It’s been really exciting to be shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the 2012 Wedding Industry Awards, mainly because the judging was based on the detailed comments and testimonials from our previous clients. Forty of our lovely happy SIY couples took time to fill in the questionnaire and reading their comments brought a tear to our eyes. As long as our clients are happy…we’re happy!
Here is what our couples have to say about us:
“Andrea and the team were so helpful and caring throughout the whole process. The instructions make it so easy to do. Furthermore you can tell they really care and are truly passionate about wedding. I live in Australia and they still helped us out immensely. Our video couldn’t be better. It shows the fun, excitment and love of the day. You couldn’t get a better video with a truly caring and wondeful team as you do with shoot it yourself. I will and have recommended them to all our friends and family.”
“Absolutely brilliant, so much better than the professional videos we’ve seen and so personal because friends were filming. Our favourite memento of our wedding day by far and we’ve recommended you to everyone we know who’s had a wedding since. It’s our first anniversary in 2 days and we love watching the video even now!! Xxx”
“Shoot it Yourself is such an amazing company with such friendly staff and I actually got married on the same day as Andrea, one of the girls who owns the business and she and I got on like a house on fire chatting away a lot on the phone prior to the wedding and the service on the day was so friendly and detailed and the finished product, amazing! I’ve had so many compliments and would happily recommend S.I.Y to all my friends and family!!”
“Everyone that watches our wedding best bits says it is the best wedding video they have ever seen as it is fun, short and entertaining to watch. The videos were very easy to use.”
“Amazing from start to finish. Very prompt efficient responses to questions/queries. All the kit arrived when promised, and with comprehensive instructions on how to use them. The final result was amazing, everybody who has seen our video thought it was amazing. Definately a must for any wedding if you really want an amazing keepsake.”
“We think this the best company EVER and would use it again and again if i could afford to get my vows renewed Again and again 
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“Shoot-it-yourself were really helpful the whole time we were planning to use their services. As we were married on a Bank Holiday weekend – and the other side of the country – they were very accommodating with us picking up and delivering the cameras which would have been tricky otherwise. We also didn’t get as much footage as we had hoped as one of our friends who was helping was out of action but Andrea stepped in to the rescue and managed to help organise to make a great video using stills and other photos that we had of the day as extras. I cannot recommend her and shoot -it-yourself enough. I love watching the video and am really proud to show friends and family rather than forcing them to sit through hours of footage of the backs of our heads and apologising for the boring bits – there are no boring bits!!”
“We fell in love with the brilliant idea of an unusual wedding video. Everything went great, was slow getting the finished DVDs but I think it was teething problems.”
“This product is awesome, better than spending the money on a photographer. It is really a 21st century system, its great to send to friends/family and everybody else that couldnt make it. And it is all easily sent on dvd for the same price as some photo’s. I have also recommended them to every one of my friends who is getting married.”
“We LOVE our wedding DVD. It is so personal because your loved ones are involved and capture so many funny moments and in jokes. The 15 minute montage is perfect to remind friends and family of the day or show to guests who couldn’t make it. I think i have already watched it 10 times including on our recent anniversary and it fills you back with the feelings of how special the day was.”
“We love our video along with so many other people, it captures so much of our day that a regular video would never have done, they did a brilliant job editing it all, it’s more amazing then we could have hoped for, so many laughs!”
“Nothing was to much trouble for these girls. I had a minor issue with my bridesmaid dresses and Andrea bless her heart was using a needle a thread to sew them in while I was getting ready. Now that’s out the box thinking service for you. We also had a small problem with our DVD’s 10 months down the line. Andrea and Becs sorted within a few weeks, so again brilliant aftercare service!! Good luck Shoot It Yourself team.”
“Shoot it Yourself were absolutely brilliant, the wedding video was just how we wanted it – fun and unique and not at all formal. Their service was excellent, constantly keeping in touch and answering any questions I had promptly. I can’t recommend them enough!”
“Andrea and Becs are super friendly and helpful and we ended up with a great wedding video.”
“Thought the concept was fantatstic and completely original and exactly what was right for me and my husband. I couldn’t fault the service!, always remained professiona,l great at communicating with me. The finished result was more than we could have wanted, it came quickly and was of a high standard, everyone loved it!!”
“Andrea and Becs were helpful and professional throughout all correspondence, and Dan was brilliant on the day. The end product exceeded our expectations in every way. Everyone who has watched our wedding DVD cannot believe the high quality of the finish. Simply superb.”
“Shoot it yourself offered an alternative to the standard videographer service that we weren’t keen on using. We were very pleased with the service. The final video is excellent and we received loads of positive comments from others who viewed it. We have already recommended them to at least one friend who used them at his wedding and was also very pleased.”
“Becs and Andrea are just so friendly and helpful and the videos are a real alternative to anything else out there, it’s a brilliant company.”
“After struggling to find a videographer that produced the type of video we wanted and didn’t cost an fortune, we had made the decision to have a friend film our wedding for us. When I found Shoot It Yourself a month before our big day I was SO pleased, it gave us the best of both worlds we could have the people closest to us filming (with good cameras!) and then have it edited to the finish of a professional wedding DVD. A family member and my bridesmaids filmed for us all day which meant we felt completely at ease, the guests knew them so were more willing to chat; they knew the shots we wanted and came up with great ideas like burger cam and MTV Cribs! The best thing was we could do what we wanted without being tied to someone else’s schedule and could have lots of fun! Andrea and the team were brilliant, they gave us ideas on good shots for the day, were friendly and always there to answer my (many) questions beforehand! Even though the Shoot It Yourself team weren’t at the wedding, their editing captured the atmosphere of the day perfectly. Our ‘best bits’ are brilliant http://vimeo.com/12071629 I cried, smiled and laughed all the way through them!! Our friends and family have loved watching them and because it’s online those who couldn’t make the day and who live abroad have been able to watch them easily. We absolutely love our wedding DVD, it’s a great way to remember the day, it’s personal, unique, fun and so us! We’ve got a wedding DVD we’ll treasure forever and never get bored of watching (nearly 18 months on from our wedding and I’m still watching it all the time!)”
“The Shoot it yourself product exactly matched what we wanted for our wedding. We had 3 days of celebration so we were able to film over the whole weekend. The tutorials before getting the cameras were great, when they arrived everything was so simple to put together and use. And when we got the final product we were over the moon. We have the most amazing memory of our wedding weekend that is so individual, and most importantly it was edited to well it perfectly captured the mood of the whole weekend. We literally cried with happiness watching it back.”
“The team behind Shoot it Yourself are without doubt some of the loveliest people you will ever come across. They are helpful and responsive and talking to them was addictive. The service throughout was second to none and the finished product didnt disappoint either. We had so much fun with the cameras on the day and being able to use them the day before and after too gave us something noone else could offer. Our DVD is perfect and all viewers have been left with an achey face from smiling so much! AMAZING and GENIUS!”
“Very good idea and made our video interesting for others to watch”
“We were thrilled by the personal service provided by Shoot it Yourself and have enjoyed our wedding dvd countless times over the past ten months!”
“This company was fantastic from start to finish! The service they provided was outstanding and the final product is utterly unique – it has made all my friends and family laugh and cry and my husband and I have been able to re-live the most special day of our lives again and again. I would highly recommend them – not only are they excellent value for money, they know what the bride and groom want, are there to answer all your questions in both the build up to the day and afterwards. Nothing is ever too big or too small. They were, by far, my favourite supplier of the day – and we had some pretty amazing people helping us make our day perfect!”
“An innovative and exciting way to ensure we have fantastic memories of our day, the team were helpful and friendly from the moment we met them and this is one of the reasons we booked them, communication was swift and painless and even getting the finished product was fast. The Quality of our video is fantastic and it is very well put together. Overall a fantastic service that I would recommend to anyone time and time again (in fact I already have!)”
“Even on the morning of the wedding, I was able to contact Shoot it Yourself and ask questions about the camera, even though they supply you with a very detailed and comprehensive booklet of how to set up the cameras and what to do and not do! I booked Shoot It Yourself the year they were established, even though my wedding was a year and a half away, I developed a great relationship with Andrea, Becs and the team who were always able to put me at ease and answer my questions, which were always answered within about 24 hours of me sending the email! Since our wedding, I’ve recomended them to three couples who have booked them after seeing our wedding DVD. My husband and I feel that the money we spent on Shoot it Yourself was the best money spent for our wedding! We absolutely LOVE our DVD and have watched it SOOOO many times! Shoot it Yourself deserve this award as they have worked so hard to make an amazing company which is unique and offers a top class service to couples who want something that reflects what their wedding day ACTUALLY was like! Everyone should have a SIY wedding video!”
“We have ended up with a wedding video that we can show to all our friends and one that we will always treasure. Compared to other videos we have seen ours has been the best.”
“We booked Shoot it Yourself after some friends used them as we loved the fun and energetic videos they create. So many professional videographers produce cheesy montages of couples looking longingly at each other with some soppy song playing and we knew we didn’t want that. We had also been to weddings where it was tricky to even see the couple during the important bits due to the photographer, videographer, sound boom man etc surrounding them, and we wanted our day to be captured as it happened rather than orchestrated or directed – it’s not a performance. So, giving our friends the cameras was a perfect solution, and we love the result. There are some really funny moments which definitely wouldn’t happened in the hands of a pro, and people had a lot of fun with them. We also got to see lots that we missed on the day which was great. The team at SiY were really friendly and efficient from day 1. We had no problems at all, everything was delivered on time and they gave us opportunity to input into the final edit so we are really pleased with the result. A great new concept being executed very well.”
“The staff at Shoot-it-yourself couldn’t have been more helpful. They were so enthusiastic and the quality of the video is superb. Every wedding video I’ve seen before is too long and a bit boring and that is so not the case with ours..! Shoot-it-yourself edit it so brilliantly that you’re left with the best bits and it’s so great to watch. Ours is only 20 minutes and I love showing it to people.”
“we are very happy with our video its funny, shows the emotion of the day and well worth the money, its a great idea and family and friends enjoyed filming the wedding, they filmed everything we wanted as they know us so well. Because you get a 15 minute best bits on the dvd its great for showing to people without them getting board of a long video, everybody comments on how good it is and they even show it to their friends who don’t know us just because its so good. It was great that the video could be viewed on line as all friends and family could see it with out having to wait till we meet up with them after the wedding. I recommend shoot it yourself to everyone I know who is getting married and a friend has already used them and she loved her video too.”
“SIY made our wedding!! From the moment we met Andrea & Becs at the wedding show, they bowled us over with their original concept & lovable personalities. They were always on had to answer my many queries, & never showed an ounce of frustration. They bend over backwards to help you & put our mind at ease many a time. The concept is fantastic & getting our friends to shoot the day was something we were both looking forward to. Our friends had a great time filming & were as amazed as us with the final product!!! It is such a fitting memory of our big day & we never get bored of watching it. I’ve recomended SIY to all my friends and some have even booked them for their wedding. I’m looking forward to being on the other side of the camera. Another friend was so impressed with the editing that she is arranging for SIY to edit a video of a hen weekend. Becs & Andrea are so passionate about their business, & I really is refreshing to see, these girls are Fab & deserve to be rewarded for the hard work & effort they put in to make our days so fantastic & memorable!!!”
“SIY were brilliant from day 1! Their customer service was brilliant and everything they said would happen did! The finished video is amazing! I could watch it 100 times a day and never get bored. I spot something new every time. Thank you girls – you were fab!”
“Amazing product, service & team. So helpful & we are thrilled with the end result. Original & affordable- just what is needed in todays market. I have recommended them to 3 of my friends who have also used Shoot-It -Yourself. Andrea & Becks are very professional but still have that personal touch.”
“We really loved the idea of shoot it yourself as soon as we saw the advert in a wedding magazine and immediately booked up with them. They are such a fun company to deal with – really friendly and full of great ideas. We were a bit worried that our friends might not give us enough footage for an entertaining film, but we were really delighted with the finished film. It was great to be able to suggest the songs that we wanted in the background to the film and we were impressed with how well they cut the songs we chose to fit with the footage. Overall we are very happy with the DVDs which recently arrived – they came very quickly and are great quality. The DVDs are also cut into chapters and the guys at SIY did a great job of realising which bits would be most important to us.”
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