No. The SIY package includes online video tuition on how to film the wedding day and an easy to follow 'shot list' based on our experience in making TV programmes and editing weddings. You are paying for our industry expertise and broadcast quality video cameras, which also means that we can guarantee a certain level of quality from our finished videos. If you do have footage that you'd like editing, we work closely with a professional editing company, www.penrosecreative.com, who'd be willing to give you a quote.

When we first started, we did offer a service called our Hire a Director package which involved having professionals there on the day to film the wedding video for you. Due to the success of our Shoot It Yourself packages we no longer offer this service as we believe we're able to make better wedding videos if you Shoot It Yourself!

Our packages start from £749 and include the hire of the video camera equipment, tapes, tripod, video tutorials and all of the editing. For a more comprehensive breakdown of our prices, check out our Prices and Packages page.

We absolutely love destination wedding videos! The video cameras have to sent to a UK address and can be carried on as hand luggage by either the bride and groom, their friends or family. Our tripod is also light and will easily pack down into a small suitcase. Our prices include the hire of the video cameras for 4 days however if you require them for additional days, we charge £40 per camera per day. You are able to add this as an option on our online booking form.

We do offer a separate package for Asian Weddings based on hiring the video cameras for the whole week prior to the wedding to film all of the 'pre wedding' events. Check out our Asian Wedding Video page and get in touch for a more personal quote.

You can hire our services for any event! We're branching into birthdays, special events and even corporate. Get in touch for a quote here

You won't be able to make a booking through our booking form if we do not have availability for your date. If the form allows you to select your date, the good news is that we have cameras available. This is updated daily so if you are keen on having Shoot It Yourself at your wedding, we recommend that you get in there sooner rather than later as our cameras do tend to get booked up well in advance.

We are the only wedding videography company that offer a Gift List service which allows friends and family to make a contribution online towards your video in return for a credit in the finished DVD. Click here to find out more.

All of our bookings are done through our online booking form. If you have any other questions about our service please do drop us an email through our Contact Form. Please note that we do not accept CHQ's however we can take payment over the phone if you'd prefer. You can check availability by selecting your date from our calendar on the booking form.

We ask for 50% of the total cost of the package at the time of booking (this secures the date) and the remaining 50% three weeks prior to the wedding date. Deposits are usually taken online via our booking form and the final payments paid either by BACs or over the phone. We'll send you a reminder 3 weeks before the wedding date so that you don't forget!

Once you've made a booking, you will be sent a contract by email with a copy of our rental agreement. You are essentially hiring very expensive equipment from us so we require 3 forms of proof of address from one of you to meet the terms of our insurance policy. This can be in the form of a driving license, utilities bill or phone bill and can either be scanned and emailed or photocopied and sent in the post. Please do not send originals! You will also be sent the link to our online video tutorials which show people what to film and how to film it.

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Everything you need to know about filming your own wedding video is covered in our online tutorials which you'll be sent the link to when you book. You'll be able to share this link with all of the filmers and it not only covers the basics of operating the cameras but also what to film and how to make it fun. An invaluable source of inspiration is of course our previous wedding videos, which can be watched on our blog.

The cameras that we have chosen are broadcast quality but have been chosen for their simplicity. The cameras are preset to 'auto' mode so all you have to do is press record - they are MEANT to be operated by people who have little or no experience of filming and they produce great footage even in low light. They have up to 400 minutes of battery life (6 batteries included) and directional top microphones that pick up sound much clearer than standard home video internal microphones.

We own two types of video camera. The Sony A1e's still use tape and the MC50's use memory card, although both are broadcast quality HD and are aimed at the 'pro-consumer' videography market. We have chosen them for their ease of use, compact size and robustness! Unfortunately we cannot specify which cameras you will be allocated until the week before the wedding but our online video tutorials show you how to operate both.

We do all that we can to ensure that our video cameras arrive in good working order and are tested and the batteries fully charged before they are sent out. One of the benefits of sending the cameras 2 days early is that your filmers can have a practise to make sure they're comfortable with using them. We are always on the other end of the phone if they have any questions and in the event of technical problems with the cameras, we will do all that we can to help. We recommend you send the link to our online video tutorials to your filmers in advance so that you're not worrying about how to use the cameras before the wedding.

Hiring our video cameras is no different to hiring a car. The cameras are insured by us in case of theft or damage however there is a £250 excess, which is payable by you, should we have to make a claim. We do of course allow for wear and tear but if the camera looks like it has been dropped or suffered an impact of any kind, we will need to send it for a full service which you will be liable for and any missing bits of kits will also have to be replaced.

Since we started in February 2010, we've never had an unhappy customer. So long as the camcorders are assigned to a few people who are your closest friends and are willing to do the filming, it won't be terrible. We're confident that even with a very limited understanding of cameras, we can show people how to film your wedding video to make it fun, not just to watch but for those filming it too. It's not as difficult as people would have you believe. However, it is your responsibility to make sure your filmers takes their role seriously - if they don't film it, we can't edit it!

Fortunately for us, weddings tend to follow a similar chronological order ie you get ready, get married, have dinner and then throw party! We are meticulous in going through all of the footage and making sure that we not only pick out the obvious shots of the vows and the speeches, but all the in-jokes, personal messages and comedy dancing that goes on without you even realising. It is however down to our creative license what actually makes the finished video and with our background in MTV and BBC3, we know what we're looking for.

You are allowed to chose all of your own music and tell us where you would like us to use it. We have to buy a Limited Manufacture License for each wedding that we edit from the PRS for Music. This licence grants us 'blanket' permission to legally use any music in our DVDs so the sky's the limit! We send out an edit questionnaire 3 weeks before your wedding day which allows you to chose your songs and also provides us with the names of your venues and where you would like your finished DVDs to be sent.

The video that we upload to our blog is final. Making changes to video is not only time consuming but highly labour intensive and involves 3 hours of exporting, compressing and uploading again. We do have very high standards when it comes to our editing however if you would like the option of making changes after you've seen your video online, you can pay extra for this on our Booking Form

Your ideas are everything and the more ideas you have for how you would like it to look, the better! We'll send you an edit questionnaire 3 weeks before the wedding asking you for a list of all the songs that you'd like included in the video and the names of your venues. If you have opted for freeze frames and additional graphics there is also a section for you to add photos of the main wedding party so that we can pick them out from the footage.

Once your video has been edited, you'll be sent a link to your own unique page on our website. This will have a brief blurb, the video and the option to purchase for DVDs for your friends and family. You and your friends can also comment on the video through Facebook without leaving the page and post to you wall.

Your finished DVD will be broken down into chapters. With all of our packages there will be a chapter for the "Best Bits" (15 – 20 mins), a chapter for the whole ceremony and a chapter for all of the speeches. The total running time does also depend on how much you have filmed but a rough average is between 1hour – 1hr ½ for all of the chapters combined. We do also give you the option of additional chapters for video diary messages or the day after, check out our Prices and Packages page for more information.

You get 1 copy of the finished wedding DVD in the post and additional DVDs are charged at £25 each. You can either order these when you book online or decide later down the line once you've received your DVD. We also create a unique web page for your video on our site which you'll be able to share with friends and family. There will also be the option of ordering extra copies of the DVD from there too.