Tips and Ideas for Getting the Best Photographs and Footage of Your Wedding

Getting the perfect pictures of your wedding day is probably one of the most important things about it. Photographs and footage really are one of the few things left over from your wedding that last a lifetime. Not only do they act as a powerful piece of visual and sensory memorabilia, but they can also help long-distance or unwell family members to get a true representation of your big day. There's nothing like showing your grandchildren the photos of your wedding or showing friends who where unable to make it the beautiful footage that you managed to capture. Whatever method that you are planning to use to capture your wedding, it’s definitely worth checking out some of the options that we have outlined below. They will help you capture the magic of your wedding day the way that you want it to be captured! Plus there are a range of ways that you can undergo DIY wedding photography too!

Professional Photographers

This is one of the more popular ways that you can capture your wedding day. Inviting a professional photographer means that you are guaranteed great photos every time. Professional wedding photographers have the right equipment, play with angles, arrange your guests and even edit the final images for you. This really is a tried and tested way to ensure that you have the perfect imagery of your special moment.

Top Tip: A great way to personalise your wedding photographs is to ask someone in your family to take photos for you. You can get some great camera deals by using discount promo codes online. This way you can get some more personalised professional photos from a member of the family!

The Rise of Videography

Videography is a relatively new and hugely popular way to capture your wedding. Video helps people gage things about the wedding that photography simply cannot. These features are as follows:

Sound: Photographs are inherently unable to give you a true representation of the sound of your wedding. The band that you carefully picked out, the piano playing you down the aisle and the wobble in the groom’s speech as he places the ring on your finger are just a few things that wedding videography can pick up that photographs cannot.

Movement: Maybe you love the way that your dress moves around your body or maybe you want to capture the way the grooms face changes from surprise to adoration as he watches you walking down the aisle. Either way movement is another magical thing that video can pick up for you.

Easy Shareability: Sometimes we want to share our wedding with our loved ones via social media. This can be tricky to do when you have hundreds of amazing pictures of your big day. One the easiest ways to overcome this is by investing in a wedding videographer. Not only will they capture the footage for you, but they will also compile it into one neat edit that summarizes your big day. A video is much easier to share with friends and family members on social media than thousands of photographs!

A View From Above: Drone Footage

This is another spectacular and relatively contemporary way that you can capture your big day. Whether you are getting married in a manor, the woods or the steps of your favourite museum, drone footage can capture a truly beautiful aerial image of your wedding. Drone footage is especially good for outdoor, countryside based or architecturally significant locations. The aerial footage can be chopped in with other pieces of footage to give your wedding video a truly fairytale feel!

Crowdsourcing Photographs

This is one the least well known but greatly effective ways of gaining great images of your wedding. You will have to get every one of your guests to take photos of you at a particular point - when the confetti is being thrown for example - and then round up all of these photos. This will give you a range of angles to work with. You can then create a montage of images that can be creatively put together in order to reflect the power and beauty of your big day! You can even pick up a load of disposable cameras to give your guests to ensure that you get a range of photographs to remember your big day by. Use online DIY wedding information to find great value disposable cameras!



Overall there are plenty of things that you need to think about when deciding what kind of footage that you want on your big day! Whether you want traditional photos, a wedding video, drone footage or a crowd sourced compilation of images, we’re sure you’ll find the best option to suit your desires!