Book your venue first, because no other vendor can sign a contract until you have a date. Your photographer, videographer, and band or DJ come next, since each of them can only work one wedding per day. Florals, cake, rentals, and transportation can wait a few months. That order gets tested every winter. Nearly 40…
On September 20th, 2026, we laid my father to rest. While he wasn’t a man of many words, I had a few to share about his influence in my life and I think the world should know who he really was too. My father was a disciplined man. And that word, discipline, is perhaps the…
Standard delivery on your wedding film, both the highlight and the full-length edit, is 12 to 16 weeks. That’s the honest number, not a “best case” quote that gets pushed back once your footage lands in the queue. If you want it sooner, rush delivery is available for a fee. If you’re in no hurry,…
Search “questions to ask a wedding videographer” and you’ll find the same list on every site. Do they shoot one camera or two. What’s included in the package. When do you get the footage back. Copy the list, ask every vendor the same ten things, get ten versions of the same rehearsed answer.
Most couples don’t ask about backup plans until something makes them nervous. A friend’s photographer showed up without a second lens. A cousin’s video came back with a corrupted file. So here’s the direct answer: every Templeton Image wedding runs on redundant gear, a documented weather plan, and a backup shooter on call, before the…
Chicago couples looking for a wedding videographer usually start by searching for someone local. Makes sense, you’d rather not hire a stranger to the city for the one day you can’t redo. But I split my time between Baltimore and Chicago, so when I filmed Kalissa & Brian’s wedding at Manzo’s right by O’Hare Airport,…
You know you don’t want a wedding video that looks like everyone else’s. You’ve said “cinematic” in every vendor email you’ve sent. Maybe “romantic,” too. But if a videographer asked you what that actually means, pacing, tone, how much of the day gets directed versus left alone, you’d probably stall out. That’s normal. Nobody hands you the vocabulary for this before you need it.
Every videographer’s demo reel looks great. The questions you ask before you book are what tell you whether the day-of experience will match it.
You planned a wedding somewhere worth traveling for. The light, the location, the whole reason you picked it over a hometown venue, none of that survives in a photo the way it does in film. If you’re on the fence about adding video to a destination wedding, here’s what you’re actually deciding between.
Destination wedding videography typically runs $1,500 to $3,500 above standard package pricing, covering flights, lodging, and gear transport for the full shooting weekend. That range shifts based on location, trip length, and how many days of coverage you want beyond the ceremony itself. For couples planning a wedding outside their videographer’s home market, this is often the single biggest pricing question, and the one vendors are least transparent about. Here’s exactly what goes into that number, and wh
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