Hello again - I’m going to write a few tips over the next few days about selecting a videographer - hope to help all of you pick the right videographer for you!
If you’ve read a bridal magazine or a “plan your wedding” book or guide (I’m guessing this is most of you) you have probably encountered a list of questions to ask when you talk to a videographer (as well as questions for photographers, etc.) Thought I’d address some of them. (In writing below, “you” are the bride/groom/person planning wedding and “they” are the videographers you are interviewing, and “we” is me - Miriam at Omaha Wedding Video).
(Note - source of questions - Omaha World Herald Wedding Essentials and “The Knot” website)
The most important question, in my opinion, is what style of wedding video do you want (cinematic, documentary, etc.) and do they produce this type of wedding? If you have your heart set on a dreamy, elegant wedding movie, be sure that you’re not going to get MTV - and vice verca! We produce all types of wedding videos, and take our directions from you as far as style, music, etc.
Does the videographer belong to any national or local associations? Have they won any awards? We have not personally won any awards yet - but submit work for judging twice a year to the 2 international associations to which we belong. We do hope to win an award someday 
but we don’t just sit around “hoping” - we are actively pursuing this goal by attending workshops by some of the best videographers in the US - the ones that are winning the awards ! We push ourselves with every wedding we do to do the best work ever - every wedding is our best wedding - and someday that plaque will come home with us. We have started a local videographers assocition (our first meeting was in November) to help improve videography in Omaha, to educate videographers and brides about what is possible and how to attain it.
Have you done a wedding at my (church/hotel/venue) before? This question is a kicker, which is why I put it here. Most of the time, our answer to this question is “no”. There are a lot of churches in Omaha - and many venues other than churches !! But that is why I put this in here - do not be discouraged or concerned because we haven’t been there before. We’re professionals, and this is what we do - go where we haven’t been before and do what we do all the time. We talk to the minister/church coordinator/etc., establish where and what we are allowed to do in their church/venue, and that is what we do. If you like a videographer’s work, don’t be overly concerned about this point. The next airplane flight you take - the pilot may never have flown into Denver before, but he knows how to fly an airplane and all airports work basically the same way.
More FAQ coming soon!