination location!

Contact us for Custom Pricing Options. Joan and Paul are considered to be one of the most 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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